Family man's ae86

[fantapants]

So nothing really big on the fab side lately.

Hit a bit of a wall over Chrissy with cash.

But have managed to stay busy while I wait for dining and ordered bits to finish the fuel system

Had a grand plan to come up with some long throttle trumpets. I chopped the ever living hell out of the stock intake manifold and salvaged the stock trumpets.

These are fairly heavily trimmed for clearance, so I spent a while filling out the flare. They have some natural bends that would help clear everything including the bonet lol.

Alas this just didn't work well enough to be happy with. The idea was sound I just lack the skills for aluminium welding to be happy with the outcome.

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So then I set about a second plan.

I've wanted a press for a while but never really had the motivation to make one.

So after I broke my 5kg sledge hammer trying to make a plug for pressing something, I bit the bullet and started welding...

I made a press.

I used the press

I broke the press... #bigtrainsmalltunell

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So is at about fixing things.

Now it's much heavier. But has survived.

The little 8t bottle jack ran out of grunt for my initial plan. I wanted to make a die and plug to press my own stainless trumpet ends out of so I could then weld them to 2inch chemical tube.

For a bit of a laugh I tried some spare tube I had to see how far I could flare it in situ.

Reasonable success yo be fair. If I can get a 3 or 4mm more flare on it with a larger jack, I'll call it a win. These will weld nicely to 2inch exhaust flanges, which happily enough have the perfect bolt spacing also to mount on the throttles.

I can vary the lengths easily and also add in perfect mandrel bends to clear stuff if I need.

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