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Old 08-28-2020, 07:37 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
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?
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.
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