Look what i just finished!!!
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The schedule for the weekend went like this....
Saturday:
9:30am - 02 civic EX arrived. Let it cool down
11:00am - started tearing it down.
3:00 pm - Marc arrived. Not finished with the civic yet.
7:00pm - test drove the civic, pulled SRT in while on test drive.
9:00pm - finished with civic, started tearing SRT apart.
11:45pm - went home to sleep.
Sunday:
9:30am - got back to the car, started on coolant and oil lines.
10:30am - started building a prototype header for another SRT member on Marc's car.
12:45pm - finished jiging manifold for other SRT4, started bolting manifold on
1:30pm - fabricated new wastegate mount, welded it to manifold, bolted manifold back on the car
3:30pm - fabricated 4" downpipe, fabicated 3" to 4" adaptor, fabricated dump tube, welded everything up (ran out of stainless MIG wire for tack welding, had to tack with the TIG, ran out of Argon for the tig, had to replace the TIG bottle with the MIG argon bottle)
7:30pm - started bolting newly fabricated parts back on.
8:30pm - installing injectors, battery, vaccum lines, charge pipes, etc back on
10:00pm - test drove car.
Saturday:
9:30am - 02 civic EX arrived. Let it cool down
11:00am - started tearing it down.
3:00 pm - Marc arrived. Not finished with the civic yet.
7:00pm - test drove the civic, pulled SRT in while on test drive.
9:00pm - finished with civic, started tearing SRT apart.
11:45pm - went home to sleep.
Sunday:
9:30am - got back to the car, started on coolant and oil lines.
10:30am - started building a prototype header for another SRT member on Marc's car.
12:45pm - finished jiging manifold for other SRT4, started bolting manifold on
1:30pm - fabricated new wastegate mount, welded it to manifold, bolted manifold back on the car
3:30pm - fabricated 4" downpipe, fabicated 3" to 4" adaptor, fabricated dump tube, welded everything up (ran out of stainless MIG wire for tack welding, had to tack with the TIG, ran out of Argon for the tig, had to replace the TIG bottle with the MIG argon bottle)
7:30pm - started bolting newly fabricated parts back on.
8:30pm - installing injectors, battery, vaccum lines, charge pipes, etc back on
10:00pm - test drove car.
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Originally Posted by gass03ex
4" downpipe = OVERKILL, well, unless your driving a Freightliner.
Like Corky Bell once said:
"The best turbo exhaust is no exhaust"
Anyway, if you had some 4" laying around, and you knew how to make parts, wouldnt you use it? Or would you rather go buy some 3"?
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