Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster

[Jorge]

Almost an hour to make the slash cut tip...good call skip...well worth it...

[Drewfus]

Almost an hour to make the slash cut tip...good call skip...well worth it...

yep, classy.

I share the lust of S.S., tis a bugger to tinker with, but built to last.

Keep at it, enjoying seeing your progress.

Cheers,

Drewfus

[Skip Pipes]

Wow Sparky – Salty Mistress, I like that, she’s got an appropriate name now.

And seeing as how she’s a Mistress, she is a demanding one.

The wastegate was jealous and wanted it’s own sexy exhaust.
 
Next project is the turbo inlet.

Hey Buddy – Supper job making HP. Put it to good use. You bringing the car to Elmo in May? If so, I'll see you there.
 
Tman - thanks for the comments.

Drewfus – Yep, stainless is tough to work with. I built a bead roll tool using a vice-grip, as my bead roller can’t handle stainless.  I’ll put it to work this weekend and see how it works on stainless.

[Jorge]

You've been kicking butt...during the week...NICE...see you this weekend...

This sentence should be better...i hope..

[gotzy]

Nice fab work guys, well worth the investment in time and effort!!

[gotzy]

Someone been busy building then?

[Skip Pipes]

Yep, we've been busy taking one step forward, two back. I'll post some progress pics on the "Salt Mistress" after this weekends work.

[Skip Pipes]

I spent a solid month of nights and weekends working on the turbo inlet and air scoop.

Because I built the car for a Chevy V-8 (my mistake) the turbo inlet had to go over the front suspension tower so it could meet up with the air scoop. For the turbo inlet I used a 5 inch Diesel stack and bends that I spliced together.

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Once I got the inlet positioned on the tower I started fabricating the slip joint for the scoop.
I cut some 2” strip used 5” aluminum blank to form the slip joint.
The scoop on the other hand took the longest to fabricate.
It was slow going trying to get scoop to transition design right. The challenge was having the inlet coming through the grill shell and needing to slant upward under the grill shell and join up with the slip joint.

For the scoop itself I started by mocking up several shapes in cardboard until I got what I liked.

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I built a radius bar to bend the scoop up. Clamped it to the bench and bent the scoop up. Built it in 2 pieces and welded it down the sides.

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Here is the finished scoop.

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I then moved on to the firewall. I built one that I really didn’t like, so I cut it up, used it for a pattern. The new one is 0.100” thick aluminum. Its cleaner, better fitting and I like it. The really hard part was refitting the hood and side panels to the new firewall. 

[DND]

Hi Skip

Very nice alum fab work, what class will you run in with that blown engine and what is the record?

Have you picked out a color for the car.

Don

[Koncretekid]

Skip,
You make it look so easy, I almost think you might know what you're doing! 
What thickness of aluminum are you using?
What alloy and heat treatment?
What method of welding?
I admire people who are are so talented in their crafts - - such a foreign concept to me!  I spent 38 years in the precast concrete business and still couldn't get 10 panels of concrete to be all the same color.  My modus operandus is simply "git 'er done" and sometimes it ain't so pretty.

Tom