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Ideola Liquid to Air Intercooler Install
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Mike9311  



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:32 am    Post subject: Ideola Liquid to Air Intercooler Install Reply with quote

So I am back at it again...

Trying to bang this out before the Sept gathering.

At least 7 re-designs and 7 3D printed plastic test pieces before being happy "enough" to go to machining. Not even sure if this will work out. Would have/should have 3d printed in Alum but here goes nothing.







Keep in mind this is only partially roughed out

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooh! Want want want!
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ideola wrote:
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooh! Want want want!




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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jesus! Mights as well have milled it from a cubic foot
Why didnt you cast that? Would have been easy and cheap.
Or have it from a bent pipe and a milled flange...ic looks welded so..
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

morghen wrote:
Jesus! Mights as well have milled it from a cubic foot
Why didnt you cast that? Would have been easy and cheap.
Or have it from a bent pipe and a milled flange...ic looks welded so..


Haha, around here we often joke about the Americans fondness of billet everything, whether it's needed is less important

Great work! Seems fun, and i guess you have great machines at your work place. Sometimes i wish i didn't work at such a big place, almost everything fun (like borrowing the cool machines) is forbidden..
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Casting is neither easy nor cheap. Trust me, I've looked. You can't find anyone who will do any alu casting for less than 10,000 pieces. And we've already seen what new cast GTR manifolds go for.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Au contrair. Casting is cheap and easy. As I mentioned before in a different thread I had a quote of $5,000 Cdn. to make a mold for casting new 931 exhaust manifolds. After that you simply pay a small set-up fee for each run and then by the pound for the raw material. Inconel 625 was quoted to me at $2/lb.

Mike's little part is ridiculously simple for a mold. The problem is finding enough people to cough up the dough to split the mold cost. Each unit after that would be peanuts though.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The whole idea wasn't mine since I too thought it a tad crazy. I was challenged by my father.

Obviously I am doing it because I have the equipment but by no means did I think it was optimal. Normally this is fun but I am struggling a tad right now on my approach

Two things did push me to at least try though. First I have seen something like this done so I wanted to see if I could and, second, to push the skills a bit. If I can't do this, I certainly cant do anything "head" related. Ultimately that's where I am headed down the road.

Somewhere back in my mind I think often of what CarreraRSR did with making something look like it was supposed to be there all along. I tip my hat to Steve frequently and I hope this turns out that way.

Maybe I should just cast it myself I'll think about it since I did do something like that once long ago...
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kenodog wrote:
Au contrair. Casting is cheap and easy. As I mentioned before in a different thread I had a quote of $5,000 Cdn. to make a mold for casting new 931 exhaust manifolds. After that you simply pay a small set-up fee for each run and then by the pound for the raw material. Inconel 625 was quoted to me at $2/lb.

Mike's little part is ridiculously simple for a mold. The problem is finding enough people to cough up the dough to split the mold cost. Each unit after that would be peanuts though.


You'd be lucky to get 10 buyers, so just for the mold cost alone, that's $500 per piece. Maybe we have a different idea of cheap.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

While it may be true that my version of reality is different than most other peoples', I still maintain that you could sell brand new Inconel 931 manifolds all day long.

When someone is spending 30,000 Sterling on a ride they will not be abject to coughing up a measly 500 more for a new-made NOS manifold.

We don't ghetto stuff around here. Do it right is the quote of the day.




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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kenodog wrote:
I still maintain that you could sell brand new Inconel 931 manifolds all day long.

Sounds like a great candidate for a group buy.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 7:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always wished there was a way to create divided runners in a thinner walled manifold. Hopefully looking stock on the outside or at least close

Thought about it and started...but didn't take it much farther.


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 8:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike9311 wrote:


I'll take two.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sign me up for a cast inconnel manifold:) ! I think you need to get closer to the euro scene and the historic racing/rallying guys, lots of dough in that world. And 931s have been popping up at alot of events. 25k pounds for new bdg engine for your ford escort, people obviously have money to spend. Maybe it would be a wise thing to get mittlemotor in Germany into the deal, I guess that's how you could get the volumes up and make such an idea into reality.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seriously, for 500 I would take two, maybe 3 or 4.

I know mittlemotor wont be charging 500
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