this is so geoff, and all of you can check it out

my dad originally agreed to do his piping, and while watching him weld and stuff, i said dammit...i can do that!

so after some practicing on some scraps...i've now almost finished his custom piping...and did a few other things along the way


the blowoff valve still needs to go on this pipe, and i need to cut a notch out of the radiator support


i also moved the coolant overflow tank so we can have a spot to put his intake pipe as well, im going to paint the pipes with some stuff called metalcast, should look pretty sweet



theres his old oil filler neck, it was cut up and welded kinda crappy, so i put in a new one you can see in the other pics







well i still got more work to do so ill update the pics when im done...hope ya like how its goin

 

Looks good, need to work on your welding a bit more, but as long as it's airtight it doesn't matter what it looks like

 

Well he cleaned them up afterwards

 

yeah im workin on it, and no it wont matter what it looks like because its going to smoothed over and filled in...then painted

it sucks, whenever i get a good bead going i have to turn the pipe, so i can never keep it going...

 

what kind of welder do you use? I have a crappy little arc welder. Its like impossible to make a pretty weld.lol

 

its just a craftsman mig welder, another issue i have is the voltage, i need a setting in between what im doing, because it doesn't get hot enough on the low setting to get a good bead, and it gets too hot on the next setting up so i burn through...

im gettin better at it though

 

When I started welding I would just sit there and weld bead after bead until I got it to look good and have good, deep penetration. Just trial and error on arc length and voltage until I figured it out. I started out on a lincoln stick welder though, and from there started doing tig. I still have never touched a mig welder

 

Mcnannay, you said BKM is your brother? Do you happen to know if he sent me my carbureter yet? I try contacting him to no avail. Sorry to thread jack

 

nice pics, thanks for the pics.

 

that looks good man... are you still planning on taking that spoiler off? u never got back to me on that

 

yea, my biggest problem when i learned to weld was how fast i wanted the line to come out. once i got it to a point that was controllable, the bead got better. i dont own one myself tho yet, and my neighbor is never home anymore to use his so..... damnit! i need to gank one. haha, welding is fun!

 

FMIC!!! Yeahhhh

 

Hell yes man. Oh damn i'm getting stoked ;-)

 

I just got a brand new Hobart with seemingly infinite options... feel free to use it anytime. I'm going to try it out today.

 

yeah welding is really fun, and the more i do the better i'll get, makes me want a turbo so i can intercool it!!! learning how to weld just opened up a huge door, the possibilities are getting endless now... i can do anything!


jays83...i mailed the carb myself, im suprised it hasn't arrived yet

and elysian, im pulling it off before sevenstock, so ill let you know, i might send it back with somebody i go to sevenstock with...save ya shipping and all, if you wanna set something up thats cool, i don't want it thats for sure

 

if u have someone bring it back after 7stock, thatll work great.. thx

 

Okay, thanks mcnannay. I did finally get ahold of him, and realize how tough it may be

I'm sure they'll get here by tomorrow. Thanks again!

 

They? Man, I'm tired. It, lol

 

looks good nice to see geoff posted something,havn't seen or heard from him in a while

 

Iotus was planning to send them here for me to Chrome powdercoat them, or could do anodize blue...etc. Still planning on doing that?

 

um, we painted them with a metallic blue, well, one of them at least, we will finish up the other one later i guess.