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I havent been on here in a while, anyways back to the subject at hand. Here are pics of my Ghetto-Fabrication skills. Its a starion FMIC. I couldnt find a welder in the area that would work with aluminum, so I made my own input/output tubes from aluminum tubing, a dremel and JBWeld. Believe it or not, it held 10psi for over a year.

Fast forward to 3 months ago. JBWeld broke on 1 side, so I fiberglassed it (while it was on the car noless). A couple of fridays ago at the track, the other side broke. Working materials were scarce and only a grocery store was open, so I bought some epoxy, saturated a piece of t-shirt in it, and made my repair. It held vaccum..but it got me home.

T-shirt repair
http://67.33.14.41/scar/ghettofab1.jpg
More T-shirt repair
http://67.33.14.41/scar/ghettofab3.jpg
Fiberglass holds 12psi no problem
http://67.33.14.41/scar/ghettofab2.jpg

http://67.33.14.41/scar/ghettofab4.jpg
Out with the old....
http://67.33.14.41/scar/ghettofab_spearco.jpg

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now thats ghetto :o

welcome back ;)

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G-H-E-T-T-O

















I like it.

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I've seen worse (remembering a certain turbo kit we did in the 909 w/ no fuel management nor charge piping ;))

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i did pretty much the same thing except i used aluminum brazing rod, it looks much better, its stronger and all you need is a torch. the rod is pretty expensive though

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How much for the old Starion IC?
I fiberglassed a weird looking flange that was one my Y8 intake manifold ( exhuast came outta it, so I'm assuming it was an egr flange ), It works great..

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you mean how much am i selling it for? Not sure. Im either giving it to a friend who did me a big favor last month or selling it for $40 shipped on the net. If you want, I'll let you know what happens. Im half aslweep

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thats awsome use of cotton-fiber man ;D

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That's definately ghetto. But you gotta do what you gotta do to make something work. Good job! :)