i'm new at welding, i started welding about 3-4 months ago with no experienceat all before that.
i bought a ecnotic and started to mess around with steel and aluminium and decided to go ahead and use my car as a guinea pig lol.
At first i thought ss was easier than aluminium but my ss welds look like **** and i ususally have to go over the welds with just the torch to look better lol, any help would be appreciated.

 

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Dam, thats a crazy turbo manifold

 

Pics aren't close enough to really tell you anything. Is it backpurged, hows your penetration? Did you bevel the manifold, build it in a jig? Lots of things can mean good or bad. From a distance it looks acceptable, aside from some cold looking areas. Guess you'll find out when you run it.

 

Wow is all I can say...

 

it was welded on a jig and backpurged some of the welds i had to go over cause they didn't look that good, kind of a gray color and i'm gonna make sure i put some brackets holding the turbo i dont wanna lose it half way down the track lol.

 

are thouse end tanks big enough? i don't know if that i/c is gunna work like you want it to

why did you walk the cup?

 

i like walking the cup on my welds, i like the way it looks :D

 

impressive man... if i were you i would be stoked with that work...

 

what's walking the cup? i'm new at this, is it when u go over your shitty welds to make them look halfway decent?

 

thats great work for 3 months welding

 

thanks. i find aluminium easier to weld then ss for some reason, if it's nice and clean. i alsohave a hard time getting color on my ss welds. ive been reading alot of other peoples posts and have been working on it, but they still come out like a gray color. i'm using #8 cup.

 

what's wrong with the way the intercooler was made? ive seen a few k-series run an intercooler like that.

 

very nice work my friend. nothing like DIY.

 

i saved alot of money by doing it myself, if it cracks, ill weld it again lol...

 

I like it! It's almost abstract art.
How many non-professionals are as commited as you to fabrication?
Keep it up.

Walking the cup... http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/...g-the-cup.html
I've never done it though, nor am an expert, nor do I tig often. I think it's the pattern of laying the "coins". I think it's when you're rolling the cup on the rim, resulting in a staggered pattern. I guess, you get more coverage.

 

walking the cup is when you roll the cup side to side, usually for lagre dia steam pipes...

i just thought it would look allot better like this

 

wow! that is nice, i can't do that, i need a steady hand to do that.i like when u get those kind of color : ) i'm gonna keep learning more, cause i wanna start doing a new manifold for my s2000.

 

i forsee those endtanks blowing up like ballons and eventually cracking, but a+ for doing all the work yourself and taking on that much of a project. how long did the manifold and intercooler take?

 

I would stay with the way you are welding now! sometimes you have to freehand but you will have alot more controll if you walk the cup. Especially when you are just learning. Looks damn good for first time man!

 

Couple more months and you'll be qualified to weld submarines the way you're going.

 

Geez dude way to just jump right in headfirst lol. Most people build a log or something their first time.

 

I really dont think those will blow up with 25psi or whatever inside. Its not like its holding 200psi or something.

 

whys that?

this was from 30psi not 200...

 

Thats probably from a bad weld and pore design or something.

I think the end tanks on the intercooler will hold up just fine.
Just mt 2 cents.Anyways nice job.