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Old Sep 1, 2009 | 03:21 PM
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Here is mine....
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Old Sep 1, 2009 | 05:56 PM
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pretty shitty having to follow veee8 but heres mine

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Old Sep 1, 2009 | 06:04 PM
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Sorry... here is another car I am working on, with a truck manifold kit.
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Old Sep 1, 2009 | 06:16 PM
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Chris,
Did you do all the fab work on that car? Looks pretty tough!
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Old Sep 1, 2009 | 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Tally TransAm
pretty shitty having to follow veee8 but heres mine

This will be the kit i will be going by. Very clean!!
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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Ls2R1Rx7
This will be the kit i will be going by. Very clean!!
What kind of paint is that?
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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by brandon1566
What kind of paint is that?
It doesn't look like the inside is coated... but it looks like that thing was never welded
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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by brandon1566
What kind of paint is that?
uh . . .

its 1800 degree shitty high temp in a can paint. I was planning on ceramic coating it but the local coating place decided to hike the price by 50% from the time i called to the time i showed up and kinda pissed me off

i know its not going to hold up, and i knows its going to flake off rather quickly, but this is an uber budget build and im running outta funds so you gotta do what you gotta do. i purposefully made it so very little has to be removed to get the crossover out the bottom (1 cold side pipe and unclamp the down pipe). i just found out today that a local place has a killer deal on DEI heat wrap so i will probably wrap it in the very near future, but what little money i have left is going to finishing it. details will trickle in down the line

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btw, i cant take credit for the welding. i did the cutting and measuring and fitting and everything then brought it to a friend to have it welded. if fact the only portions of the welds you can still see are the remnants of my ugly tack welds that held it together
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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 09:39 PM
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I dont know how much diff the heat wrap on ebay is than others, I bought 20ft for 7$ I figured id give it a try for that price.
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Old Sep 3, 2009 | 06:27 AM
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couldnt you just use a FlowMaster merge?
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Old Sep 3, 2009 | 02:46 PM
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Nice Pipes guys! Gonna try to make time to work on my merge pipe this weekend!
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Old Sep 4, 2009 | 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by brandon1566
id like to see some pics to see how everyones doing them. I was doing my turbo kit today, when I got to the merge pipe i just couldnt figure out how to get 2, 3" pipes to fit a t3 flange.
wait whaaaa t3???

i mean no hatin, but last time i spoke "T3" was with my 67mm turbo civic...!!!

on the reals tho, youl want 2&1/4 off each header runnin to your turbo with a legit 2-1 goin into the t3 flange. If you have a legit t3 flanged hotside turbo that ****** is gonna spool damn near off idle.
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Old Sep 4, 2009 | 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Hi Volume
wait whaaaa t3???

i mean no hatin, but last time i spoke "T3" was with my 67mm turbo civic...!!!

on the reals tho, youl want 2&1/4 off each header runnin to your turbo with a legit 2-1 goin into the t3 flange. If you have a legit t3 flanged hotside turbo that ****** is gonna spool damn near off idle.


Im using the turbo everyone said to use on the hybrid section, theres alot of people running these supposidly with good results. i wish i woulda bought the s475 but i guess thats a later date
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Old Sep 4, 2009 | 10:00 PM
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thats.....gonna be interesting to put it politely.



but heheheh all these merge pipe ****!!
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That food coloring trick is pretty nice. I am going to have to remember that when it comes time to make mine.
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Originally Posted by Tally TransAm
uh . . .

its 1800 degree shitty high temp in a can paint. I was planning on ceramic coating it but the local coating place decided to hike the price by 50% from the time i called to the time i showed up and kinda pissed me off

i know its not going to hold up, and i knows its going to flake off rather quickly, but this is an uber budget build and im running outta funds so you gotta do what you gotta do
I used VHT a couple of years ago on my pipes. I cooked it on there according to the instructions then wrapped them with the cheapest header wrap I could find. I took it apart the other day to do some work & the paint looked flawless. I probably have around 20k miles on this set up.
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Old Sep 18, 2009 | 09:57 PM
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Just started on mine. what do you guys think?


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Old Sep 20, 2009 | 04:29 PM
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sweet **** guys
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Old Sep 22, 2009 | 02:09 PM
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Recent car I did. Not the best work but it was a budget deal.

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Old Sep 22, 2009 | 02:47 PM
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damn black that looks good, I should have done mine in ss too
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