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Topic: DIY tutorial : making a merge pipe (Read 29878 times)
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FabRight
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Thanks for your time and effort to show everyone that hella cool trick. Simple but effective. I like that. One more tool to add to the box of tricks.  |
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Mike Schlebach
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91redmustang
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How in the helll did I miss this... I could of used it when I was hacking the hell out my crossover merge!
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SWT Racing
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awesome post i am going to have to make something similiar for my 3800 build. any tips for making the "merged" end fit a rectangular t4 flange? I clamped a 3 foot long solid 3/4" steel bar to my work table and left about two inches hanging off. Then stick the tube over the bar and use it as a mandrel to fit the tube to the rectangular flange. I used a 1/2" bar to do the header pipes where they meet the head flange.  |
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TomServo
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Whats bolted to the CHRA, part of a turbo support?
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SWT Racing
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Whats bolted to the CHRA, part of a turbo support?
Yes. It's a little bracket I made up to fit around and clamp to a 1" square tube. I made a fixture that ran across the engine compartment of my Vega with two pices of square tube facing fore and aft. When I wqs determining where to place the turbos, I could slide them around using this bracket so I could visualize things. Once I determined where I wanted the turbo, I clamped them down and built the headers from the head to the turbine. |
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TomServo
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Yes. It's a little bracket I made up to fit around and clamp to a 1" square tube. I made a fixture that ran across the engine compartment of my Vega with two pices of square tube facing fore and aft. When I wqs determining where to place the turbos, I could slide them around using this bracket so I could visualize things. Once I determined where I wanted the turbo, I clamped them down and built the headers from the head to the turbine.
Cool, glad I asked! I'm sure it'll come in handy for my second turbo mustang (in the next life!  ) |
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Kevins89notch5.0
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Looking good man! |
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post a video next time....It would have more visual impact |
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turbo418
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Thanks for the info and pics on the merge it helped me out alot.
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Koll
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Mine came out just like that.
Cept it didnt hold water.
Weighed about 25 lbs (from just throwing on more weld)
and evuntally got the ban from the sledge hammer.
I skipped a few steps tho. Such as checking for levelness of the cut.
Getting a perfect mirror image to use.
All in all, it was a decent failure.
Ill post a picture later of the final outcome.
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crazygn
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i made one after i seen this worked great , good job
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I will have to say that I was skeptical about the food coloring idea at first but damn if it didn't work like a champ. Thanks for the idea.
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seawalkersee
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This makes too much sence for me to do. I will have to find a harder way to screw it up.
Chris
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Nice write up! will definitly use
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Yeah, coming back to this thread I think I'll use it when I make a pulse-paired header for my HX40.
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This makes too much sence for me to do. I will have to find a harder way to screw it up.
Chris
Yeah same here. |
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My Mirror doesn't have a zoom feature.
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MoparFreak
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Great writeup! But I'm curious as to how would you go about making the merge for a slant six header? Or even merging more than 2 pipes together?
Michael
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TomServo
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Great writeup! But I'm curious as to how would you go about making the merge for a slant six header? Or even merging more than 2 pipes together?
Michael
You could do the entire thing as its shown in this tutorial, you'd just be cutting both sides of the middle pipe. |
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leon
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awsome idea!! i found this a while back for pvc pipe for making pipe joints, its an on line program... i havent used it but it may be usefull
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Nice write up... I used this method and had great results.. Thanks
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RandyRoy
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Im curious about making something like this for a 3" dp and down to dual 2 1/2"'s. Think I can just try this same idea and use the same flowmaster cones just different diameter?
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RandyRoy
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nice, thanks for the link, Im going to try that. I have to split my 3'' dp into dual 2 1/2 to connect to my long tube x(at least try to)
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I will try that
thank's
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