my first welding on a turbine housing
 

v-band flange:
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Re: my first welding on a turbine housing
 

nice job

Re: my first welding on a turbine housing
 

good work as usual.

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Ditto!

Re: my first welding on a turbine housing
 

wow, nice job.. was there a complicated process to this or was it fairly strait forward?

Re: my first welding on a turbine housing
 

Most turbine housings are easy...The vast majority are cast steel and not cast iron. Good job, although it looks like a 2.5" flange would have worked better on that particular housing. :)

Re: my first welding on a turbine housing
 

it is getting a 3" dp, hence the 3" v-band.

as for welding cast, i preheat the whole casting on my hot plate for an hour or so to get it nice and toasty, then i use 309l filler.

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damn, that looks nice. if i send you my housing with a v band set will you do that along with my d seies intake flange?

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Then there would a seal and possible leak for the 4bolt flange and a seal and possible leak for the vband.
with the 2.5 to vband youd want a transition so take the 4 bolt flange, transition, and vband flange and thats going to move the dp out another 3" or so. This way is cleaner and less work.

Re: my first welding on a turbine housing
 

that looks good. I have done it a few times, and has worked verry well.

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yeah ---- can we get a group buy on this or something, i wanna go v-band O0

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That thing looks tits great job!!!

Re: my first welding on a turbine housing
 

Looks great! So what are the chances of one of us cheap kid's doing as good as a job as that? Might not look as good, but what does it take to make it reliable? I have a 140amp mig and I can get a tourch.

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What is the best material for the flange on this application?

Re: my first welding on a turbine housing
 

Whatever happened to Engoild? I'm sure he could pickout something wrong with those perfect welds

Re: my first welding on a turbine housing
 

Cant tell you what the best material would be but i can tell you what was used here

http://store.racing-solutions.org/3mistvbfl.html

Re: my first welding on a turbine housing
 

wow :o hella impressive!

-Luke

Re: my first welding on a turbine housing
 

hahaha I know. Engloid was nuts! :S