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

[ak-]

Looks fantastic.

I've always wondered - how strategic do you have to be when welding all the runners to the final collector? Are there areas where it's impossible to weld that you have to plan out before hand?
I have no welding experience.

[IronFreak]

Looks fantastic.

I've always wondered - how strategic do you have to be when welding all the runners to the final collector? Are there areas where it's impossible to weld that you have to plan out before hand?
I have no welding experience.

very.....I didn't give it as much forethought as I should have. But I learned a lot. some of the collector welds because of my sequencing I had to use internal and external gas purge setup and several inches of stickout of tungsten on my torch.

I'll definitely approach it differently next time.

I've done quite a bit of work to my personal ebay manifold to give it proper fit, modified it to a twin scroll and added wastegates. It'll do great for the t3. Once I take the motor to the next level I'll build my own personal manifold.



Cut it apart, lined up the flanges and welded it back together.

Added wastegates

[ak-]

Yeap. Saw your work on IG and followed yah.

[deutschman]

thanks

I like your TIG finger ;)

[Northern]

I like your TIG finger ;)

Good catch, I had to go take a second look.

[IronFreak]

thanks

I like your TIG finger ;)

They're awesome, I have the standard and the XL. They really work well.

[IronFreak]

Some fun I had this weekend. I was driving the black 240 S14.5 with neon wheels most of the day.

[Ether-D]

Kickass. Nice musical accompaniment.

[IronFreak]

BUY IT!!!

[DER E30]

BUY IT!!!

Putting in a 9 inch or something now?

[IronFreak]

Putting in a 9 inch or something now?

e36m3........

[IronFreak]

Updates

I'm all moved.....again. Back home and even though it's small I've missed this space. I've worked on my car more in the last two weeks than I have in the last 6 months.

I wanted to get the exhaust manifold, wastegate dumps and probably even the DP done before I pulled the motor for final assembly.

I finished cutting it all up, welding flanges back on, splices in and opening up holes for the wastegates. I also cut the flange off. I warped it so bad because I welded without a heat sink so I got a new flange for it too.


Wastegate runners fitted and tacked.


Welded


Tacked back onto manifold


Welded and flange fitted


Finally back in car and routing the dumps. Try to get those finished up this week.


Side note......Don't get your long sleeves caught in a belt sander....sweet disappearing act ensues.


Thats really about it for pictures, so bad at remembering to take them. More to come this week though.

[TheTacoMan]

Finally back in car and routing the dumps. Try to get those finished up this week.

[jalopi]

where are you dumping them to? the downpipe? don't really see where else they could go, that side of the engine bay is starting to look tighter than my first girlfriend

[IronFreak]

where are you dumping them to? the downpipe? don't really see where else they could go, that side of the engine bay is starting to look tighter than my first girlfriend

Hood dump bro. Stay tuned, things gunna get pretty.