FD budget..ish track day build

DieselDakota · 03-30-2015, 01:09 PM

I went back out after supper. I managed to close up the gap pretty good on the one runner by fooling around a bit, still a bit of a gap but not nearly as bad. I didn't manage to stretch the other runner much better so I fooled around and centered it.
From the start I knew I would be laying a ton of weld between the pipe and both flanges, this will be because I will grind the flow path smooth and I will have to build up at least past were I intend to grind, this is why I didn't care a lot about the flange fitments, I would have liked them better but I was getting tired of just wasting time.

So once I was happy with all the fitment I tacked everything together so that I could do a test fit tomorrow with the turbo on the car.

here is some pics. I really should have wire wheeled it before tacking it up, it looks so bad now. I'll have to make sure not to forget that when it comes apart for the final welding. I'm pretty confident it will fit just fine, now I'm trying to find some welding friends who will help me with the important bit for some beer etc.

looks good after some machining. not pretty but it will be strong and work good. the turbo is going into a pretty tight space and it was hard to test fit, I was fairly confident it wouldn't fit after machining. I was however happily surprised. it fits and now its onto fabricatinging the exhaust.

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03-30-2015, 01:09 PM	#11
DieselDakota The Newbie Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 29 Rep Power: 0	I went back out after supper. I managed to close up the gap pretty good on the one runner by fooling around a bit, still a bit of a gap but not nearly as bad. I didn't manage to stretch the other runner much better so I fooled around and centered it. From the start I knew I would be laying a ton of weld between the pipe and both flanges, this will be because I will grind the flow path smooth and I will have to build up at least past were I intend to grind, this is why I didn't care a lot about the flange fitments, I would have liked them better but I was getting tired of just wasting time. So once I was happy with all the fitment I tacked everything together so that I could do a test fit tomorrow with the turbo on the car. here is some pics. I really should have wire wheeled it before tacking it up, it looks so bad now. I'll have to make sure not to forget that when it comes apart for the final welding. I'm pretty confident it will fit just fine, now I'm trying to find some welding friends who will help me with the important bit for some beer etc. looks good after some machining. not pretty but it will be strong and work good. the turbo is going into a pretty tight space and it was hard to test fit, I was fairly confident it wouldn't fit after machining. I was however happily surprised. it fits and now its onto fabricatinging the exhaust.