fabricated parts, ...are cool Options

[akamiami]

Just finished with the 02 housing and wastegate dump last night. The welds look ugly, and they are for the most part, but it should work nicely and ugly welds won't really matter when it's all stainless and will be ground down and then wrapped in header wrap.


There are more pictures of the 02 housing in the gallery.

The intercooler pipes are absolutely beautiful, I'll get more pics of those and the other new stuff (BOV, turbo, wastegate, etc...) as I put it all on the car on Saturday. I'm looking forward to having a running DSM again and not having to drive the beater Evo everywhere.

[akamiami]

Thanks guys, I'm actually quite proud of this piece obviously. FP wanted 425 for their unit and an extra 200 to get it to dump back into the 02 housing for the wastegate....so I spent about 300 in supplies to make my own. Not too much savings but it's nice to make something for the car rather than just buy it.

I've never fabricated anything this complex before and to see the thing in person, it's quite nice and very functional.

It would have looked 100% better, but I've never welded stainless before and it took a while to figure out the optimum settings in order to get the cleanest, strongest welds. The intercooler pipes were tig welded and man, they are marvelous. If I ever outgrow this mig welder, I'll be able to do truly professional quality stuff with a tig.