beater

I am using mild steel flanges and 304 stainless elbows and 321 stainless straight sections. I am not sure how the welds will hold when heat cycled but I will soon find out. This is my frankenstein manifold.

I will post up some more pictures tonight.

-Nick

Terrabomb

Hey,
Also wondering if you can get a few more different angles of the manifold. I'm wondering how the center peices meet the outer peices.

hondacivic00

that's awesome work!! Congrats to you. I'm attempting something like that myself but it does not look that clean. I wanted to know what size tubing you are using: 1", 1 1/2" or 2". Great work once again.

quadnie

i would personally have gone with all mild steel. I really don't have any formal education in metalurgy and I'm unsure how the difference in grades will hold under high heat.

beater

Well, I welded it up today. I am going to post up pics of the final product. It came out pretty well.

-Nick

quadnie

did you check to see if you got any warpages from the welding??

can't wait to see the final pics and critique your job man :P

beater

The weld came out pretty good. There was a little warping of the flanges, but nothing alittle milling won't fix. Rip away.

-Nick

quadnie

damn... impressive. I can see a couple spots that probably got more weld then they needed - but it's always good to over weld then underweld

I'm really liking it, looks very simple and pretty.

HMT-Admin

Im hoping that shine is from the stainless steel (bling polish) and not some mexi-chrome paint job

fatty weld on 1&2

looks good man,
jeff

beater

It's stainless. I am going to paint it or have it Jet-Hot coated (or similar). I still havent decided on it.

-Nick