Tuning turbo time!

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Tuning turbo time!

yeh too late but if i go santa pod again ill do it. (also stop at the little village right near there with a road called "bell end" almost pissed myself when tomtom said "turn left at bell end")

reason I never was the que was huge and if i damaged anything id be stuck 70miles from home with a trailer (can get recovered without a trailer easy)
 
stainless pipe ordered and flanges all ordered (same grade low carbon ss) flange material is 12mm so more then enough to not warp. just need to pick it all up.

rebuilt the welder to make sure its perfect.

All that i need now is some fresh end mills, fresh drill bits, pick up some stainless wire and bottles of argon and an extra regulator.

also waiting for delivery of a external waste gate and strong flex engine mounts.

wondering if its worth designing an top engine mount to help control engine movement a bit more. get a couple of cm rock on my 8valve with sikaflexed mounts and noticed all the 16valves in puntos have a top mount... problem is finding somewhere to mount it to the car
 
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All that i need now is some fresh end mills, fresh drill bits, pick up some stainless wire and bottles of argon and an extra regulator.


I'm assuming TIG, but...........

Don't get another regulator (or bottle, assuming big bottle, here) just get a two flow guage set up from your local welding supplier -- about 15 squid. You can then use one bottle, one regulator, and do the flow through the guages. Cheaper and easier.

If, though, you'v got an oxy/CO2 bottle, you can use that for the back purge (the reason you use Argon with TIG is just to protect the electrode, rather than the base metal). Some stuff on the Miller site about advantages of not using Argon for back purge, and Miller don't faff about!
 
I'm assuming TIG, but...........

Don't get another regulator (or bottle, assuming big bottle, here) just get a two flow guage set up from your local welding supplier -- about 15 squid. You can then use one bottle, one regulator, and do the flow through the guages. Cheaper and easier.

If, though, you'v got an oxy/CO2 bottle, you can use that for the back purge (the reason you use Argon with TIG is just to protect the electrode, rather than the base metal). Some stuff on the Miller site about advantages of not using Argon for back purge, and Miller don't faff about!

not TIG sadly... using mig... had some practice and its pretty easy... point and squirt welding once its all dialed in lol

did lots of research on a mig welding forum (iirc i remember seeing you on there (y) somewhere) and it should be fine with a mig... wont be sexy like a pro TIG welder will be getting but the manifold will be costing me about £100 not £1000 :cool:

plan is to get all the bends welded and then smooth all the welds down with a flapper disc before tacking all 4 to the flanges so "should" look good


one bottle with two regulators is what im doing (y)
 
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