Diary of a Madman; TitaniumTT's see you @ DGRRXI RE-REbuild

[tweiss3]

Ok, i have read your entire thread, and thats some damn good work. Much props to you.

I do have a few questions, since I am looking at some tooling purchases.
1)What grade steel do you use for your body work and what thicknesses?
2)what type of welder do you use, I'm assuming TIG.
3)what gas do you use for your welding?
4)do you just cold bend all your pieces, or do you have a sheet metal bender?

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by tweiss3

Ok, i have read your entire thread, and thats some damn good work. Much props to you.

You read the entire thread in one sitting? Damn, how long did that take? And thanks!

Originally Posted by tweiss3

I do have a few questions, since I am looking at some tooling purchases.
1)What grade steel do you use for your body work and what thicknesses?

I haven't had to do much body work that required steel. Cutting out the rust I want to say it was standard A36. It was .063" thick. All the work that I did to the hood was all AL, that was mostly .063", some .050" and that would have been 5052 for it's formability.

Originally Posted by tweiss3

2)what type of welder do you use, I'm assuming TIG.

If I'm welding steel, it's almost always MIG welding, SS sometimes MIG, sometimes TIG. AL is always TIG. I tried the spoolgun thing, and it just doesn't work cery well, for me anyway... well it works, but it looks like bubblegum birdshit

Originally Posted by tweiss3

3)what gas do you use for your welding?

Depends on the base metal. SS is tri-mix, steel is 75%argon 25%Co2, AL is 100% argon.... I've been meaning to try the helium mix on some of the thicker AL, but haven't really been welding much thick stuff lately. That is changing though as I'm helping a local Rotor head twin-charge his FD and we're mounting the Eaton SuperCharger where the P/S pump once lived.

Originally Posted by tweiss3

4)do you just cold bend all your pieces, or do you have a sheet metal bender?

I built a sheel metal brake out of some 5/16 or 3/8 mild steel "L" Cost like $30 in materials to get a 36" brake... I think it's 36" It works well. For smaller, tighter bends I've got a vise mounted brake that works well... actually I think it's the only thing that I've ever bought from HF that was actually worth the shipping :smilielol:

[RX SE7EN]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Depends on the base metal. SS is tri-mix, steel is 75%argon 25%Co2, AL is 100% argon.... I've been meaning to try the helium mix on some of the thicker AL, but haven't really been welding much thick stuff lately. That is changing though as I'm helping a local Rotor head twin-charge his FD and we're mounting the Eaton SuperCharger where the P/S pump once lived.

That's right So I guess I'm part of the reason why Brian doesn't have more of his checklist complete. Hopefully I can give him a hand to return the favors over the next few weeks though.

I'll have a build thread up by the end of next weekend so everyone can see the welding talent. (please don't ask any questions about the setup in this thread)

The Supercharger bracket formerly known as the power steering pump/AC bracket.


So pretty:

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by RX SE7EN

That's right So I guess I'm part of the reason why Brian doesn't have more of his checklist complete. Hopefully I can give him a hand to return the favors over the next few weeks though.

I'll have a build thread up by the end of next weekend so everyone can see the welding talent. (please don't ask any questions about the setup in this thread)

The Supercharger bracket formerly known as the power steering pump/AC bracket.
So pretty:

You're not the reason, the Landi is the reason, and beyond that it's my body shop that fucked me out of more than a week by painting the damn firewall the wrong color. Hopefully I'll be dropping that off to be re-sprayed tomorrow though.

End of NEXT weekend? C'mon man!!! And where the fuck ya been???? We got some welding to do damnit. Oh, and to answer your question from the txt, I think that mounting the tensioner there is going to be very difficult to make it strong. In order to mount it there the load is going to be against the thin part of the mount, not the thick part. I think it's worth looking at again how to make the SC adjustable to get tension.

[RX SE7EN]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

You're not the reason, the Landi is the reason, and beyond that it's my body shop that fucked me out of more than a week by painting the damn firewall the wrong color. Hopefully I'll be dropping that off to be re-sprayed tomorrow though.

End of NEXT weekend? C'mon man!!! And where the fuck ya been???? We got some welding to do damnit. Oh, and to answer your question from the txt, I think that mounting the tensioner there is going to be very difficult to make it strong. In order to mount it there the load is going to be against the thin part of the mount, not the thick part. I think it's worth looking at again how to make the SC adjustable to get tension.

Haha, well ok, the Landi is the true reason. Work is killing me though, now have to go to FL until saturday night. I'll shoot you a text, hopefully we can do something sunday. I got all of the flanges traced out last night, so I just need to get cutting.

What's the eta on the BNR's? Are you getting those cermamic coated as well?