That s*** gets old in a hurry. Did that for a couple of small sections coming off the headers and almost had the two ends tied together until there needed to be changes made to compensate for the oil cooler lines. Now almost everything needs to be redone, even the ‘Y’ pipe I got from
@Sheck44 was chopped up and reformed to something more of what I was going for, would now require welding on another piece, making it look like Frankenstein’s forehead. Think I might use the 3” collector from it and make another version with less welds on it.
I think my biggest problem is not taking the time to meticulously clean every joint before welding. Sometimes can fit two pieces together and make one tack without any filler no problem. Turn it around to tack the other side and blow a hole through it! Most video tutorials I’ve seen these guys are spending two hours sanding and buffing joints inside and out with Scotchbrite pads, and getting every angle perfect on a vertical bandsaw then making the cuts perfectly flat on a belt sander.
I roll my eyes and say to myself, “You gotta be kidding me with this s***!” The stuff I’ve welded so far was cut with a cut-off wheel, lucky to be buffed with a pad and really lucky to not have some gap to it. Just too impatient for all that, but need to step up and get more sophisticated with the process.