Welding and Fabrication Picture Thread!

[Supe]

Started out as a flat paper-thin fiberglass hood from a small company in NC that had E-prod molds.  Same for the front end.

The sheet metal hump itself is an air intake/cleaner assembly, still need to make a foam element to go in it.  The little black piece is just an ABS piece held on by allen bolts so I can get at the air cleaner hold down nut.  It ducts air from a box section that was welded to the firewall to draw fresh air from the cowl/wiper area.  It was the only way I could make something work with a tall 4150 style intake and 4150 throttle body without a big cowl induction hood which I didn't want.  It didn't look right with just a hole cut, so I built up a flange around it, and did the same this morning for the radiator cuts which are fed directly from an ABS airbox that vee's out around the radiator.  It's a bit short (the hood had more of a curve than I'd anticipated), so I need to find a thick seal to seal the assembly to the hood (probably use a garage door seal or something). 

Here's a bit better frontal view of both.  It just curves up and then you can see it drop down a bit to mate up to the firewall.  Looks better in photos than in person 

[largeorangefont]

Holy Shit! FINALLY!!

[1320king]

wait.... am i looking at CT plates?

[Supe]

wait.... am i looking at CT plates?

Only on the truck for about another week or so.  I used to live in CT next to Bridgeport. 

[1320king]

NO SHIT! hahaha 10 mins from me

[FabChild]

That FC Looks Bad! Good JOB!

Some more Weld pics. Mustang 1st Gen Upper Control arms. And A Pic from a GTO upper.








Hopefully the watermark doesn't bug anyone lol Have to try and put them I've had a few pics stolen by people putting them off as their own lol

[digitalsolo]

Watermark is a-ok, I think.

Your new camera rocks.   Those are really good pictures.

[FabChild]

Thanks Blake. Just using the Galaxy s3.  Much better than the "old" one haha

[FabChild]

Working on a fun project. Here is a Weld for a gm maf flange. Was pretty happy with the outcome after pulling an all nighter and burning this at 6 in the morning completly dead tired! Also LS7 Throttle body with 4" wiggins clamp installed!

[Supe]

Killer!  Nice job on the dissimilar thickness weld, especially with aluminum.

[FabChild]

Thanks! Supe yea it took abit of heat. The tube is 16ga but I had the machine set to 200 amps for that weld.

[Russell Walker]

Dissimilar like that is always hilarious. tungsten focused way far away from the actual seam.

This, despite being really simple is probably the nicest cage I've done, its in a Ford Cortina. The customer seems really pumped about it, always a good feeling.


Basic Jeep cage, plating in the baseplates for this took me a full day, trying to look online to see how other people did it gave me braindamage.


Closeup of the chassis to frame connection, you can see where I went out of position to in position, but whatever.


dopey fuel pump bracket, gets the most likes on IG since its dimpled. sigh.

[markfluko]

Noob question. Is the HAZ larger on that section of weld from you moving position or what?

[turbotalon1g]

Russell,

Any pics of the outside of the cortina?

[Russell Walker]

I'll get one tommorow, but I also did an exhaust and header for it and have this one.




the color is most likely from making a full pass, that first bit I was out of position so its actually 2-3 start/stops and the post flow to go with it.