Built this for my lsv street car build looking to hopfully make in the 750hp range. Ordered the core from Raffi at full race "great guy" thanks for making this happen in the time that it did. Just trying to hone in on my welding aluminum skills and not just paying for other ppl to do welding jobs for me.

 

also it was a very hard to deal with turbo placement if the manifold would have been built around the intercooler i would have had a little more options on the one side of the endtank, hence the half curved shape

 

Show the pic with the turbo positioned. That should be cool.

 

now for a charge pipe !

 

hell yea!

 

Any chambers inside the back door section to promote air flow ?

 

Hey,

Looks good, but you need to work on your gapping so that the alloy has a flange to weld to.. I've attached a picture to show how I do it, I have had 0 weld failures in my 4 years of tig welding aluminum for 4-5 hours a day

I always knock the edge off with a file when i've tacked these up then lean with acetone

 

I only have MIG, I gave up on welding Al with it but I do something similar when doing 90s like that. Instead of a complete offset I step down both pieces so that they interlock. Doing steal this way allows for great strength, no blow through, easy tacking and the ability to weld super thin sheet. As for the OP's Al work, looks purdy to me. TIG always looks nice that's for sure.

 

How are you guys getting away with such small intercoolers with the front mounted turbo setups? IMO, that core can't be rated for 750 HP, when the comparable size for a 750HP intercooler from Precision for example, it about double that size and roughly the same thickness.

 

hey tony the tiger , the core def is rated 750hp its 4.5 " thick its much bigger then it seems in the pic but it is for surly a very small core its the flow that carries the support not so much how big it is

 

you could have eliminated some of welding if you bent some of it. i'd also try to make the design a little more "flow friendly" with some transitions by eliminating sharp corners. not that it is going to have much of an impact anyway.

 

yea i wish i had a brake to make some sweet sheet bends the one bend i did do was really hard < and all by hand....

 

Please explain or show me what your talking about ?