I'm glad to see this new forum started on HT. I've always wanted to see what projects others have done on their own cars. Hopefully, this forum stays around for awhile and gets bigger.

Anyways, I don't have super welding skills but I think I'm fairly good. My 1990 240sx is awaiting a motor swap so I drive it to work sometimes. Well, being about 15 years old the muffler blew a hole in it.

I welded a 3/4 inch plate of steel to the muffler for now. I didn't know what else to do since that muffler wrap wasn't going to cover the fist size hole that developed.
Ignore the orange paint.. I work with only hicks and hicks only have high temp chevy orange. lol

 

this forum is going to be fun,

This is my down pipe, its not the prettiest but it is holding up after 1500 miles


ive only been welding a couple months and basically taught my self other than a few pointers from friends

 

What welders are you guys using?

 

i got a cheep 6 heat settings mig by clark it was 300 bucks with a tank and mask so it was good deal, i wanna move up to a miller

 

Buddies 2.5" ES Oval exhaust last tuesday.




DA exhaust


Intake w/ velocity stack attachment.

 

my dp

charge pipes

 

i made this colletor i dont think its 2 bad for my first try

 

Wow, I'm so glad they made this forum. We've got quite a few talented and creative people. Post more!

I'm thinking about making my own IC pipes in the future. just haven't figured out where to buy them from. Might check a few local places.

 

Nothing special, but I welded a rear trunk brace.





Welded a nut in the inside of the pipe, and used one reverse threaded endlink so that when the bar is turned it presses outward. (to get preload, etc)

Also made a rear strut bar, but don't have pictures of it yet.

 

damn that's a pretty nice collector! good job!

 

Although the photo doesn't show the finish welding, I built up adjustable upper control arms for my EF (by cutting up new Skunk2 arms).


Wes Vann

 

section to my dp


cold air intake



i need to learn tig welding...so my welds can look like the big boys on this forum.


Modified by ineedhelp at 3:41 AM 8/13/2004

 

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you always have some good DIY stuff man

 

How about this one; Stainless steel motor mount (for B18C in EF) with replacable rubber bushings.



I love building up stuff!!!!!

Wes

 

I've welded twice.

Modded the front crossmember for dc 4-1 header (88 dx w/b16)

Hit a solid brick

repaired header

 

here is a couple more shots of recent manifold I fabbed up (made another thread in this forum too).




this is a 2.5" upper charge pipe with vortec blow thingy on my personal civic.

 

My friend Princeton and I have been working on turbocharging his 96 993 Porsche..








Ill try to post up some other stuff later.

 

^ Wow!

 

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I thought 996's already came turbocharged?

 

Totally spaced the bracing bars I've been making for the last few weeks.

 

That nice work! We did ours a little different, we took off the scavenge pump so we could drain the turbos right into the valve covers. But we have to adjust the oil sump

We made this first and it worked great, just over 500hp...


But like all speed-junkies we wanted more and built this..

 

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Anticipating more pictures

I've always wondered how the manifolds are braced towards the rear. Given the length and wieght of the turbo+wastegate per manifold it has to be braced somewhere.

 

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Wes I like your stuff.. its all stuff i can use,,lol

 

There are braces that hold up each turbo, the headers dont have to support anything. The 993s as well as all the other Porsches had turbo and non turbo models, this one was non turbo. we will be running two GT30Rs and a Motec M48. The engine is still stock 11.3:1 so we are only going to run 4-6 psi for now.

This is a prelude we turbocharged last year.. 224 @ 4psi.




The DP and 3 in exhaust in 304 ss





I like this forum a lot so Ill post more as I find more pics..

 

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not bad at all!! props...