yeah just bought an oxy acetylene welder
 

old school style but thats all i know. im going to do my downpipe with it.
ill post pics of my homemade mani soon. it was tig welded though and not by me.

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JUST A FEW PICS FROM THE FAB

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1st: i realized after the fact that i shoulda started with the collector. doh.
2nd: oil filter relocation kit. oil drain in lower part of pic and pressure sending unit.
3rd: saab intercooler with piping. looks like it will be fitting pretty snug (esp with the civic radiator and fan. not pictured)

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funny you spent so much time on that long runner aiming at nothing?

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Fram sucks balls - go buy a Wix. :y

Good luck with that collector. :S

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I must concur... Fram is garbage. Have cut open a few different ones ive used and the fram is a joke. The K&N ones are good, the mobile 1 ones are ok..... Wix as I remember were better than fram but not the K&N

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hows that welder working for you?
i was thinking of getting one, but right now i'm just leaving birdshit welds with my chinaman hf flux core welder.

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havent tried it yet. still no striker or hood. great deal though. everything for 90 bucks. with victor torch and guages.

yeah the collector is super gay on this one. first one though.

and as for that fram. it was just there at the time to block oil from draining. never used it with the fresh motor.
and its still isnt boosted so im not in too much danger. yet.

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purolator ftw

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Wix/Pureolator (same thing) Or denso filters.

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brush those joints well like a whipped n¡gger before you finish welding it to make em prettah...


And its alot easier to weld the runners if you break it back apart right when you get the runners oriented for the collector. make sure you don't forget that and weld the collector or runners on. ;)

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too late for that. this pic is a little outdated. ugh.
i wish i woulda done these things though. woulda made life a lot easier.

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lets see some updated pics im dyin to see that collector finished

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oh man. i tried to oxy weld the collector to the pipes. they are two differnet kinds of metal i think.
even though i ordered ss on both, the collector is super thin walled metal. the heat was just
blowing through the thin walled stuff and not flowing well at all. everything else
was welding nicely. i dont think its going to
work. back to the drawing board.

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post a pic and mail it to me.

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sure. ill will get one out soon.
i just went to IMS and got a great deal on some metal
they gave me this mild steel 1/2 inch plate for free that is big enough to make
a whole extra flange out of. plus i got about 3.5 extra feet of ss pipe
thats about 12g. so that should work better than what ive got on there.
and im working at a whole new angle on the collector.
ill post pics once im home.

oh yeah almost forgot...i only paid 12 bucks for that piece of ss

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is that a 4age?

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yes rebuilt. lower comp. for turbo..... whenever that happens

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took a while but here they are.
my welding didnt work well. broke them off and still gonna tig the collector on.
we'll see if it works. 16 gauge is super thin but im gonna support the collector.

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HHH you manifold has herps

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na man don't use that. cut all that nasty out and weld patch pieces in.


honestly, what i would do is use a die grinder with a cutting disk <if you don't have a die grinder insert dremel with stacked, superglued fiberglass reinforced cutting disks here> to cut all that bullshit out. then cut your flanges flush with the good material of the runners instead of some bumfuck overlapping ----. then patch the gaps.

just be sure to do it a section at a time so it doesn't fall apart lmao

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^^^
pretty confusing explanation. are you saying basicly cut the runners in half. and rebuild it.

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No Im saying cut out all the gay looking ---- on the collector in red. Then go back to your little green pedals you've sliced and cut those off.
THEN do your tacks with it butt welded (don't try that slip fit monstor gap gayness). Cut out afew pieces to fill your big gaps and you're tits.

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That make more since?

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ooohhhh. much more sense. i got it. why is butt weld better than my overlap jobby job.

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oh yeah and the lava rock weld is coming off for sure. i never planned on keeping that. hahah

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your alternative is to bridge gigantic gaps using a method prone to overheating and warping everything in the process of using it. adding like 5-15min of work tops to make it less messy. plus itll make alot of the gaps you have now somewhat smaller and easier to bridge.

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Damn you where off to a good start but now :-X.

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hahah. you think....
i think it was the start that effed it all up. i started it backwards.

ok so i grinded all the lava rock down. and started trimming the ends of the collector so it will butt up.
this seems like it might be a little better.

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it looks like you have the oxygen turned up a little high

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i have the little blue flame nice and small. thats how i was always told to do it. its probably more of a flame to metal distance problem.
but i was also told you shouldnt try to oxy on SS. so when i do my dp (mild steel) we'll see if its any better.


i also ended up chopping the ends to butt up against each other and weld them that way. it seems to be fitting much nicer too. :D

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First you need to learn how to safely do this........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnlot0r1qhk

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now i want to fill up a 20 gallon trash bag and use that trail of brakekeen to light it trick.

If only your ears hadent exploded... that video could have been really awesome.

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almost finished pics coming soon.

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lulz those guys are my friends.

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heres the updated pic. sorry took so long.

now im doing the dp with my oxy welder.

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Can we see close up of the collector patch job?

It looks too good from what it was. :P

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heres the close ups. sorry it took a while.
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Better than I thought it would turn out! Looks good.

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thanks but i cant really take credit for it since my buddy welded it for me.
ill show my welds on the DP which is turning out pretty chunky...as far as welding goes

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Heh, don't worry about it man.

That ---- just takes straight up practice.

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looks like my turbo project is going to be delayed due to a blown head gasket...
or a bad oil pump that caused a blown head gasket. or something. this sucks