Where to buy WELD EL's
 

Just wanted to know where you guys
bought your Weld Els When you
make your manifolds

I'm looking for some Stainless 90's
in sizes either 1 3/4" or 2"

I've found them for 13$ a piece, but i saw a lot online for $6.80 a piece plus $8.00 shipping is a killer.

Any input?

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i got a big tube from ace for $4.90/p about two months ago. I got another tube two weeks ago.

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Wonder who can guess what that's going to be lol!

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Your finally gonna have a solid sewer hookup on your doublewide??

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hahaha btw how much were the mats for the ramhorn or whatever you're making?

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^ mats?
^^ 3600sqft house, with another 1200sqft of unfinished rooms thank you very much.

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:S Ok, i'm lost. But thanks anyway, i ordered some from ace stainless.
Turbo bike coming soon~

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mats is short for materials

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what the hell does $4.90/p mean? per pound? well how many pounds?

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$/Piece
for real you're obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer are you???




It's going to be a set of long-tube headers + 2.5" y-pipe for a v6. Probably wind up with >$400 in it. Including a new tin of solarflux, argon refils, free flange cutting (myself on the CNC plasma, drilled holes), new bi-metal bandsaw blade :\ etc.
Saving money on filler like mad tho on thsoe elbows. What you can't tell is the OD of the elbows is 1.900", but the tube OD is 1.750" (it's not schedule-10). So insted doing some gapped one pass (or two pass if you're gay lol jk) groove welds. It's really doing some tiny fillet welds. I wouldn't recommend it for FI, but bah... NA is piss easy. Im not even cleaning the solarflux out of the welds.

I will say on solarflux tho... Engloid hates solarflux. Which means it sucks.
Personally i don't give a flying ---- if a piece goes through a turbine. I've had a good dozen JB welded intake ports chip off into intake valves and been chewed up & spit out. Not a mark even on the aluminum intake or exhaust valve seats, or piston face... And valve/seat combos are a hell of alot more sensitive than turbine blades. Saves me lots of time and money backpurging. $35 can lasted me two years. I figure most of the guys doing this stuff for a HOBBY can go through four 80-150ft^2 tanks a year. 2 tanks of that for backpurging if you backpurge everything pipe related. So call a 150 tank on average $35 for a hobby guy, that's $70-140 every two years (how long my 1lb can lasted) compaired to $35 + the cost of alittle alcohol to mix with. A little goes along way. Doesn't take a capfull of powder to do an i4 turbo manifold if you could weld it before it dries out.

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Yeah ---- me for reading "i got a big tube from ace for $4.90/p about two months ago" and then seeing a big cardboard tube full of elbows and ----. You could be a cool guy if you weren't such a ------- tool. In all fairness though it sounds like a nice project... what kind of v6?

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dohc toy.
and instead of you thinking im a tool, pay more attention ------.

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it was a stupid post that didnt make sense tool.