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Ive been looking at twin turbo pipes for months and months. they range from the nismo $2500 kit to the cheap,thin (Mod city)$300 kit.

Nothing reasonably priced and good quality.

So i decided to make a kit with a mate (The welder)

I have used 80mm x 3mm and 60mm x 2mm aliminium, lobster back style.

Ive made sure thay there is nothing to modify and the std airbox/air intake fits. Ive designed it for a R34 GTR, but id imagine it will fit any RB26

Ive also made sure there is a lip at the joins so the silicone doesnt blow off.

there was plenty of time spent designing not to mention the time to weld it.

this one was the first, a prototype to make sure it fits and did what it was supposed to do.

please feel free to tell me what you think and any improvements i could make, etc

mike

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Instead of running weld around the ends of your tube buy yourself a swaging machine and push a nice bead into the ends instead.

Welds work but look horrid and unprofessional.

I have a really good swager which cost me a small fortune but you can buy cheap ones from eBay for $300 that do a decent job.

A few tacks around the end is more than enough to stop the clamp coming off. Perhaps once you get a lathe you could make a basic bead roller as I plan to. (when I get time)

Your welds look good but the lobster bends are different angles which makes it look a bit weird, try and keep to one cut angle, narrower the better. Looks great otherwise. :thumbsup:

Yeah your right ill try to keep to one angle, was hard to keep one angle though with all the std parts I had to miss. Without them there it would of been easier.

The greddy/trust ones are good, I guess I wanted something to do, plus were not lobster back, also can't use std air box and intake

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Hi Mike,

by any chance, could you make a set for sale? Or maybe point me in the direction of the car "mod city" kit? Not looking to spend a fortune on a nismo or greddy kit. Hope you can help, cheers! 

Regards,

Darrel.

On 5/14/2011 at 2:34 PM, trick said:

Ive been looking at twin turbo pipes for months and months. they range from the nismo $2500 kit to the cheap,thin (Mod city)$300 kit.

Nothing reasonably priced and good quality.

So i decided to make a kit with a mate (The welder)

I have used 80mm x 3mm and 60mm x 2mm aliminium, lobster back style.

Ive made sure thay there is nothing to modify and the std airbox/air intake fits. Ive designed it for a R34 GTR, but id imagine it will fit any RB26

Ive also made sure there is a lip at the joins so the silicone doesnt blow off.

there was plenty of time spent designing not to mention the time to weld it.

this one was the first, a prototype to make sure it fits and did what it was supposed to do.

please feel free to tell me what you think and any improvements i could make, etc

mike

post-9995-0-56550100-1305357063_thumb.jpgpost-9995-0-82120200-1305357091_thumb.jpg

post-9995-0-27327700-1305354633_thumb.jpgpost-9995-0-96407400-1305354658_thumb.jpg

post-9995-0-32672000-1305354683_thumb.jpgpost-9995-0-87124400-1305354713_thumb.jpg

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Hi Mike,

by any chance, could you make a set for sale? Or maybe point me in the direction of the car "mod city" kit? Not looking to spend a fortune on a nismo or greddy kit. Hope you can help, cheers! 

Regards,

Darrel.

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