And some creativity and know how. Don't let your welder hold you back!

Homemade turbo manifold

Are you a member on there? Where the hell are people getting cheap mild steel weld el's at?

I should join that one, I'm 30min from west ky.

Never heard of it, had a friend send it to me.

I would be worried about getting enough penetration with a tiny 90 amp welder. I built a top mount manifold with the same pipe last year, tacked it with my flux cored at home and took it to work to weld it up. It took a lot of amps to get good penetration on that thick of steel. I did V groove the pipes and ran 2 passes over each joint. Turned out very nice.

I picked up a bunch of my Weld els off ebay, some guy was selling a lot of them for like $30. I think there was 12 in there if I remember right.

It's mild steel, I would think 80-100 amps should be enough. But that is just my guess. Especially if the ends are beveled.

minus the ? of penetration it looks like it got the job done. probs to him for doing work.


+1 to cheap weld els... im sick of this 7-10 dollars a piece garbage...

i want to know how he figured in the provisions for the external's i guess cut a hole...place the pipe on there...and weld the flange to the piece of pipe you entered into the hole?