►►►Tales from IronFreak and his shop shenanigans◄◄◄

[Jalves619]

New ones are $90 each from Bimmerworld

http://store.bimmerworld.com/inventory-blowout---genuine-bmw-96-99-m3-front-spindles-p1066.aspx

[IronFreak]

[TeXJ]

I figured I owed people a status update on the build. At the end of March I was told I would be losing my shop, but that it would be late summer. By mid April I was told I had to the end of May. Needless to say I haven't been able to work on it until now. I packed everything up, moved most of it twice before I decided to just bring stuff home.

Things will start moving again.......Enjoy.

video wont play, set to private

[IronFreak]

Fixed, try it now.

[TeXJ]

sweet! sub'd ya

[IronFreak]

get what you pay for............


EDIT-

Let me clarify, what you see below is NOT a broken manifold. It a picture after I cut the tubes from the flange. The ports didn't line up with the head and I wasn't going to continue building this thing knowing that. So I cut everything up and started piecing it back together correctly.





Lined up the flange to the ports, now I'm slowly pulling the tubes to the ports and welding them up.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

how did that happen?

[IronFreak]

It was probably made in China by some 8 year old kid.......

[unloadedak]

I doubt it... By the time Asians are 8 they are at least three times as smart as us white folk. It had to be a newborn.

[IronFreak]

Well played sir.

[ak-]

Was it a weight issue or did you do something?

[IronFreak]

When I mounted the manifold up to the head I noticed that the last three ports where significantly out of line. So the first picture is after I removed the flange from the assembly and cut it in half. it allowed me to line up the ports. they were all about 1/4"+ off.

-The first picture shows where the flange should be and where the ports meet it.

[IronFreak]

when your typical coils just aren't enough........














Oh......and this is happening........



Tigging the cast turned out better then I thought it would. All in all, a stupid amount of work.....don't look forward to doing that again anytime soon.

[jaywood]

Looks good man! Nice welds :) what type of filler rod are you using?

[IronFreak]

Looks good man! Nice welds :) what type of filler rod are you using?

I like to use SS filler rod on about all my mild/SS welds. I have er70 also but for some reason the SS 308L just seems more fluid if that makes sense? It puddles easier.

Thanks, It was a giant PITA, probably have 6hrs in the trailing arms, notching that sq. tube to fit right was ridiculous. I'm going to try and get the diff. mount finished this week and the trailing arms and subframe painted.