Here is a pic of a log manifold I did for a customer that was waiting 2 months, overall I think he should be happy with the outcome.
This manifold was fully backpurged

This just goes to show that good things come to those who wait....
Yes I do not make manifolds as fast as many people (each log takes me 6 hours to build) but as you can see alot of time and effort go into each into making sure they are perfect. Yes there are still the letters on the wg tube, I had acetoned it after the pic to clean that off
If this is how good my log manifolds come out, think of how good my $1000 top mounts come out, hopefully this will be a bit inspiring for those who are still waiting for their orders

-James


Modified by JG-Fabrications at 12:27 PM 3/15/2006

 

Not bad man. any pics of the turbo flange area?

 

nope sorry no other pics, i just took that one for a new pic for my website
-James

 

Looks good man.

 

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im all about quality over quantity

 

As always looks awesome!

 

Very nice.

 

ive gotta be a noob here and ask, why is there two flanges. one for turbo, the other for.......wastgate?.
it seems kinda strange having it right by that cylinders exit point, its gonna lose half/ish exhaust force out there instead of to the turbo.

 

Very nice looking welds man I weld for a living and mine are only ALMOST that good

 

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it seems kinda strange having it right by that cylinders exit point, its gonna lose half/ish exhaust force out there instead of to the turbo. </TD></TR></TABLE>

why even post if you have no idea what you are talking about...seriously

 

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it seems kinda strange having it right by that cylinders exit point, its gonna lose half/ish exhaust force out there instead of to the turbo. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Seriously, don't post at all.

 

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it seems kinda strange having it right by that cylinders exit point, its gonna lose half/ish exhaust force out there instead of to the turbo. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Don't worry, we all gotta start off somewhere.

It's for the external wastegate. Some turbos do not have an internal wastegate, like the factory turbos (14b, etc), so you have to place the external wastegate somewhere. Placing it near the collector (or in this case, close to the turbine flange) will ensure that sufficient exhaust energy is diverted away from the turbine to prevent boost creep and keep a tighter control on boost levels.

 

Looks nice, the three beads across the log itself look undercut. I'm new to TIG welding, are those undercut and is that really a problem?

allen

 

It looks like he did those by walking the cup, and cameras have a habit of making welds look undercut from less than straight on angles.

 

Those welds look better than the ramhorm you just did.

 

Very impressed, you do nice work.

I was looking on your website and you have a "ramhorn" for sale that is 1,000?

Don't you think that is a little pricey considering your competition.

Notenot knocking the product,just curious)

 

oooh, those welds look like they were so carefully done. You can see so many beads in them!

You are taking a good phylosophy,
the harder you work on your earlier works,
the better your later stuff will be.

If you spend lots of time effort and concentration now, you'll be able to work much faster in the future but still produce equal results.

 

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I was looking on your website and you have a "ramhorn" for sale that is 1,000?

Don't you think that is a little pricey considering your competition.

Notenot knocking the product,just curious)

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I have over $600 in materials in that manifold, it is not a cheap pipe fitting manifold that can be built for less than $200 materials like all my other competition....
-James

 

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I have over $600 in materials in that manifold, it is not a cheap pipe fitting manifold that can be built for less than $200 materials like all my other competition....
-James</TD></TR></TABLE>

Like I said, I wasn't knocking your products, b/c it seems you are a stand up guy with something to back it up.

Just curious what your thought process was...

 

at least the manifold you made for him has the runners crimped at the head flange. i had to grind the sexy *** weld just to bolt mine up..


your stuff looks nice though. and i wouold buy again so dont take this as a hate post.

 

man that looks sweet, I think that made me decide what log manifold to order.

 

looks good but if it takes you 6 hours, why did it take 2 months to make it for your customer??

and I don't get why people who have their own business and are excellent welders make posts about grading there welds, yes it looks good, you already know that

you want feedback, get customers there products faster!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by C1V1C &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">looks good but if it takes you 6 hours, why did it take 2 months to make it for your customer??

and I don't get why people who have their own business and are excellent welders make posts about grading there welds, yes it looks good, you already know that

you want feedback, get customers there products faster!</TD></TR></TABLE>ok do you realise how long six hours is? say your working 9 to 5 with a hour break... thats seven hours... aka it takes pretty much a day to do one manifold... so say if you have 30 orders to fill and you work mon-fri... well you do the math. I personally beleive that their is nothing wrong with waiting for a great product like JG-Fab is offering... with some exceptions like OneFab for example... 10months is way too long to wait but yea you get the idea

(this is onePOINTsix talking... forgot to logout)

 

I really don't care if it takes 2 months, as long as the customer knows that when he orders.

I just can't stand these showoff posts like this one. Its fine to show stuff you've built if your providing useful info for others. But I don't think this is the right place for companys to make posts like this to advertise their products.