I have a 8 -10 foot peice of 1 1/2" id stainless pipe in the garage. can it be used for anything, oh, and the sidewalls are THICK like, 1/4". Can I use this to build a manifold? if not, what could I use? is the prebent stuff in the autoparts stores worth anything?
I also have a big peice of 2 1/2" id stainless, that is polished https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png Thats gonna be intercooler piping. |
1/4" thick wall steel tubing, hrm, sounds like a ballast weight er i mean font bumper support from a old porsche.
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yea, its heavy. lol, but the stock one is no light weight!!
but, will it work? |
sure if you can weld it.
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Originally Posted by venomrx7' date='Mar 14 2004, 03:58 AM
yea, its heavy. lol, but the stock one is no light weight!!
but, will it work? good luck bending it, you will need a decent welder to get penetration on 1/4" steel too. I don't recommend using it for this purpose personally, get something thinner, easier to work with, and lighter. |
thats kinda what I figured, what can I use that would work better? and how thick do my plates need to be where it bolts to the engine or turbo?
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If you can, Inconel or 304 S.S. ? (i think that's the good stuff)
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Originally Posted by GarageBoy' date='Mar 14 2004, 12:56 AM
If you can, Inconel
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1.25" is too small ID main runners. 1/4" wall is over kill also. I made mine out of 304" sch 10 pipe. It has a wall thickness of 1/8 and is cheep. I got the weld els from mcmaster.com for 4-5 bucks a piece and went to the local steel yard and picked up the pipe for cheep also. I made my flanges from 1/2" 304. I'd stick to 1/2 so it won't warp as easy when you weld it.
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Thanks!! is there somewhere I can get prebent? I don't have access to a bender https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/sad.png
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