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Bad pic links. Try again.

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huh? they work for me?!

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wtf!!?! now they dont

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Ownededededed

imageshack never fails

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maybe it's because you were logged in at the time. I would like to see the welds though.

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Nice color. Clean welds. Try leaving the wire in the puddle and doing a zig zag over it...like a weave. I think you will like the outcome.

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Will do!

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Details.....Details....for those who are learning. I just bought a MIG welder but I need gas for it.

What type of metal is that? I'm have to assume that you Tig'ed it because it real flat from what I can see.

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Damn Josh just got a compliment from Engloid on his welds, I think he just creamed his pants.

Lookin good ;)

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sch 40 304l stainless. for making manifolds ;-)

Running at 18cfh pure argon.

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Tanks Mon, I jus need to ditch mi MIG welda for a TIG. I think I want to go straight to TIG instead of fiddling around with the MIG welder.

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nice, so when are you going to start selling manifolds? :P

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haha!! As long as he doesn't aim that thing at me!!!


I can tell by looking at the welds that he has gotten the heat down. That's the hardest thing for people to learn when welding stainless. It's much more sensitive to heat than carbon steel or aluminum.

From this point, his improvements will be based on consistency and puddle control. I think he's got a good start now.

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Josh, this is perfect timing. The other Josh is falling into shipping 102. Are you gonna call yourself JR-Fab? haha.

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The only reason i'm ok at TIG welding is because i have so much MIG experiance. I would admit it would be harder to TIG if i had not learned mig first. I'm not talking flux for mig either. thats a whole different world

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good job Josh ;D , I should stop by and see them in person.

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Anytime stefan, You should see the last one I did, I think i pretty much have welding these down. I can't wait to doo the collectors :-\

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i haven't seen something that shitty in a long time.....






actually they look pretty damn good! O0

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i would save the post where engloid complimented you, thats something you keep. the BEST welder most ofus have ever seen just complimented you. thats sick.

welds look great man!

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damnit i just bought a mani too ... oh well .. how much you charge for log manis ... and what kind of mani's do you make ? i might pick another up and sell the one i just bought

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Damn I have a long way to go. Did you teach yourself or was there a teacher? i.e. books, a person or both?

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I took a class for MIG and ARC .. but not TIG

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How much was your class, and how long did it take.

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It was a semester. i took it for off campus at a local CC

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304L is not for making manifolds.

PM green key resistor trick, and I will share basic metallurgy.

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share it with the rest of us or at least me, I thought he was right.

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I will, but I'm giving him a chance to be cool to me. If he doesn't hook a brother up... then he'll be real ------- sorry...
































































... because I'll cry, and it'll be his fault. :'(

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True 304 is not a good material for exhaust manifolds, but this is HMT and it is alot cheaper ;)

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Full-Race makes their manifolds out of "304"

Just not that 304.

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Even 304 is not that great. It doesn't have hi temp corrosion resistance like 321 has.

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Full-Race uses 316H FYI.

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That's more than I ever wanted to know about metal, but like a crack head :o I couldn't stop reading.

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Hrm.

A HT search reveals Full-Race Javier talking about using 304 in posts covering 2003-2004, and then Geoff posts up six months ago about using 316H in a Lovefab/Full-Ric comparo. The thread where I flamed Geoff about 304 L/H and being an asshat about basic metallurgy of garden variety SS, circa a year ago when they still used 304, seems to have been deleted.

*yawn*

It's Full-Race, like I give a ----. I send the baller kids there to buy T67 at a good price, beyond that I don't care much one way or the other.

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Who ------- cares if its 304l or 304, the god damn ---- is cheap and was designed for plumbing... but hey it works just fine for turbo manifolds.

faggot

and nice work josh

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Low carbon ss starts corroding real ------- quick. Remember my boy Todd? One PA winter was all it took to visibly wear 304l or 316l. Normal or -h coped. Like usual, I am talking about something I have seen IRL.

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Lol.. JD we should make your dream manifold. k

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I'll email you a quick sketch if you want.

It'll be perfectly useless to you, as I won't be including the math for the CD orifice sizing, and ejector exit shape. Which is okay, as my math is perfectly useless until I get some pressure vs power logs and fine tune sizing. If you are interested, you can make the upper and lower manifold pieces for me, and I can fab the ejector inserts on my own. :-*

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JD, How much % power increase over stock do you predict @ ________psi. Please insert psi rating.

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25 psi.