Well I had started a build thread a few years ago and then life kids and school took over. Well I found some time and money to build the hotside and headers.

This is my first attempt at building a set of headers. The welds could be cleaner, but overall I am pleased so far

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Attempt hell, you almost got one side done!!!
Looking damn good for your first set.

 

Hey thanks man! I just fixed a broken liner in my welder and figured I need the practice

 

practice away , nice job sofar

 

Looks great !
When I built my set I had problems with the coating that comes
on the tubing. I used lacquer thinner and a wire wheel on my grinder to get the weld joints clean
down to the base metal . I also pre-heated my tubing with a small torch, not red hot, just a little heat, this will also help with cold starts
on your wire.

 

Thanks for the tip. I welded a few coupons before starting the headers, but since this is my first set I think maybe I had a small case of the nerves and lost sight of the butt joint in a few places. Then had to go back and reweld making some of the welds kinda ugly

 

Finished the last tube. Now I have to fill in the gap between the primary tubes inside the collector and weld the collector on

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The header looks killer !
Header building is kinda fun.

 

Yeah I have enjoyed this. Hot Rod fabrication is fun all around

 

i have the will but not the fabricationskills i tried welding stainless a while back and i still hurt thinking about the sunburn it gave my face , used to tack stuff looking away with my eyes closed , thats sumting you dont want to do with stainless aspecially more than once , it hurted to even blink ..... or flinch

 

Those look awesome! Was that a weld up kit you bought or individual bends and flanges?

 

I just bought 2.00" J-bends from summit with a 3.00" bend radius (8 total but I think I will need 2 more for the driver side). I got the flanges from stainless headers and the formed collectors (2.00" primary to 3.00" collector) from SPD and got to work. All mild steel. Oh and the V-bands and flanges are dynatech, though it seems there are better interlocking ones out there. Oh well live and learn

Ouch...

 

headers look good!!

 

Passenger side done

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Surely you aren't going to be using those heads with a 106mm, so make sure you take into account any port relocation of the heads you will be using. Don't want to build such a nice set only to find out an exhaust port relocation made them hit something.

 

Yeah I thought about that. Most aftermarket heads have an exhaust port about .400" higher so I left room for that. I'm not going to build the crossover until I can afford a set of heads either. Thanks for the input. All criticism is welcome

 

looks good man. You sure this is the first set youve ever built?

 

Yeah I just put the collector where I wanted it and connected the dots

 

well they look really good man. any plans for you to do the chassis work like the cage or sub-frame connectors?

 

Thanks. I am going to do the cage but I need to buy a tig welder first. I want to use chromoly the first time. I am also narrowing and building the Dana 60. I'll post pics of that as the build progresses