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Age: 43 Posts: 58 Joined: 14th Feb 2006 Ride: EBXR8, AU 11 XR8 UTE, FG XR6 Location: Perth Wanneroo |
If ya want a nice bit of thick plywood or some timber for the top let us know. The plywood comes 2400x1200. Pretty much any thickness you want. I would probably get 25mm thick or you can get 32mm if you want.
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Age: 43 Posts: 58 Joined: 14th Feb 2006 Ride: EBXR8, AU 11 XR8 UTE, FG XR6 Location: Perth Wanneroo |
If ya want a nice bit of thick plywood or some timber for the top let us know. The plywood comes 2400x1200. Pretty much any thickness you want. I would probably get 25mm thick or you can get 32mm if you want.
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Age: 43 Posts: 58 Joined: 14th Feb 2006 Ride: EBXR8, AU 11 XR8 UTE, FG XR6 Location: Perth Wanneroo |
If ya want a nice bit of thick plywood or some timber for the top let us know. The plywood comes 2400x1200. Pretty much any thickness you want. I would probably get 25mm thick or you can get 32mm if you want.
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hey Pete, pics look good what are you going to tune this with Tweeker or Sniper ??..also poor cougar left behind again..
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Thanks Ash, I'll see what steel bench I can find.
Hey Joe, I'll be using a Moates 1/4 horse to tune it and then I'll stick a chip in with the final cal. Yeah I'd hoped the poxy 3.9 would hang in there long enough for me to do the Cougar but alas it didn't and there was no way I was going buy another 3.9 or even a 4.6 that could just as easily f**k again!? Plus those things are way overpriced! |
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Picked up a steel table for $100 the other day and here's my welding jig...anudder head.
 RH side...  Here's where I got to today. They'll be ok but I'm not that happy with what they supplied. The secondary pipes should go over the cones but they're the other way round, and worse, they're like a C**k in a sock so I've had to virtually butt them together for welding so it's not as bad as having a pipe overlapping the wrong way. Btw the final collectors are s**t too! 
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Age: 43 Posts: 58 Joined: 14th Feb 2006 Ride: EBXR8, AU 11 XR8 UTE, FG XR6 Location: Perth Wanneroo |
They look good Pete. Pity about the secondary pipes and collectors.
Are you going to get new collectors or Just use the ones in the kit. |
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I'll just cut and shut the ones in the kit Ash.
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XR9UTE wrote: Did some header building on the weekend. It's a bit of fun shaping the round pipes to go in a rectangular hole let me tell you! Got a couple of pipes on the Left bank done too but they are more difficult to route.  Why didn't you make some transitions....would've been so much easier to align the tubes..... I used a Castle kit a few years ago, didnt have a drama. It was only a m/s one...... Looks like you got heaps of room for some turbo manifolds....lol.... Nice work Daz
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Transitions?
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XR9UTE wrote: Did some header building on the weekend. It's a bit of fun shaping the round pipes to go in a rectangular hole let me tell you! Got a couple of pipes on the Left bank done too but they are more difficult to route. Going to extreme's there color coding the spark plugs. 
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twase wrote: XR9UTE wrote: Did some header building on the weekend. It's a bit of fun shaping the round pipes to go in a rectangular hole let me tell you! Got a couple of pipes on the Left bank done too but they are more difficult to route. Going to extreme's there color coding the spark plugs. Damn I was trying to keep that a secret. |
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XR9UTE wrote: Transitions? The ports are rectangular arent they. Just form short pieces of tube the ports shape, then u can align the rest of the bends to whatever angle you want......
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DA22LE wrote: XR9UTE wrote: Transitions? The ports are rectangular arent they. Just form short pieces of tube the ports shape, then u can align the rest of the bends to whatever angle you want...... Too much welding that way and you end up with welds right where you have to squash it for bolt clearance. Besides I didn't have any problem aligning the tubes, I had a hard time shaping them into rectangles but I got it done never-the-less. |
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XR9UTE wrote: DA22LE wrote: XR9UTE wrote: Transitions? The ports are rectangular arent they. Just form short pieces of tube the ports shape, then u can align the rest of the bends to whatever angle you want...... Too much welding that way and you end up with welds right where you have to squash it for bolt clearance. Besides I didn't have any problem aligning the tubes, I had a hard time shaping them into rectangles but I got it done never-the-less. Have to agree with you about limited bolt room, got to love heads with the wide exhaust bolt pattern.
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