Building a new kit including headers
10-03-2010, 08:17 PM
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Building a new kit including headers About a month ago I shredded the belt on my car while doing a long pull. Some of it wrapped up around my crank behind my pulley taring up my front main seal. So I drove it home leaking oil. I decided to change them cam while I had it tore down, when I got to that state I started thinking of selling the kit and building my own. If this works out the way I think I should be able to pay for everything with the money from my kit once it sells. So here I am starting from scratch. I probably would have tried this the first time around but I didn't have the tools to do the job. But now I have a Tig machine, chop saw, a grinder and the will to give it a shot here I go.
I ordered just the material to build the headers so far. Which was flanges, tubing kit, collectors and 2.5" v-bands. All 304ss at a cost of $550 shipped. Makes paying $1000-$1200 for headers not look so bad. I am probably going to use my T76 again on a t4 flange, but a friend knows a guy with a Turbonetics t6 88mm that is wanting to trade. I am waiting on more details about the turbo before I go for it.
This kit will be build very similar to KoolRayz. This is what I did today for about 2 hours.
I ordered just the material to build the headers so far. Which was flanges, tubing kit, collectors and 2.5" v-bands. All 304ss at a cost of $550 shipped. Makes paying $1000-$1200 for headers not look so bad. I am probably going to use my T76 again on a t4 flange, but a friend knows a guy with a Turbonetics t6 88mm that is wanting to trade. I am waiting on more details about the turbo before I go for it.
This kit will be build very similar to KoolRayz. This is what I did today for about 2 hours.
10-04-2010, 12:09 AM
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Only real thing I didn't like about it was that I couldn't run a 4" down pipe, the waste gate wasn't recirculated, and I would have had to cut it up anyway to fit a mid frame turbo.
10-04-2010, 05:19 PM
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Another 2 hours and one header is completely mocked up. Now I need to order order more material, I used almost all of it on this one header and didn't waste one piece. I am pretty happy with it, all the spark plugs are easy to get to, so are the bolts. The slide in easily also, hopefully the don't get screwed up during welding.
Just a picture to show that you don't need a shop, garage, or even a car port to do work, but I still wish I did.
Just a picture to show that you don't need a shop, garage, or even a car port to do work, but I still wish I did.
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10-04-2010, 11:26 PM
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Yea, thanks for the compliments everyone. Like I said my main fear will be everything going back together after I weld the tubes up.
10-05-2010, 01:29 PM
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No it's a 165, it works well for the little stuff I do. But it doesn't have a lot of control, I found a company that makes a panel that lets you fine tune it but haven't done anymore reading on it. The torch head takes a little bit to get used to with the start/stop button and the heat control built in to it. I am thinking of ordering a foot pedal for it before I do the welding.
