finally, a new intake
 

finally got rid of the stock corrugated msm intake piece and made custom stainless one(well Tim made it). the msm IHI turbo has a small inlet, 1.875" od so we used a stainless transition from Burns to 2.5" then 2.5" out to the filter.

DON'T LOOK DIRECTLY AT THIS NEXT ONE!
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Man i need local access to mandrel SS bends. Life would be soo much better. That looks awesome, top notch work by Tim as always.

man great work...i especially like the radiator bracket ts ts ts...that engine bay deserves a shinier one

TIm, I need a tig, please advise :)

I advise you to pay me to weld for you. ;)

I have a Lincoln TIG185. The model is now a 215 I think, same thing but more amps and a 120vac outlet for a watercooler or whatever. It's perfect to learn on and works great most things I've done. You gotta let it cool down some when building manifolds (weld for a few minutes, eat a pretzel rod, weld again, etc), but exhausts it's fine. Aluminum intake plumbing is no problem either. I've done 1/4" aluminum on it but it starts to get a little tricky and the wiring at the shop can't handle the current. Circuit breakers going in the middle of a weld isn't fun.

If starting out now I would get the all-for-one which includes a MIG. My dad's old Mig doesn't cut it for what I want to do sometimes.

After I buy a house I'm going to go with the Tig375. We have one at work (my day job) and it's beautiful. I used it to make my intake manifold and the difference in difficulty welding that 1/4 aluminum was insane. It was just as easy as steel, I couldn't believe it. I'd find myself giggling in the middle of a weld. I was at 250 amps all night long and the torch never got warm. There's so many adjustment's it's incredible. The guys here use it to add aluminum to cylinder heads.......

I have only used lincoln's, never tried a miller but I'm sure they are good too.

man, i just can't escape the radiator rips. How bout this? Do a search(bet ya never heard that on this forum) and you'll see I intend to buy that $190 all aluminum rad on eBay soon.


hint: try https://www.miataturbo.net/general-miata-chat-9/cooling-issues-13604/

wow, very impressive. love the coolant reroute