homemade thingy for turbo oil feed
 

i made this bolt/oil fitting for my turbo when i figured out that the brass fitting i had in there wasnt actually the right size.
just found this bolt in my tool box and started in on it. it used to be 3 inches long. cut it welded it drilled it and tapped it.
i drilled 2 different size holes. ones super tiny and the other is like 3/8 or something. anyways heres the pics.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...a/DSCN2206.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...a/DSCN2204.jpg

beats going online, finding the part, PAYING FOR IT, and then WAITING FOR IT,
plus i know for a fact that this is what i need. i just dont know if its going to seal yet. it should though.

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There's always JB weld if it doesn't seal. HMT FTW.

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Dayum I was hoping you were going to use pimp ass copper lines for a feed too! :D

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you say that like there's any other way

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what turbo?

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i like how everything but the bolt is in focus in the pics

good work though

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he doesnt know what that little flower button does yet, hell i didnt know for like 2 years

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-16g turbo


-yeah the camera was on close-up mode but for some reason the flash was making it over saturated so i turned the flash off and
then with no light the shutter stays open longer and my hands had to be super steady. BUT i figured out how to get close-ups
and not have that problem anymore. ill post those later on. i got many more pics of installing.
the bolt broke when i put too much torque on it so i had to reweld it. now its super strong.

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Did you finish repairing your manifold where the oxy-fuel burned some of the stainless up?

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hahaha . oh yeah that was just a test run. since it didnt work we tig'd the whole thing up.
i later did another test on just a couple of scraps of SS to see if oxy would work on them..... it doesnt.

i should have my car up and running in a couple days after over a year of planning and building for boost.
i hope it works.

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yeah, i had talked to someone that i know can do it over the last little bit and i know you need to use a backside flux and either a stainless flux tig rod or special frontside flux. weld it in small portions at a time.

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More info on stainless flux tig rod. I have never seen/heard of it?

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there are lots of ER flux rods avalible. You just have to make sure the flux does not get under the weld post root-pass. They're used for root-passing pipe when a backpurge is not viable. ASME FTW.
R308LT1-5, R309LT1-5, R316LT1-5 & R347LT1-5
Same basic classifications as SFA-5.3 & 5.9, etc

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Intersting.

So say I am welded schedule 40 pipe, instead of back purging, I could do a root pass with flux cored stainless rod?

And then do a weave pass with filler with regular 309 filler rod?

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If you wanted but note that is NOT a SMAW (stick) flux electrode. Those are ER. This is a non electrode filler rod designed to root pass tig. Rxxxxxx
Also note that the backside should still be purged if it's in the HAZ.

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It's also likely much cheaper to gas-purge the backside with normal rods. Talking almost no argon flow VS paying more money for flux rods - that wont deposit as much material.

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Yeah, I figured its cheaper to just back purge. I was trying to get the basics of what the Flux rod is used for. I read up a little more on it and it seams as though its used in larger pipe line welding.

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there's all kinds of flux gtaw rods and gas rods. not just stainless. used for all kinds of stuff.