How much to spend to make manifold?
 

I'm gonna make my own manifold now, so do I use 1 1/4" weld els or 1 1/2"weld els? I just checked on pricing and it's a little more than I expected. $15 ea. for the T's and $7.50 ea. for the 90's. Is this a good price or expensive? $45 is more than I really wanted to pay for it, b/c by the time I get my flanges, total cost is gonna be like $95, and then I'm going to pay someone tig weld it together. that sucks.

Re:1 1/4 or 1 1/2 schedule 40 for making mani?
 

Is that in Stainless? if so that's not bad. If it is mild steel, that's a ripoff. Weld El's are $4 and T's are $10. It cost me $60 for all the parts for my manifold, but I'm using 4 elbows and no T's. Like the BMC manifolds. Then you just need a 5" section of straight pipe.

Re:1 1/4 or 1 1/2 schedule 40 for making mani?
 

I found another place that sells the 90s for $4.50 and the T's for $11.75 ea. and no, it's Mild steel. The welding place JUST called and said it would be $60 to tig/helio weld it together, sounds kinda high! How did you get away with only having $60 into it, it's gonna cost me $50 in just flanges, the head flange-$30 and turbo $20.

Re:How much to spend to make manifold?
 

if you can find the weld els (butt welds) local, they're usually a lot cheaper and you don't have to pay for shipping

Re:How much to spend to make manifold?
 

I just went to a local machine shop and am having them make a t25 flange and they are only charging me $10!, too sweet. ;D I'm gonna take off my exhaust manifold and take that down to them and have them make up one of those too, probably not any more than $20-25. so it might only cost me $128.

Re:How much to spend to make manifold?
 

damn....i spent a total of like 60 bucks on mine i think. i found an industrial supply store like 30 min away that had the ---- i needed pretty cheap

Re:How much to spend to make manifold?
 

Spent about $55 on mine and made the flanges from scrap 1/2 steel.

Re:1 1/4 or 1 1/2 schedule 40 for making mani?
 

I got the flanges here from Typert for $36 shipped. I got the weld els locally for the wholesale price of like $2.70 a piece and I got the straight pipe for free from scrap. A kickass member of this site is welding it up for me, so it cost like $10 to ship it to him for that. I sent some extra elbows for him to make a mani for welding it together for me.

Re:How much to spend to make manifold?
 

i was looking into an HMT manifold also but i can't find those elows you guys are talking about where can i get those? please help me out. thnx -mike

Re:How much to spend to make manifold?
 

www.mcmaster.com or go to an industrial or plumbing supply store