any sound clips, by chance?

Dan, some of the most impressive stuff I have seen on here! +1

I also for got to ask what mufflers those are

Tried subbing using thread tools. Didn't work. Posting to sub. Sorry.

Not on the car yet, finishing the boost bits today.

Mufflers are an Xforce generic straight through.

XForce is an aussie company made in china i believe, they also make the varex variable volume muffler.

Update

bracketry to stop this fitting being under vibration stresses.
The oil pressure sender screws in through the hole and tightly secures the whole oil feed assembly.
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Got the flex in.
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Oil return fitting welded in.
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Turbo hidden down there, I love hard lines looks so OEM.
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The cover shots lol !
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I love this last photo, long live the A-Dub :)

Dann

the lower tab of your intercooler is in shock and awww.... lol

I love your MR2

Thankyou, finished and boosted tonight.

Needs a tune, the owner (not me it was a job) is amazed that I was right, its quiet, very responsive and almost as quick at 7psi as the blower was at 17psi, untuned!



Still a little heatshield buzz im sorry needs more bending :), I tried to tuck the mufflers WAY up and its just a hair from the shields.

Dann

nice vid bruh.

LS1 alternator bracket:

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Designed with a pivot point so that the alternator can serve as a belt tensioner with the addition of a turn buckle between the block and lower part of the alternator.
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Just went out and fitted the intake to it and the BOV (recirculated).

Pics as usual on my facebook page but here they are.
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Did a quick street tune at 15psi, it had a 17psi supercharger tune on it, so it ran but need to be richened up a LOT and a fair bit of tweaking, we left a lot on the tabel but it pulls around 30% harder than the blower was at 17psi and all the way to 8000rpm.

I would guess 200-210whp.

The intake utilises the factory aribox which is very quiet and works great.
Dann

So there's a local guy selling a Lincoln Precision Tig 225 for $1200 on craigslist. What do you think? It's a bit more than I want to spend, I was hoping to find a used tig for ~$800.

Buy it.

And budget 500 for gas before you are any good, and then be a hektik pro welduh :D

Dann

That's a pretty good deal, buy it.

they are pretty good. try it out to see if it works. some of the precision lineup have bad control boards and their amp control knobs can malfunction which needs a whole mobo replacement.

I just sold my good condition Precision 185 wih cart and foot pedal for $1,600 after holding out for the right buyer.



onto more fab...with my new everlast Powertig 200DX. it seems to be a much nicer unit and with dual voltage it was $1,300 Canadian +taxes and shipping.


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^that better not be a N/A 240sx. One of the most annoying sounds in the world is a straight piped N/A 240sx

That's not a 240.

Good work.

I've read good and bad things about Everlast/other chinese welders. If I can't find a good deal on a used Miller/Lincoln and get impatient I will probably go that route, since it's just a hobby.

I picked up my Lincoln TIG 175 for $850 last fall. Deals on TIG welders seem to be few and far between.

Yeah there's also a squarewave 175 for $950 which includes everything but gas. Decisions decisions.

Mine came with the gas and it was a steal. Honestly see if you can talk him down a bit on the 175. It is a great machine to learn on. Once I realized that I needed to make sure argon was turned on at the torch, I was laying down beads within a few minutes. Without argon you will just make big holes in the metal.

This thing sits in the garage at work and is used maybe once every 2 months.... I think it's about time I learned how to weld. Maybe I will practice and make my own 3" stainless exhaust lol

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lol Squarewave 175 guy's first message to me was 'Sure but the price has to be firm'.

Listen dude I can see that nobody's touched it in the week and a half you've had it up there, I can wait. I still have 4 more weeks to go in my welding class.

Which btw I will try to remember to take some pics this time. 4 hours in last week and I was already making some decent looking butt welds. Been working on my feed hand this week with a $0.25 dowel from WalMart.

One depressing thing about looking for used welders is googling a potential unit, and seeing someone talk about picking one up used in 2005 for $300 less than it's listed today. WTF don't these things ever lose value?

I got my Lincoln 175 square wave for 900 with a small gas bottle. It was easy to talk him down a bit since I was like 18 when I bought it. I think that was a sweet deal. Also, I like the fact that it hasn't depreciated, so I can sell it for 900 also.

First weld's I ever did.... first time on right, 2nd time on left (After a few helpful tips from the guy I work with). I might keep practicing for a few months and maybe eventually I can make my own exhaust!

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That exhaust was on a 1JZ twin turbo JDM Toyota Soarer.

I also just painted the bay for the guy.

Fresh paint makes the bay look minty... But it doesn't fall under fab work.

Day 2 of class: https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1365466815

I think that one's not enough filler. I got some 1/8" dowel rod from WalMart, perfect for practicing the feed hand.

Also that was a bit too much arc length. Arc length, fill speed, torch speed. I can get 2/3 100% of the time, and all 3 about 30%. Next week will be moving down to 16 gauge.

Somethings wrong with the gas, or the setting on the machine.

You shouldn't have any of that brown stuff around the welds.

Nope, and that's one of the reasons i buy new.

