my only suggestion is to work on your fitment of parts in some cases.
Example your brake resovoirs watch out for the way they are ground. From the photo it looks like part has a outside bevel while the rest is flat. It can change the way the weld will look and even the way it penetrates.
This isnt me trying to be negative. But just something to help you grow as its something i have now become ocd about. Fitment is part of the key to good consistent welds.
I appreciate the advice. One of my biggest issues is being able to recreate the same weld along the same piece time and time again. I will have to pay more attention to those details.
Recreating a weld piece to piece can be hard. I'm not perfect by a long shot. However the rule of : do to all others what you do to the first one applies. It's the best and easiest way to control get similar/indentical pieces. All pieces should be cut the same, ground the same, beveled the same, prepped and cleaned the same etc etc. Gas should be the same, position and torch angle, sharp clean tungsten for steels, and clean filler as well. No 2 pieces of metal are perfect and can easily weld differently. However those are easy ways to to aid you
Recreating a weld piece to piece can be hard. I'm not perfect by a long shot. However the rule of : do to all others what you do to the first one applies. It's the best and easiest way to control get similar/indentical pieces. All pieces should be cut the same, ground the same, beveled the same, prepped and cleaned the same etc etc. Gas should be the same, position and torch angle, sharp clean tungsten for steels, and clean filler as well. No 2 pieces of metal are perfect and can easily weld differently. However those are easy ways to to aid you
i made an exhaust like a rally car along the lines of the Launsport P555 but for like $200 instead of $900 :lol:
I made some dimpled gussets for hangers and they came out good, it looks super kewl and sounds like a rally car. Cold start is a bit louder, but warm idle isnt bad it has a throaty sound. Cruising is almost no drone, and WOT is really loud :lol: Ill take some video when it stops raining, im going to have to sell the car and build an Ark at this rate.
The exhaust looks stellar. I really like the gusset incorporated with the hanger.
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Start with cardboard and get it close while taking some mental notes
trace templates to paper
scan big ass paper with big as scanner
insert into autocad and trace template while applying mental notes
From CAD it goes to plasma table. I chose 18ga. Light but thick enough to mig. Galvanized for some extra protection and we have an abundance of it at work
Then I just start fitting it together, the rolled part was tricky. I ended up standing it up on end to hold it to the line and tack it
After a while, and a sore throat from galvanized welds smoke, you end up with this.
And I had some nice urethane adhesive cock laying around so I added some security and niftyness to the weld areas
Painted with undercoating to minimize resonance
And mounted. Just waiting on flat bridge peice from floor pans to diffuser under gas tank.
Finished off with pan connecting floor pans to diffuser
Terry, grind the coating off on both sides where you are going to weld and wear a respirator. Enough exposure to the fumes will get you sick enough to have a similar feeling to mustard gas poisoning. Same thing for welding cadium or zinc plates stuff. Essentially creates phosphate poisoning
A touch to add to galvanized poisoning, if you do happen to get it I have widely heard drinking copious amounts of whole milk and smoking a cigarette/joint will clear you out faster. I've never read any scientific back studies of such but that is the consensus among the weld forums etc.
Yep. A friend of mine wiped a core support down with brake clean and started mig welding and whatever the fumes made caused him to start having seizures that night and its effected his life ever since.
Yep. A friend of mine wiped a core support down with brake clean and started mig welding and whatever the fumes made caused him to start having seizures that night and its effected his life ever since.
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