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X-ray of welds plz thx.

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Tight fit, but pulled it off. How far will the radiator be pushed to the front? "That's the biggest front mount I've ever seen!"

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Gotta love the Weld-els!!!!

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Yep.
Intercooler piping would be excellent. Tubular manifolds are not of interest to me. Tig or mig, what ever you all use when building intercooler piping.

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Sure. We usually TIG IC piping as it is 99% of the time stainless, unless the customer is on a severe budget, then we will MIG mild steel.

Do you want to see raw welds on something? Endtank welds?

Just curious as to what you are looking for. I can have the guys go throw a bead down on some pipes to join them together, or what not.

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http://www.lseperformance.com/galler...serialNumber=1
http://www.lseperformance.com/galler...serialNumber=1

Some pics of the intercooler welding on my car after a few months of beating it up.

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Man that looks like total crap, I'd tear that apart and re-do it. Let me know if you need me to show you how to actually weld.







....JBWeld that is.

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JB welding is an aquired skill! I might have to hit you up for some lessons, as I haven't done it in years I might need a refresher course ;).

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Welding that IC was fun, inside/outside welded endtanks and in/out pipes. Then I used almost all the TIGs power to weld the endtank to the IC core, and about 4 24"x 1/8" alum. rod for one front weld. Chris came in the shop 2-3hours after I welded the IC and he said "hey you just get done welding that", It was a little hot. I will do some weld samples tonight and we will get pics up, it will be nice for the show floor anyways. So SS ic piping, Mild steel/chrome moly cage tube welds, Aluminum welding, and schedual 40 304 SS for the race tubular headers.

~John

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Yea, it's all about not touching *anything* except what you are welding together, and then as soon as your finger leaves the welding surface doubling back and wiping it with a paper towel. Pretty tough to get it right, really. If you want to do some practice JB Welding I do *not* suggest masturbation!!!

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Yea, right. Try it! The goal is to get off, before the JB hardens!

-A. Swift

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That is enough!
/topic of JB weld on this thread.

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I just laughed so hard I think I woke my roommate up.

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So when will Swanny be going publik?

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The digital camera does not want to take a good close up pick for the welds, sorry jakey. I did get some more work done tonight, pics should be up sometime tomorrow. IC pipe is done, down pipe just needs a vband, water to air is mounted now I just need to fab up the custom endtank on the intake manifold side, exhaust manifold is done minus waste gate, then the Intake manifold with a q45 TB is my next project.

~John

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Divided housing, or no?

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Yes.

How have you been?

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Running twin gates or single?

Not to bad, pluggin away waiting for winter to be done.

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I am going to try 1 Tial 38mm with a 1bar spring for pump then add another spring for 1.6bar then a MBC and turn it up untill the head blows off the block, switching fuel at about 35psi. The Tial will be just off the #2 and #3 collector just befor the turbo. If that is not enough then I will add a 2nd waste gate. Right now the manifold is divided with a divided flange and the primary runners are within 1" of equal length.

~John

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I think your cutting yourself short on wastegate on both boost control and being able to release enough backpressure. What AR turbine?

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Then I will look at a 44 or 46 Tial or similar.

~John

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Your just gonna have to trial and error w/ boost control and monitoring back pressure ratio's. Problem is if you set it up for single gate your kinda stuck w/ a single gate unless you kind find some way of cutting the wastegate runners off and salvaging the collector. Baller up and get a TIAL 60mm :-p

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"Boost control" is a realative term on this car.

Just want to keep it under 40psi.
Yeah same here. Go away snow!

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It should be easy to add another Tial off the #2/3 collector. It would just be re coating the manifold.

~John

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Looks nice John hope to see that White Nissan running again.

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Whatever happened to your talon?

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Sitting in the garage, it was good practice but I do not know if the car will be put together at anypoint. It seems that the full tube chassis with a fiberglass body is the way to go now days.

~John

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Depends if you are trying to actually run in a class though, or just run a fast time or run fast and still street drive it.

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Why is Swanny in the closet? Swanny come out of the closet.

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What in the hell are you talking about?

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http://www.lseperformance.com/galler...serialNumber=1
http://www.lseperformance.com/galler...serialNumber=2
http://www.lseperformance.com/galler...serialNumber=2
:smoking:

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Sweet guys! But how are you going to fit the 1g MAS in there?

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We have a shrink ray, patent pending.
http://content.answers.com/main/cont...px-Reducto.jpg

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Looks badass. Is there a reason for not aiming the turbo outlet right at the intercooler to give it a shorter route?

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I thought about doing that but I would have to make both endtanks custom. Then I do know know where I would put the BOV, it is a Greddy Type R so its not a small bov, Also it is a tight fit as it is with the big water to air over the tranny.

~John

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??

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I may be missing something here but isn't running a single wastegate defeating the purpose of running a divided turbine housing and manifold?

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http://www.lseperformance.com/galler...g2_itemId=3324
The waste gate will only be on the #2/3 collector, so the manifold will stay divided, if it runs less then 30psi I will be happy, race gas and track times are all I care about right now. If the boost goes low enough it will get a full pump gas tune, if not I will add another waste gate off the #1/4 collector.

~John

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I thought about that too since the IC piping ends up being rather long. It would be a biscuit to make the custom end tanks, but if you clocked the compressor cover to point up, make the IC inlet face down to join up with just a coupler, then integrate a BOV into the IC outlet endtank, you'd have it. Mucho fabrication though. Might be a good project for myself when I get GT42 upgradeitus in the next year or so. :spin:

Looks good, should be a monster when it's done.

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Why does it matter once the turbo is spooled?