Quote from: AJP turbo on December 01, 2016, 09:49:59 PM
Hell yes!..i love seeing the mod on other cars...nice welds...so how are you joining the plastic to metal?
Its going to be awesome
Way to turn a retarded eye sore into a functional piece....ford loves noisemakers lol...my mustang had a sound tube to the cabin...i turned it into a canal for my gauge wires lol
I found a welder who does great work whom I've used for a couple small jobs. He charged me $20 for the two welds. I'm happy; it looks a lot better than I could do, and since it's pretty much right on top of everything, I wanted it to look nice.
The plastic to metal is the tricky part and what I was alluding to when I said "time will tell if it holds up". I found a
304 stainless railing adapter on kegworks.com (heh heh) that is supposed to join two 1.5" OD tubes with 0.050" wall thickness. The OD of the stainless elbow shoulder (1.390"measured) is just a hair larger than the ID of the noisemaker port (1.385" measured). I used my bench grinder and just barely skimmed the surface of the metal elbow shoulder until I had a super tight friction fit inside the plastic elbow.
The shoulder on the elbow is about 1.3" long (the part that slides into the plastic elbow), so about 1" in on the plastic elbow, I put a ring of Permatex Ultra Copper Gasket Maker, and on the rest of it I used "JB Weld Plastic Bonder" which says "great for bonding Plastic to metal" (although I have read that it's not recommended for some plastics which happen to be common under the hood...). I pressed in the metal elbow with a slight twisting motion to spread the epoxy, and I'm going to let it set up over night.
I have pictures of all this that I will put in your how-to thread to explain better.
If it doesn't hold, I have a 1.5" silicone coupler I will install, assuming the waste gate doesn't blow off and fall out the bottom of my truck. HAHA
