ghettofabulous air duct
08-12-2008, 09:54 PM
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ghettofabulous air duct
Chris decided that the turbo h22 needed a little more airflow, so I fired up the welder and bandsaw and went to work 
I cut out the aluminum plate for the front of the "intake" using the bandsaw:
Here it is after the first cut & a little bending to fit the curve of the bumper (clamped it to my welding table and pushed down, I must be gaining weight):
a little mockup after cutting the Ching Chong pipe, only ballers use masking tape when fabbing ----:
I am well aware of the fact that it looks like a shoe, I would've made the thing more tapered but there is an intercooler pipe right behind it that limits what I can do there.
after some shitty welding:
Then I went to town on the "porting", and gave myself a ton of metal splinters:
Some shitty pics of it sitting in place (it will be painted black and screwed to the bumper):
The car is on the lift so it was hard to get a good shot of it in place. Tomorrow I will make the piping up to the turbo, it was getting late by the time I got this far (we spend most of the day shipping people the wrong turbo on purpose, which leaves little time for fabbing).
I cut out the aluminum plate for the front of the "intake" using the bandsaw:
Here it is after the first cut & a little bending to fit the curve of the bumper (clamped it to my welding table and pushed down, I must be gaining weight):
a little mockup after cutting the Ching Chong pipe, only ballers use masking tape when fabbing ----:
I am well aware of the fact that it looks like a shoe, I would've made the thing more tapered but there is an intercooler pipe right behind it that limits what I can do there.
after some shitty welding:
Then I went to town on the "porting", and gave myself a ton of metal splinters:
Some shitty pics of it sitting in place (it will be painted black and screwed to the bumper):
The car is on the lift so it was hard to get a good shot of it in place. Tomorrow I will make the piping up to the turbo, it was getting late by the time I got this far (we spend most of the day shipping people the wrong turbo on purpose, which leaves little time for fabbing).
