Any idea if its possible and feasible to mill out a v-band flange out of an old T3 cast exhaust housing? I'd like to convert a T3 to v-band, but don't want to bolt on a v-band using a welded on flange.

 

Just weld a flange on to the housing

 

What's wrong with using a welded on vband flange? Hundreds, if not thousands, of welded vband housings can't be wrong, right?

 

yeah you can mill it or weld it.. just preheat the casting if you decide to weld it and your all set

 

For the vast majority of available t3 hotside castings the answer is no. You can buy adapters or go the weld on route.

 

Whops,

A little confusion here.
I'm talking about the exhaust housing INLET. I'm interested in converting both my stock exhaust manifold and stock turbine inlet to V-band flanges.


Does that change the answer to the question?

 

I would just buy the TiAL piece.... just because it exists.

 

Machining alone will not work, welding would be in the ghetto, you need to buy the correct housing.

 

I am going to have to agree with Dave and say that you should just get the correct housing (if it is available).

 

yea go with Tial if you have an extra 1k$ laying around

 

tial housings are less than 500 around here....

 

Tial housings are like $350 ...



http://www.atpturbo.com/mm5/merchant...Category_Code=

 

which are sick as Fukkk!

 

same place i was looking lol, i just posted the high price...

 

Actually, tial doesn't make v-band housings for OEM turbos nor an OEM exhaust manifold.
Grab a stock turbo and its exhaust manifold. Instead of mating them together with bolts I want to use V-band coupler. There aint no off the shelf parts for this stuff guys LOL.


I guess I was just asking if anybodies ever done it before and how many hours they logged into it for designing and machine work.

 

wow.. sorry i really thought they wer allot more for some reason haha

 

We machined off the oddball 3.5" Vband on a s366, completely taper machined to a 4" vband and welded 4" normal (vibrant male/female style) vband on an exhaust housing in about 3 hours... The same concept could easily be done on the turbine inlet in probably the same amount of time.

Work like that is easy stuff to a machine shop that has fabricating capabilities. You should be able to get someone to do it for you for around $200 range. I wouldn't trust any yahoo that only has a 4.5" angle grinder, a few cut-off wheels and a die grinder as I would a machine shop though...

-James

 

http://www.atpturbo.com/mm5/merchant...gory_Code=VVWM

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