I work with different types of metals for my employer and I'm thinking of designing a custom intake system built out of aircraft grade commercially pure titanium/high heat resistant material, I also work with inconel, titatanium and it's alloys, nickel alloys (very strong material), stainless steel, and alluminium alloy. I would appreciate much of your input on what works and what doesn't and this is my idea..

I'm still confused on which angle I would like to bend the 2" raw titanium tubing with a wall thickness of .028 thousandths of an inch, I was thinking that if I were to use a 90 degree,3radius bend it would be too much and would cause restrictions in airflow, maybe a 90degree,6rad bend would be better off starting from the intake manifold, this is just off the top of my head assuming that I'm going to use it in my dseries d15b7(POS). and the rest of the bends I'll find out when I look under the hood of my eg8.

my other ideas that I'll be building with a coworker

header system built out of .035-036 high heat resistant titanium with tig welds, and flanges cutout from the water jets, or either by laser, I have experience in assembling and fitting parts within a .030 thousands of an inch tolerance, and I'll be able to weld them together, I'm not a mechanical engineer but I'll try my best building the tool for fit-up, and designing the actual prototype in autoCAD (which I barely know how to use), unless somebody here who has experience in autoCAD and knows how a good header system works would like to design one for me and my co-worker to build, that'll be very well appreciated, thanks.

 

From our past experience it's not a good idea to use titanium for a header, it's going to crack! What is the difference in this high heat resistant Ti how do the properties change if so it may be something we need to carry!!

We can design you a header that will make power along with providing the collector, we don't do a cad drawing for the tubing pack layout but we do give you all the dimensions. It takes the guess work out of how to make power with a header.

As far as the intake is concerned i would use as wide a radius as possiblle we have some 2" OD .049 Wall Ti that is a 120 degree bend on a 4" radius

IF i were you i would use ALuminum for the intake and inconel if it's availbale cheap to you for the header. To my knowledge inconel offers far superior properties to Ti

Are you going to cut Ti flnages? i don't recall being bale to weld Ti to really anyhting else but Ti

The wall thickness on that ehader is quite thin for a street car i wouldn't go that thin unless you are planning on using INCO

I hope this is the inout you were looking for if you need some mroe info on ehader design and construction please see the tech article on our website http://www.burnsstainless.com

Thanks!