Looking for AutoCad drawings of b,d, h, and f series exhaust manifold flanges so I don't have to reproduce them if possible. Thanks.

 

I have them.

 

haha, how hard is it to grab a manifold from a junkyard and measure it....

 

I would appreciate the drawings. When your using an automatic plasma or water jet cutting machine to make 100+ flanges just measuring it won't cut it.

 

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not hard at all, but it takes time!

 

put the time in and measure for yourself, just liek all the other guys did.

 

so basically, you want to make money off someone else's efforts? i've made all my own patterns myself from "just measuring it" and i've never had a complaint from a customer... cnc owns waterjet for quality.

 

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DID I EVER GIVE YOU THAT H22 GASKET??

 

I have them but they aren't free thats for damn sure.

 

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DID I EVER GIVE YOU THAT H22 GASKET??</TD></TR></TABLE>

not yet paul. we'll have to hook up some time so i can grab it off you.

 

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ok be patient then, the engineers from honda come on the forum once a month. They give away all the valueable information right from their own archives, drafted and all, for free...

now no one is going to give you the drawings. You are showing blatantly that you are using them for profit.

If you don't even have the motivation to buy manifolds and measure them, you shouldn't go into business producing them. Thats just pure ******* lazy. And lazy definently won't allow you to run your own business.

 

Wow, that's just blatant.

If you have the machining abilities to make 100+ flanges, then you should have the ability to do the CAD work yourself or someone who can do it for you. All this costs money and time, why would someone who is likely in the flange business give you help in competing against them?

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Gotta love honda-tech. I ask a simple question and everyone assumes that I want them for free. I was asking for availability that's all. I'm not making complete manifolds for profit, just supplying some flanges to a friend that does. I'll take the measurements and do it myself, not a big deal, but I'm definately not ******* lazy, quote/unquote. Thanks for the help.

 

ok, i got a deal for you. You supply the manifolds. I make the cad drawings in any cad format you want, AutoCad, ProE, Inventor, MicroStation, SolidWorks; I'll charge less than half the going rate that the company I work for charges for Mechanical drawings. So figure 500 a pop. So for a small sum of 2000 bucks you can have the drawings for all your flanges. PM me if your interested.

 

hey is this like an auction for bachelors? well in that case then i'll do all that, minus the drawings for $1000. PM me

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by snoochtodanooch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ok, i got a deal for you. You supply the manifolds. I make the cad drawings in any cad format you want, AutoCad, ProE, Inventor, MicroStation, SolidWorks; I'll charge less than half the going rate that the company I work for charges for Mechanical drawings. So figure 500 a pop. So for a small sum of 2000 bucks you can have the drawings for all your flanges. PM me if your interested.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'm sure its not an arbitrary $1000 flat rate per drawing like you are implying. Figure maybe half an hour measuring each manifold, and 10 minutes maybe 15 modeling each one in a CAD program. Thats 5 hours total. You want to charge him $2000? I guarantee your time is not worth $400 per hour.

 

I have some up on my website. All free of course.

EDIT: My buddies maks most of my stuff, or they are donated. Takes them usually like 1-2 hours, and they are by far not pros. If someone is charging 500 bcks per file they are rippin yo a new one. Figure 50 bucks an hour or so for a shop to make one up for you. Some might be more complex than others though.

 

Thanks for the references own6volvos, I'm perfectly capable of generating the CAD drawing myself, which I will do. I didn't realize that this was such a big deal and I apologize that everyone thinks that I'm trying to rip everyone off because that's not what I'm doing. Once again, I asked far availability, but will do the measurements and make the CAD drawings myself. There's no way I'd pay $1000+ for something that I can do, I just don't have time, that's it.

 

The entire reason why I made my site was because I couldn't find the damned t3 flange file anywhere. I was making some manifolds, and ended up having a buddy of mine make the cad file for me. Since then I made the site and freely host all this stuff to help people out who were in my situation. Its not like any of this information is proprietary or anything, its just that noone seems to ever want to help anyone out if they can make a buck off it.

 

You could always take a pattern to machine shop that has a CMM and have them do the measurements for you. Shouldnt cost that much and usually wont take very long and the best is that the measurements will be very accurate.

 

Another ting I have looked into is laying down the flange to a scanner, with a rler next to it. Then there are a few things you can do to put markers for exact lengths on the picture, then have a program do a mild trace of the outline. This ends up taking very little time. Only problem is that 5 and 6 cyl manifolds are out of the question because they are too long