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Originally Posted by freebeard
I was mainly impressed with the thickness of the mounting plate. I assume in the before pic, that that's just a gasket.
Was it as shiny on the inside? Or was the weld penetration short of the inner surface? Extrude honed?
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Yes just the gasket in the 'before' pic. The manifold flange was cut out on a chalked plate by oxy, and then I filed and ground it to shape. Took me a while!
The insides of the manifold were pretty good. I didn't have a welder then and so I had a professional weld it together - interestingly, he did it with a stick welder. We did the welding in a number of steps, using a die grinder inside as required where there was excess penetration.