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Suspension/Brakes/Wheels / Re: Alignment spec's
« on: October 25, 2012, 12:27:08 AM »
looks like they put everything within factory specs. Is that what you wanted? if you wanted a more aggressive for street driving or track you will need a custom set of specs and most likely have to listen to some tech or salesman talk to you about what could happen. A lot of techs don't know about setting alignment for performance least the ones is work with.

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Fabrication / Re: Stainless TIG issues..... PLEASE help
« on: October 24, 2012, 01:27:14 AM »
CHECK THIS OUT.

"Pure Tungsten is Pure crap! dont use it. I dont use it at all. Even on transformer machines like the syncrowave 250. But when using Inverter type tig machines ..definitely do not ever use pure tungsten. Miller Electrics Customer support Department routinely get calls from customers who bought a Dynasty inverter and are having poor arc starts. 9 times out of 10 they are using pure tungsten and simply switching to ceriated or lanthanated fixes it."

from here. 

http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/gas-tungsten-arc-welding-video-clips.html

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Fabrication / Re: Stainless TIG issues..... PLEASE help
« on: October 24, 2012, 01:23:26 AM »

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Fabrication / Re: Stainless TIG issues..... PLEASE help
« on: October 24, 2012, 12:54:41 AM »
Isn't the 200dx and inverter machine? I thought you didn't want to use pure tungsten on an inverter? though everyone was using 1.5% or 2% lanthanated for the majority of stuff. I use 2% lanthanated on my 250ex for everything an the only time i get black stuff in my aluminum is when the material is dirty or I touch tungsten to the puddle.

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Interior/Exterior / Re: Opinion: Too ricey?
« on: October 20, 2012, 07:28:41 PM »
You ask if it's too ricey AFTER you painted your car orange and put a widebody kit on it  :scratch:

this car is far from being ricey, even though i don't find that car to be my taste it's extremely well done. It's funny how some people define rice, I know people who would call any rx7 rice and others who would drive a honda with 20in montegi wheels and racing stripes to a car show and call everyone haters.....

i say fuck it, more gauges the better, not knowing what's going on in your engine is for simpletons.



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Fabrication / Re: Welding Picture Thread!
« on: October 19, 2012, 06:02:52 PM »
did some more aluminum drills since i haven't in awhile, progress feels good, I'm up to over 140amps on 1/8th aluminum now which even feels more natural. I probably did 10 tee joints today and never dipped my tungsten once, which is a miracle to me since i was doing it once or twice a joint when i first started. then i did some multipass+ weave free hand on 1/8th steel. It's amazing the difference in bead width and rod feed from steel to aluminum. when i do the aluminum i probably ram a good 1/2in of 3/32 rod in every dip, on steel it's just a tap of the rod. the first pass on the 1/8th steel is about 3/16, so not much more wider then the material itself. second pass is just a zig zag dipping action. i'm still not comfortable walking the cup or doing laywire yet, but i suppose that will take some serious hood time. doing the t joints on aluminum really helps you get good faster since it forces you to adapt to heat changes, you can see some grain in the end of the aluminum, since the shit heats up quick as hell. do a shit ton of aluminum then switch to steel= cake walk.



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The Lounge / Re: The Music Thread
« on: October 18, 2012, 12:45:05 AM »
best metal i've heard in AWHILE.


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Suspension/Brakes/Wheels / Re: FC Front Strut Tower Brace Bar
« on: October 16, 2012, 09:21:58 PM »
yeah painted with some duplicolor prism clearcoat over black, and the hose came with the coolant surge tank from powered by max so it's like the super jdm spec version of US hose. imma be nice and not post anymore stuff in this thread though unless it's relevant to strut tower bars though lol.

like a year ago.



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Suspension/Brakes/Wheels / Re: FC Front Strut Tower Brace Bar
« on: October 15, 2012, 10:41:20 PM »
Already posted this in the welding pic thread, but i got some more pics. all cut/ bent/ and tigged by me. took about a week.


I'm more interested in your custom hood prop.  How much for you to make me one?

lol, i got a steel hood or i would have hood shocks, i have a aluminum hood in the basement just deciding on what type hood vent i want or if i'm going to build my own into it. Once that's on and i got hood shocks you can get that prop for $100 shipped, it's like burl wood or some shit from the moon.

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Suspension/Brakes/Wheels / Re: FC Front Strut Tower Brace Bar
« on: October 14, 2012, 01:57:11 PM »
Already posted this in the welding pic thread, but i got some more pics. all cut/ bent/ and tigged by me. took about a week.



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Fabrication / Re: Welding Picture Thread!
« on: October 13, 2012, 11:47:50 PM »
Thanks for the comment, machine is Everlast 250ex with their cooler. I'm gonna pick up a Miller Dynasty when funds allow, this has been doing great so far though.

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Fabrication / Re: Welding Picture Thread!
« on: October 13, 2012, 09:26:21 PM »
so once i get my caster situation figured out, i'm going to triangulate this to the firewall.  :D didn't even clean off the leaves.


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Fabrication / Re: Welding Picture Thread!
« on: October 12, 2012, 11:42:23 PM »
yeah 4 1/4in holesaw on my drill press, and A LOT of prep, like getting all the runout possible out of the saw, clamping, and making sure the base was parallel to the saw. wasn't that bad just really fucking loud. i'm hoping to finish this project tomorrow after work. got my tubes rolled and welded in and the center section is cut out and dimple died just need to weld it on. now anybody ever clear coat aluminum? 

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Fabrication / Re: Welding Picture Thread!
« on: October 11, 2012, 07:05:17 PM »
Finally got to try some 1/4in aluminum! took about 6hrs total to cut these bad boys out by hand, drill all the holes, and make'm look pretty. I think i welded at like 189amps, which is cold for 1/4in aluminum but i had some preheat with a torch. The inside was an absolute bitch, make sure to turn down the gas by about half or bad shit happens. lets just say the first one wasn't as pretty lol. I'm  happy how they turned out with my first try at 1/4in. and just got my tubing roller in just waiting on tubing for the rest. my ripple spacing consistency has gone up a shit ton, as well as controlling the puddle in general. now i just got to work on my dip hand a little so they all fill out shiny.






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i'm with you on the no aluminum, mine are currently aluminum and i've done my own alignment 3 times in a time period of about 3 months. after they were set the first time they were hella out the next 2 times. gonna switch out the aluminum for that style.


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