Is my brand new T4 flange warped from welding?
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Guarantee that mother ****** will seal it up. Go ahead, ask me how I know that.
Also, as it was mentioned earlier. Bolting the thing up, torquing and heat cycling will pull that flange flat.
Machining a completely fabbed crossover is a bitch. Dont waste the money on it.
Guarantee that mother ****** will seal it up. Go ahead, ask me how I know that.
Also, as it was mentioned earlier. Bolting the thing up, torquing and heat cycling will pull that flange flat.
Machining a completely fabbed crossover is a bitch. Dont waste the money on it.
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If it is bad enough, the best way to make anything flat is to have it ground.
If you can find a tooling shop or tool and die shop, they should be able to rig it up on a surface grinder.
If you can find a tooling shop or tool and die shop, they should be able to rig it up on a surface grinder.
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but like I said earlier, if it was me, i would mill it flat.
really i think everyone here has different opinions based on different experiences.. really any one of these options could work for you.
i suppose just bolting it on for now and calling it good would work if you dont mind taking it off later if theres an issue.
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I took it and got it milled. Seals great. Just drove it around the block, pulls awesomely!
I wouldn't suggest silicon to seal this at all, just sayin. We are talking >20 psi, not some 7psi deal.
I wouldn't suggest silicon to seal this at all, just sayin. We are talking >20 psi, not some 7psi deal.
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It looks warped bad... nothing will straighten it unless you sand/mill it flat again. They move a lot when welded that is why I made a block of steel to bolt it to while welding it. If you have another one it might just be easier to cut it off and reweld a new one on. Heating it up and trying to bend it back is pointless, the way it actually warped it kind of rolled out... and then cooled that way, you'd have to twist the welded areas back...impossible.
Heres what I use... I recomend it.. or something similar.
Heres what I use... I recomend it.. or something similar.
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