Could it be that it's not very thick metal? It's maybe 1/4 inch steel... You can actually see the weld from the bottom. No idea I'll read up on the settings and see if I need to adjust anything lol

The thickness of the metal does not matter for what you are trying to do. I have to agree that I don't have enough gas going and that is causing the browning.

Hmmm I will check it out next time and see if I can get it without causing the browning. Thanks guys :bigtu:

Could be dirty metal also, impossible to say from the photo.

Dann

That could definitely be it! Didn't have a wire brush handy so didn't get to clean the metal before hand

If you want sex spec TIG welds you need to start with perfect stainless and clean with acetone just before the weld, every single time.

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Dann

Keep it on topic...

I made a turbo heat shield out of a polished stainless steel sauce pan, a dremel, and beer.


I really hope the wife isnt going to recognize it under the hood, or that it is missing.

It might be confusing when she mistakes your engine bay with the kitchen.

I tried to type up something clever but all I can do is lol.

Funny, coming from the no. 1 poster in the cooking thread :party:

I have one of the NEW Everlast Tig 200DX's and love it. The new one has preflow and better pulse settings. The main advantage is the Amps are set with a dial on the front of the machine with a LED window reading instead of at the foot pedal with no LED read out. I paid $1100 for it, I think they are 12 now though. I did alot of research and the Everlast as far as I could see was by far the best for the Money. My local welding supply wanted 3400 for a Miller 185 without half the features. I would highly reccomend this machine. And by the way get the biggest bottle of argon you can afford because the gas gets ALOT cheaper as the quanity goes up. I started with a 92 size bottle I think it was and it cost $44 for each fill and didn't last very long, went to a 249 size and it cost $69 to fill and last forever.

I think i might get one of them Everlast tig machines for the house. I have the super over the top Miller at work, for anything heavy duty i could just use that. Plus the new 200DX machine has an optional water cooler (not sure if i could live without that) and 240v hookup is great. I almost want to get it just to see how it compares to some of the best, because that's all ive ever used.

Thats where I use mine. I've used the Lincolns and Millers and this one well weld with either one of the same amp rating. To get all the features on either of the others, you would spend 4 times the money. I didn't get the water cooling as I didn't want the hassle of all the extra stuff to hook up , nor do I need it as most of my welding is on my Miata or light duty. If I was going to be welding heavy medal, especially aluminum I would get the water cooling. Great unit and Customer service, they sent me one of the out going models with the amp control knob on the foot pedal and no preflow by mistake and man they 2 day shipped the right one out and sent me a return shipping label to send the wrong one back before getting the wrong one back. Beware also the units on Ebay and Amazon for less money are the out going models. Buy from Everlastgenerators.com

Dammit you guys are not making this easier on me. I think we need a "which welder should I buy" thread so we stop crapping this one.

I've been happy with the miller though when you try to do high amp stuff when plugged into 110 the results are poor. It lets you turn the knob up to 125 when plugged into 110, honestly anything requiring over 100 ends up coming out like crap no matter what you do. I really really need to find the time to wire my garage for the proper 220 outlet.

i just upgraded to the miller diversion 180, ran me under $1900 out the door with the dust cover.. my miller 160 was 1200 when i purchased brand new... try shopping around local, online, or other weld shops within your distance your willing to travel for a deal. might just find a floor display unit that needs to be sold sooner..

Usually school discount can knock off a few hundred bucks at your local welding supplier too.


Before we all get banned for off topic(whatever the hell that means on this site), this is the only most recent picture i can find of something i made.

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i made enchiladas.

I'll encourage discussion on techniques and tools used, but off topic refers to responses to spammers and general non-fabrication BS.

Case in point, Braineack's brilliant post above.

i think we should have a fabrication forum on here, similar to honda-tech. it helps from having 200 pages with welding talk mixed with people projects. Maybe have sub forums for welding and machining

I think custom fabrication doesn't mean JUST steel. So in a way, that's a good idea.

On the other hand, this thread is only 15 pages.

I would update the fab thread almost every day with pics and info, so I give a huge plus 1 to the idea of a fabrication subforum, and I know there are a few regular fellas who would get in on it too, Id love the opportunity to share and learn .

Dann

I started a thread and shared some of your ideas in the suggestions section to get some discussion going on a potential fabrication subforum. I figure the discussion is more apt to fall on the right eyes over there.

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I'm above the law.

Here's my first ever welds:

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and y8s fixing the holes I burned:

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Who wears gloves welding?! The sorta guy who wears gloves changing oil I bet.

I am pretty sure I have seen you post saying you wear the big heavy leather glove from HF on your hand that holds the TIG torch just so you can rest it on hot metal.

I can not stand wearing a glove on my left hand with the filler rod.

I wear a tig glove on my right with a tig finger if I need to rest my hand for support, works great, nothing on the left. They say the glove is not only for heat but for radiation protection, so I wear one.

I wear tig gloves on both hands. I wouldn't have hands otherwise. Though when just tacking stuff I'll go raw dog.

I've had the back of my neck get burnt just from the light reflecting off a white wall behind me. That's how strong it is.