Titanium Front Pipe For My Gtr

[GTR81]

Got a few pics of the titanium front pipe I made for my 33 GTR

It's twin 75mm equal length tube into a single 100mm

[wedge_r34gtr]

Sexy

[Shoota_77]

That's a very nice lobster you have there!

[noone]

Sexy

X11ty

[Adz2332]

wow thats impressive! where did you source and how much was the titanium piping for this?

[Risking]

Very nicely done.

[Duncan]

farking that's a lot of welds!

[Roy]

Mega patience right there

Any pics of the ID?

[Risking]

Is it purged? looks like its been done in atmosphere?

I admire the patience of people who do lobster stuff all the time.

[GTR81]

Thanks for the comments,

got the titanium from titanium joe in the US.

yeah it is purged brad and i got a trailing gas setup on the tig torch but your never going to get perfect coverage with it, and i dont do enough to justify buying a bag.

i did think about making up a box to weld it in but that is alot of work for one front pipe.

for those that dont know titanium ideally needs to be welded in an argon bag/purge chamber as it reacts to the atmosphere way more than most other metals that i know of.

yep lots of patience

[brenton21]

looks awesome.

[Risking]

Well done for atmosphere welding it.

Next time of you don't already have one buy a gas lense and and get one with a large clear shroud.

They improve the gas coverage 10 fold.

[GTR81]

Yeah I have got one, the main problem was so many welds so close together and being so thin there was nowhere for the heat to go

A pic of the setup I used if anyone is interested

[Nur33]

Very Nice work mate , we are about to start construction of our 4" Titanium Dump pipe/side pipe for drag car cut all the rings up for lobster bends this week. Just gonna fusion weld the joins and with trailing gas attached to the hand piece, pretty simple really. Will post pic's when we do it.

[GTR-N1]

Work of art!

"...belongs in a museum"

[R32GOJIRA]

I WANT ONE!!!!!!

Sooooo sexy

You dont wana make me one do you?

[Adz2332]

Stupid question, excluding your time, what was it worth to make? ie titanium, plus consumables etc

[GTR81]

all up it cost about $1000 not exactly sure as i bought a bit extra titanium for a few other things,

the 75mm tube was $400 delivered and that was with about 50mm left over

the 100mm tube and plate for the flanges was about $150

the 100mm titanium v-band was $150

and i used a bit over 1 G size argon at $300 to refill

so it was by no means a cheap exercise but then again the only equal length titanium front pipe that i've seen is the mines one and they are over 2 grand and only

have an 80mm outlet or something.

the midori one looks like good buying for around $1350 or so but thats not equal length and only 90mm outlet.

I have no idea if the equal length does do much for the performance or not but i just done it because it can't hurt and i could.

it was worth the money just to hear the sound of it, and also for anyone wondering it weighs 2.6kg

[GTR81]

I WANT ONE!!!!!!

Sooooo sexy

You dont wana make me one do you?

sorry mate i've hardly got time to work on my own cars

[Risking]

Shop around for your argon. I pay about $110 a refill through BOC. I went to supa gas for a while but their helium mixes were crap so negotiated with BOC and moved back to them.