Finished these yesterday and welded the bungs in today, fairly happy with how they came out in the end. Would of rather redone the complete turbo setup so i wasnt constrained to the factory outlets and uppipes but oh well-

 

Looks great Keep it up

 

Looking great brother, keep it up.

 

gorgeous!

 

thank you.........up next i'll be putting together some inconel i just recieved from my tube bender as well as some thin wall 321 for some turbo setups. Just waiting on a few other things to assemble them.

 

Baller. i wish all diesel guys took the time to make this stuff. nice work.

 

Sweet manifolds!

 

How many amps/pulse/lense size were you using there? I have been trying to get that finish for a few days now!

 

i had the machine set at 150 or so the whole time since i was doing the flange welding while i was doing the runners. If i was just doing runners probably bring it down to 90/100. I usually set the amps a tad over what i'll actually be using when welding. No pulsing, all steady amps and dipping. I use to pulse when i first started welding, but after doing production aircraft exhaust work I killed that habit, and just use steady amperage and rhythmic dipping. #8 gas lense

 

very nice, i need to bite the bullet and get a tig.

 

very nice, anymore info on the rest of the set?
ive heard the 6.0s arent very reliable, at least in stock form.

 

Thanks!

Sounds like a ton of amps on the runners! Shed 10?

 

Nice job!!! Finally somebody is making pretty diesel stuff.
That looks like tubing, or is it pipe?

 

well im probably only at like 60-70 amps....machine im on isnt digital so i forget where the amps usually hover. But it can be set at 300 or whatever, just modulate the pedal. I prefer to leave it slightly above where im welding at so i have better fine tuning with the pedal rather then leave it at 300A like the 2 other guys that weld do.

 

Tubing, I tried to talk him into 321 which is what i use on all preturbo exhaust as well as inconel. But he didnt want to, boss gets what the boss wants.

But ya i dont understand the whole diesel mentality, those guys would use old rusty fence posting as exhaust and would care. The parts produced for them are horrible. As long as it makes power and blows smoke they dont really care....lol.

Trying to talk the boss into actually producing some nicely made exhaust stuff.

 

So we mounted the manifolds and then proceeded to mount the turbo kit my boss bought. And needless to say it was a pile of rusty, non fitting, oily POS. I couldnt believe someone actually ships this out to customers. So I rebuilt the y-pipe going from the manifolds up to the first turbo. I eliminated the flex sections since I dont believe in having flex sections pre-turbo unless they are of the inconel variety. So I used double slip joints to allow the material to expand/contract. I also rebuilt the dp from the small turbo to the larger turbo. I was confined to the present location of the turbos since my boss didnt want to redo the pedestal and turbo mounting locations. So I used 3.5" od tube on a 3.5" radius and made it as smooth as I could with what I had to work with. We kept the dp that came with the kit which even that looks horrible, but anyways here are some pics.

 

Also if anyone thinks the kit was bought used with how badly it looks.....this was a brand new kit even though it looks like its been used for awhile.

 

Nice work, your parts look very nice!

 

whats he doing to the crappy ford trans to handle this power? or is it a 6spd?

 

Have a fully built trans already bolted up to it.

 

the 5r110 is crappy? with a reprogram there are lots of 600+ rwhp 6.4's out there. Not to many stock trans can say that.

 

Nice work.

Tobad customer did not do up a duramax. I drive the F250 and F350 with the military all new and older models and there nothing but probs. Broken two motors and trans. Few brake fires also.

 

All my 3" wiggins clamps came in on friday. welded them on and installed both turbos throughout friday night. Finally finished at 11pm last night. Had to do quite a bit of work to get them in there. Will post some pics in the next day or so of everything in the engine bay. Hopefully i'll have some piping finished by then.

 

a long due update....

 

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