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I would not recommend it, but I know it has been done. Properly pre-heating the cage in the car is tough since paint is on the other side of the metal being heated.
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yea, it could be done. i tried welding a piece of scrap .120 wall dom with my old lincoln 140v mig. it would start out fine, but didnt have a good enough duty cycle to keep anything decent going. i would only be able to weld about 3 inch sections before i had to turn it off to cool down.
not fun if youre going to do a cage
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Dude that's awesome. I might have to play with that next time I'm up there and make some SAE->metric misalignment spacers.
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can someone give me a quick run down on these misalignment spacers?
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Spring break progress. Cars been running the ls1 for 2 years. Aprox 15k. Lots of California HPDE events. Theres been a few revisions I wanted to make to the swap. Run a full crossmember, Push motor back. Run softer mounts, Finally running a cam
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kinda, you have to know feed rates, cutting speeds, be able to keep a good bit. but lathing is pretty easy. i made some pretty good looking stuff in school for my manufacturing class. i want a lathe, but i'd really have very little use for it. i could make shift knobs i guess.
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I have lathe envy. I've wanted one so bad for like 3 years now, dont have the room. Now I'm gonna have to make something on the $30k Femco mill at work so you'll have something to be jealous about lol.
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![]() It's been a while since I've really done anything on either of my cars but I redid the whole fuel system on the Lsx the other day with a double pumper setup in the back feeding a -8 to a earls filter up to the stock rails that I cut and removed the baffles on swapped the cross over hard line for a -6 up front to connect both rails and institute a return system to a Aeromotive fpr and returned with a -6. I was really having issues getting the motor to run 57psi of fuel pressure even with the corvette filter/regulator is was still running in the 70s. Anyway heres a few pictures of the project. "Sorry for the crappy iphone pictures"
Stock Rail: after I started cutting ![]() ![]() ![]() New crossover: ![]() ![]() ![]() Looks pretty stock: ![]() Got my Track car back from paint, Porsche Gt3 rs green. ![]() ![]() |
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Started welding school in January. LOVE IT!
Ive been sucking at welding for the past 5 years(self taught), and now I have an excellent instructor to tell me why I suck! Started off with stick in Feb., just surfacing with different rods and just recently moved on to joints. 6010 root pass my best one so far ![]() ![]() And the new pit bike we made at our shop. ![]()
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I have a big metal table on wheels. I put the engine onto that then lower the car down on top of it. Once everything is lined up correctly I start the fab process.
O BTW. I just passed my AWS welding test today for 4130. Woot.
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Charge pipes, these are guesstimates at the moment, I dont have the intercooler or couplers yet but they're pretty close to where I need them.
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^^ looking good man ..
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so i need some help with tig aluminum. i'm running a miller syncrowave 180, AC, 3/32 pure tungsten, 1/16 filler rod, and staright argon at around 15 cfm.
I just recently got this machine, and havent tig'd anything except steel before. i was trying to do a butt weld on some 2.5" od aluminum intercooler pipe. when i would go to start the weld, the arc jumps around erratically and sounds terrible. it doesnt even start to melt the metal until i put alot of heat into it...somewhere around 90 amps. when it starts to melt, the arc seems to smooth out, but it just burns through no matter how much filler i add and leaves a black soot kind of deposit. i cleaned the piece with a wire brush before trying to weld it. can you guys give me any pointers or tell me what i'm doing wrong? thanks!
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^^^ When people have welded aluminum for me, it seems like they're modulating around 80-90 amps, and they always get the material suuuuuuuuuuper clean. Black soot is most likely dirty aluminum. Those that are actually good at it should probably chime in lol.
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When I practice TIG on aluminium, I brush my coupons real quick, nothing thorough then if I feel like it, I hit with some acetone. But that's for practice stuff. You can usually get away with just hitting the scrap piece with a Stainless brush and practicing.
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