LGAFF master fabricator...ok thats a stretch

[LGAFF]

The Siamese plenum I did I picked up from the Phrog man for a good price.....but the MAP senor brackets were hacked off...
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q115/lgaff/DSCN4521.jpg

So I figured I would fix it....

Drilled a 6mm hole for stud

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q115/lgaff/DSCN4522.jpg

Tapped a aluminum spacer from ACE
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q115/lgaff/DSCN4523.jpg

and alittle JB....

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q115/lgaff/DSCN4524.jpg

Alittle sanding and it will look stock

[XfireZ51]

BRILLIANT!

[Blue Flame Restorations]

It's nice being able to do your own work. Feels good, too.

Good job.

[LGAFF]

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q115/lgaff/DSCN4529.jpg

Good enough

[VetteMed]

Looks like it'll do the job.

[QB93Z]

Nice job Lee.

Jim

[tomtom72]

Now that's what I'm talkin' about! :thumbsup: Lee!



Yea, it does make you feel good when you can get stuff like that dunn!

[Paul Workman]

Not half bad, Lee! Course powder coating is out of the question, I suppose. I have some "Alumaweld" and a video that shows just such type of reconstruction of aluminum castings. I've played around with the stuff some, and I'm intrigued by how well it might work in just that kind of application. If that epoxy doesn't work out, give me a call, and lets see if this Alumaweld stuff is all its cracked up to be!

P.

[LGAFF]

Paul this stuff is good to 600 degrees.....so I am not sure that you could not PC....I used Alumiweld to fill my siamese intake......the issue is getting the parent metal hot enough..I waqs successful once.

I was using MAP...I think with an Oxy torch it would work. Also check out muggyweld.com

[LGAFF]

This is the metal putty not the 2 part epoxy....

[RHanselman]

Lee,

Is that really a Siamese plenum? I thought I saw what looked like stock runners in one of the pics. Do you have a pic of the whole plenum? Or are you going to make this one Siamese?

Is it going on your car? ;)

Cheers,
RH

[LGAFF]

http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q115/lgaff/?action=view&current=189.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q115/lgaff/DSCN3804.jpg

[RHanselman]

Cool... for some reason the first pic won't work for me only the second shows up which a picture of the bottom of the plenum. From the bottom it looks like it's opened up real nice but it doesn't look to be a Siamese Plenum. I was wondering if you were going to attempt that yourself because I know its takes lots of cutting and welding. I might take a Fabrication Course at the local Community College and learn how to do such things... My daughter wants me to use my VA benefits to get a PHD but I'd rather get a welding certificate! :)

Cheers,
Ron

[DaveK]

My daughter wants me to use my VA benefits to get a PHD but I'd rather get a welding certificate! :)

Cheers,
Ron

You can probably earn more as a welder ;)

[LGAFF]

Cool... for some reason the first pic won't work for me only the second shows up which a picture of the bottom of the plenum. From the bottom it looks like it's opened up real nice but it doesn't look to be a Siamese Plenum. I was wondering if you were going to attempt that yourself because I know its takes lots of cutting and welding. I might take a Fabrication Course at the local Community College and learn how to do such things... My daughter wants me to use my VA benefits to get a PHD but I'd rather get a welding certificate! :)

Cheers,
Ron

Ron there is no center divider the length of the plenum and 1.5" into the heads, so its a siamese....it is not a monorunner....welded, etc..

[LGAFF]

Shot through IH into the head

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q115/lgaff/Picture079.jpg

[LGAFF]

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q115/lgaff/188-1.jpg

[RHanselman]

Copy... I never heard Mono-Runner Plenum in our circles even though it makes sense. In the old days those all were referred to as Siamese Plenums because they combined two ports into one which is the engineering definition of Siamese.

As far as porting goes, again in the old days you had several different levels of port. One of them was the open runner port then known as a "full port" which meant removing all the material between the runners. Even though they didn't refer to this as Siamese it meets the engineering definition of combining two ports however, we always left that designation to what you call the "mono runner."

Terminology does change, I just have to get use to it. It took me six months to figure out that when my boy said my car sounded SICK that it was actually a good thing...

After all these years I still can learn... :o

Cheers,
Ron

http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m578/rhanselman/SiaPlen.jpg

[LGAFF]

final product...

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q115/lgaff/DSCN4580.jpg

Here is the before...MAP brackets cut off..

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q115/lgaff/DSCN4521.jpg