Building a new kit including headers
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Yea, thanks for the compliments everyone. Like I said my main fear will be everything going back together after I weld the tubes up.
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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.