Springfield Flyer.

[tauruck]

Two views of the tacked end.

[tauruck]

After a whole lot of heating, hammering and welding
I have three sides spot on.

The top radius is next but holding the part in the vise is a PITA.

If you put too much pressure on the round side it deforms.
Another pair of hands are required to get the tubes and clamps
in position but I know a guy.....
It will come right eventually.

The elbows side by side.

[Buickguy3]

  Mike, We had the same problem, but went to Frank's Wife Robin's wood shop and comandeered a piece of oak and put it on the belt sander and made it the shape of the turbo flange opening and then clamped it in the vise and massaged the pipe to the shape of the chunk of wood. It worked but I wouldn't want to try to make a living doing that stuff.
   Doug 

[tauruck]

Hey Doug, I hear you. I have a piece of wild olive and I'm going to
shape that to help with the second elbow. Thanks for the tip.

I love the challenge. This is what keeps the mind sharp.
Every task is something new. Stuff you wake up in the morning for.

I don't know what non LSR guys do but it can't beat this.
Once the pipes are done and the turbos are in place the chassis will get the final welding.

I need to pull the motor and box so I can flip it over to add the floor mounting tabs.

[SPARKY]

The shape  the nose is a cone lying flat and the aversion on my part to go with a single latch.

But we are committed now and are moving forward-- We think.
 Francis is a "glass" lover like yourself.

[tauruck]

I hope you came right with the project Sparky?.
Remember what you all said about overkill?.

A few small developments here.

Some of my parts went to paint.!!!!!!!!? WTF.
Spies Hecker are the paint sponsors and they offered so I gave them what
ever I could.

5 parts. The sub frame that the carbon tub bolts to and the canisters for the Nitrogen.
They have an awesome facility so the finish should be up to scratch.

Still working on the headers. I needed T4 turbo mounting plates.
I called Kyle and he told me where to buy them. 80 bucks each (about $6 in your money).

Real bargain but the store is near the airport and I hate traffic and if there's a problem on
the freeway you could be stuck for hours.

I had some material so I decided to keep my sanity and fabricate my own.
I used the gasket as a template and engineering blue to mark the plates.

I drilled the holes for the bolts and then punched 4 holes using the hole saw.
Used the cut off wheel to cut out the centres. Took a while but I've got one
done. Pics later.

[wobblywalrus]

It is like that here, Mike.  It is more fun and relaxing to make simple things rather than drive out and buy them.

[tauruck]

I know guys here in racing that would just send a driver out to buy the stuff and get someone else
to build the system.

That's what makes this forum great. The guys do all their own fab work for the most part and we learn from each other.
You can't buy the education I've gotten here.
This liner would never have gotten off the ground if it wasn't for the forum.

[tauruck]

I finished the T4 plates and they turned out great.

When bolting them up to the turbo I could see that they
matched pretty well but I needed to open them up by 2mm
so as to have the elbows inside the plates.

That also went well. I used my Makita mini belt sander for
the first time. Great tool.

[tauruck]

The elbows were pretty difficult to position inside the flange
but eventually I massaged the one into place and put a tack weld
where I wanted it.

After that a few taps with the hammer had the edge of the elbow
flush with the mating surface of the flange.

Second, third and fourth tacks. All good.

Now I had something substantial I could grip in the vise.
The corners on the elbow never quite matched the inside of the
flange so I used the torch to warm the material and stretched it
with a ball peen hammer. The gaps were only 1mm or so.

[tauruck]

In the previous post you can see air gaps on the right hand side.
Those will be closed up on stage two.

I welded the long sides and will go back to heating and stretching the metal later.

So far so good.

[Peter Jack]

Mike, you continue to do really nice work! 

Pete

[SPARKY]

Mike,  I made hold fixtures out of angle iron scrap and hose clamps so that I could hold the pipes at a good angle for my poor welding skills.

[tauruck]

Thanks Pete. Coming from you this means a lot.

Sparky, thanks. I'll have to make a plan and what you did sounds like a good one.

[fordboy628]

Just awesome fabrication!!

 
Mark