Today I worked on finishing the exhaust, and getting it hung.
I managed to do that without any incident. So I moved on to building the lower radiator hose.
Everything is getting so close down there, there simply isn't enough room for a flex hose, and I didn't wnat to use one of those anyway. I built it out of one 1.750" exhaust mild steel bend.
I just replied that I didn't have a TIG, and I had no TIG skills when I built the exhaust manifold, but today that has changed. Awhile back, I bought my old TIG back, and I've been practicing.
TIG welding is more of an art than it is welding. A mig takes about one hour to get decent enough to weld competently, and a TIG requires countless hours just to get decent enough to use it. I'm finally getting comfortable with it.
I welded the two cut and spliced halves of that J bend, and set it into one of the hose ends to hold it for this pic. I'll still have to remove the radiator, so there's no point in making it permanent yet.
I'd say it's getting a little busy down there.
The rest of the day I spent starting to build the mount to hold the two oil coolers beneath the front bumper as depicted in my drawing from my last reply. That started by cutting a rectangular notch out of the bottom of the bumper.
The bracket is made out of a combination of 16ga, and 14 ga. mild steel.
I'm pretty happy w/ how it's gonna look.
Both coolers have -10 fittings, and I made the thing work so that those fittings, and the hoses that come to them will run through the bumper.
There'll be a shroud to completely encase the two coolers when I'm done, this is just the top, and bottom mounts.
There is an inch between the back of the coolers, and the cold side charge tube that runs behind them. I know that that thing gets pretty hot, I hope I don't have issues w/ heat soak making the coolers hotter than they'd be somewhere else.
I managed to do that without any incident. So I moved on to building the lower radiator hose.
Everything is getting so close down there, there simply isn't enough room for a flex hose, and I didn't wnat to use one of those anyway. I built it out of one 1.750" exhaust mild steel bend.
I just replied that I didn't have a TIG, and I had no TIG skills when I built the exhaust manifold, but today that has changed. Awhile back, I bought my old TIG back, and I've been practicing.
TIG welding is more of an art than it is welding. A mig takes about one hour to get decent enough to weld competently, and a TIG requires countless hours just to get decent enough to use it. I'm finally getting comfortable with it.
I welded the two cut and spliced halves of that J bend, and set it into one of the hose ends to hold it for this pic. I'll still have to remove the radiator, so there's no point in making it permanent yet.
I'd say it's getting a little busy down there.
The rest of the day I spent starting to build the mount to hold the two oil coolers beneath the front bumper as depicted in my drawing from my last reply. That started by cutting a rectangular notch out of the bottom of the bumper.
The bracket is made out of a combination of 16ga, and 14 ga. mild steel.
I'm pretty happy w/ how it's gonna look.
Both coolers have -10 fittings, and I made the thing work so that those fittings, and the hoses that come to them will run through the bumper.
There'll be a shroud to completely encase the two coolers when I'm done, this is just the top, and bottom mounts.
There is an inch between the back of the coolers, and the cold side charge tube that runs behind them. I know that that thing gets pretty hot, I hope I don't have issues w/ heat soak making the coolers hotter than they'd be somewhere else.