Speedway / Turbo Make your own header kit
06-03-2008, 09:41 PM
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Speedway / Turbo Make your own header kit Well, with my turbo on it's way tomorrow, it is soon time to make my own headers. I had ordered and just received their LS1 weld your own header kit today in the mail. I am going to post pics of what you get. This should hopefully help all the people that had questions about the kit. I will be making my kit in the next couple of weeks and I will track my process for you.
06-04-2008, 12:31 AM
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primaries Sorry, I forgot that part. I did order the 1 3/4 primaries. When I ordered they were $170 for the whole kit. It came with the LS1 flanges and he SBC flanges.
I received two separate boxes. A small box with just the LS1 flanges and the larger box with the 8 primary tubes, two 3 inch collectors and the SBC flanges.
Right now, I am not sure if they are running a special on shipping or if it was an error but I only paid $6.99 for shipping. I live in PA and they shipped from Nebraska. I placed my order on the internet and they called me to verify and they even double-checked on the shipping. It was right. $6.99 They shipped on 5-30 and I received today.
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I received two separate boxes. A small box with just the LS1 flanges and the larger box with the 8 primary tubes, two 3 inch collectors and the SBC flanges.
Right now, I am not sure if they are running a special on shipping or if it was an error but I only paid $6.99 for shipping. I live in PA and they shipped from Nebraska. I placed my order on the internet and they called me to verify and they even double-checked on the shipping. It was right. $6.99 They shipped on 5-30 and I received today.
Very happy
06-04-2008, 06:27 AM
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Mild steel. That might not be the best thing for fabricating turbo headers. At the very least, you will have to brace the heck out of the turbo. Might be a good idea to wrap the headers as well. You will loose a lot of thermal energy right out of the thin wall of the steel.
06-04-2008, 06:45 AM
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he can always ceramic coat the headers to help with keeping the heat in the headers and its always a good idea to build a brace for the turbo,something that will give some not totally rigid
06-04-2008, 01:53 PM
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You would want the brace solid, like a cradle, Use flex joints on the secondaries if needed. That steel is so thin coating AND wrap will only band-aid the problem. If it is a large single system, lag could be an issue.
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06-05-2008, 12:17 AM
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Mine were built from stainless elbows and straights. Its almost 1/4" thick! Extremely expensive. I had like $1000 into materials alone. You can get it from Burns Stainless. Great people.
Mine are damn near equal length primaries, what a feat that was! That is something not normally done in most turbo kits, but I think is important too. Just my opinion though.
Mine are damn near equal length primaries, what a feat that was! That is something not normally done in most turbo kits, but I think is important too. Just my opinion though.
06-05-2008, 12:25 AM
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I don't need or want stainless. I was looking at something I could weld together and then have coated. Is there a certain thickness that the pipes should be?
Any sponsors sell the primary tubes or bends that are thicker than this kit?
Any sponsors sell the primary tubes or bends that are thicker than this kit?
06-05-2008, 12:37 AM
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The kit you have is fine. 16 gauge Mild or Stainless will get the job done. Definatley coat the Mild for heat retention. Coat the Stainless to if you want. Brace the turbo to help keep the weight off the headers.
Dont get caught up in the you need stainless steel headers and equal legnth primaries unless you are building a full tilt race car. While both of the above have thier benifits, unless you are going for broke there is no point other than bragging rights.
Summary:
-Keep what you have.
-Take your time.
-Have some fun.
If ya screw it up. Who cares? Spend another $170 bucks and start over.
Dont get caught up in the you need stainless steel headers and equal legnth primaries unless you are building a full tilt race car. While both of the above have thier benifits, unless you are going for broke there is no point other than bragging rights.
Summary:
-Keep what you have.
-Take your time.
-Have some fun.
If ya screw it up. Who cares? Spend another $170 bucks and start over.
06-06-2008, 08:46 AM
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for the real cheap asses out there (like myself), i cut the bends out of a couple of k2500 z71 stock exhaust systems to build my crossover pipe on my turbo setup....and it looks great....and the stock exhaust on 99+ trucks are stainless......best part is, it was FREE!!!
06-06-2008, 10:34 AM
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Great advice guys..... I knew I would have to brace the turbo. This thing is pretty heavy and I knew the piping wouldn't be strong enough to hold it.
How do most people mount\brace the turbo? Or, should I say, where on the turbo can you put a mount?
How do most people mount\brace the turbo? Or, should I say, where on the turbo can you put a mount?
06-06-2008, 12:05 PM
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I almost went with that same kit but the only thing I didnt like was the header flanges were too thin IMO. The 16-18 gauge tubing is perfectly ok so dont worry about that. Stainless is overkill these days IMO unless you just want a seriously high end setup. Mild steel with some kind of ceramic coating and a brace for the turbo will like a long time.
06-06-2008, 12:30 PM
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Most of the ones I've seen weld the support to the flange that the turbo bolts to. I saw one killer one that actually had a turbo flange that was about 14 inches long that was welded to the car frame.
