here is what I have been working on this past week, It's finally done. The car it is going in is a s14 with a 2jz swap. Here are some pics, hope you like it!

 

and a couple more, entire thing was back purged as well.

 

Nice.

 

wtf

 

very symmetrical

 

You would be good at running electrical conduit in big industrial buildings...in case the rockstar fabricator thing falls through

 

very nice. did you weld all the way around the collector joints from the runners? if so, you are a magician.

 

care to explain?

 

yes sir, the last weld took me about an hour and half to do haha.

thanks

 

yeah it's a weird design because the collector is so big there was really only one place to put it where I could still brace it.

 

pain in the *** to make isnt it ? hah

 

huge pain in the ***. I started doubting myself on the last weld haha

 

here is a crappy cell phone pic of it in the car. The pic is a little deceiving, the is actually a lot of room between the collector and the alternator. There is going to be a 90 coming off of the collector with a v-band to connect to tial hot housing on the turbo which will also be braced so that the 90 isn't supporting any of the weight of the turbo. The turbo is gonna be angled towards the front corner slightly. I might be wrong but with these tial hot housings it seems like it will flow a little better by having the same diameter tube between the collector and the actual inlet to the hot side of the turbo. My thinking is that the air will be a little less turbulent with that extra space to "straighten out" instead of it all merging together in the collector/turbo. I dunno its hard to explain hopefully someone who knows more about it can tell me if I am wrong or not.

 

 

haha so you really know what a pain in the *** it is.

 

Nice work.

What gauge/grade tubing is that?

 

thanks, it's 16g 304ss

 

Just curious, why did you not use a double slip on the collector? It would have saved you some serious welding headaches.



Like that.

Manifold looks great though!

 

i agree, i think it would be worth the extra $.

 

looks good

 

thanks, I was going to use one but the company that made that collector only charged $350, I called SPD and Burns and for a double slip it was around $800 from both places.

 

space constraints also youd need a considerable amount of straight i'd think to have it true double slip. sometimes you gotta just do a bend that goes into the collector instead of being able to have a bend and a significant length of straight sectioin.


Plus, where i got these collectors, its easily 250$ cheaper than burns and they did not offer a double slip option

 

How much would you charge for something like that without undershooting the est. Hours? How much did u bill the customer for that manifold?

 

How in the world do you guys get in between the runners to weld them to the collector? I am about to weld up the last runner on my manifold but I think I am going to go nuts! LOL. I'd shoot myself if I even attempted to do 6 LOL. Any tips?

 

when tungsten is red hot it can be bent, I have never tried any crazy angles like a 45 or a 90 but just a very slight curve helps a ton, also another line of argon was ran and flowed directly onto where I was welding. The separate line and bent tungsten were only used on the last 1/2 inch of the weld though, the rest were pretty easy to get all the way around.