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even if made from stainless, if you weight the section now and run it several months, then re-weight it
youll almost certainly find its lost weight as heat erosion has an effect and its compounded with a thermal barrier
yes stainless tends to corrode far slower than plain steel
 
anyone whos done this extensively should be impressed with the difficulty and high quality fabrication and welding pictured
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IF YOU WELD STAINLESS EXHAUST PIPE without a back flush,
you can get weld crystallizing or SUGARING ,
an ARGON back flush and taping both ends to exclude oxygen helps reduce this significantly as will tig paste
and use of the solar flux paste and back flush ,
usually helps considerably in making a nice looking weld,
if your building headers.

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http://www.solarflux.com/Pages/Productinfo.html

try to avoid crystallization it causes a restriction to flow and turbulence
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When im welding industrial piping i usualy use purge but these are low pressure pipes so i use root paste it works realy well,root is smooth with paste
 
I would rather do cold side piping from aluminum but its expensive and i can get stainless from work free so i use stainless
 
Not much brogress ,i did move pick up to my buddys shop where i make suspension and small things
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Trailing arms are under the car also found cheap adjustable competition engineering shocks and made cross beam that fits those shocks IMG_20200218_183520.jpg IMG_20200218_183505.jpg
 
Car is runing,i fabricated antiroll bar from chevy van front sway bar and fiat 127 control arms+ some scrap steel
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I love how you repurposed the trailing arms. How did you conclude that they where the ones to use. I only ask because of the weight and power difference between the fiat and a full size chevy truck.
Not knocking your build at all....I like it! I was just intrigued by your choice.
Keep up the great work
 
I used same parts my twin turbo oldsmobile build,i fabricated antiroll bar from fiat cast steel control arms
Trailing arms are reinforsed stock arms
 
I fabricated panhard bar from honda front swaybar(dark pickture)
Started to make bed floor boards and have to rebuild transmissions for pickup and my buddys chevelle
Also i make torque converter from bmw 11" converter and i use same specks that i used on my oldsmobile converter
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Im using bmw 11" torque converter for 4l80e, machine hubs,antibalooning plates and maybe have to fabricate stator
Here is picture from my oldsmobile converter
11" core,antibalooning plates,bolt on flanges and custom stainless stator
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Do you have a bigger photo possible ?

That's interesting that you can build your own stator. Do you use tools from work?
 
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