I learned in my chassis fab class. Its my favorite material to weld.

I tig aluminum every day. I love switching it up and welding stainless cause of the pretty colors.

Stainless is not the norm for me, my turbo manifold was my first big project with it, I feel that is is more temperamental than aluminum and a pain because you have to back purge it.

Hey just wondering if anyone has a stock 1.6 manifold laying around?

I do.

Time to bring this one back from the dead! so I finally started my build. anyways I know you dont want to read anymore, here ya go...
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I will have updates on my web site and pricing once it has been tested. probably looking at being available after the Laguna miata challenge.

Cool stuff

where do you get the aluminum hemispheres?

You ruined my intake manifold!

Really excited to see how this ends up. I'll never afford one but curious on your early pricing estimates?

As far as pricing goes for now, my goal is to make racing affordable for the average guy. So the price will be reasonable, plus I have almost no overhead.

Thats always been my philosophy as well. Good on ya for not asking an arm and a leg!

Learning to weld FTW, cool looking so far.

I think an intake shoot-out would be pretty sweet in maybe a year.

I have been thinking of doing some kind of exchange program for the 1.6 guys, so I can have one ready to ship when I recive the old one. I will also build to suit w/ differnt plenum volumes and runner lengths to suit the needs of different set ups. This one will have a 1.7% plenum with 6" runners and will use a LS1 throtle body.

If this comes in at a price reasonable to a honda swap I'd look into it. Good luck

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Still got a few holes that need to patched up man.....

Fucking sick. I'm stoked to see the final outcome of this.

no way man thats side draft throttle body bypass! :laugh:

Looks fantastic to me. Nice job!

I worked another hour or so today, so here it is.
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