lucifus
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Well it's been a long time since I done any work to the old beast. My new years resolution this year was to teach myself to weld. So I snapped up a Clarke 151TE MIG welder on a machine mart VAT free day a few weeks back. I decided to start my learning off by fabricating myself a 3" bore stainless steel exhaust. I currently had a mild steel 2.25" straight though system that was welded for me by my local land rover place. Now a 2.25 bore is fine and it sounded pretty cool. Not too loud but a definite growl. I was hoping for a deeper growl from a larger bore and that's what I got. I purchased 3x 1m lengths of straight stainless pipe on ebay along with a premade 2.25" to 3" adapter. I then pie cut the tubes to create the shape. I fully heat wrapped the exhaust up to the adapter to where it goes back to the 2.25 mild steel section and bolts onto the downpipe. A coat of high temp black paint will hopefully extend the lift of that. The stainless jubilee clips are just there to hold the heat wrap in place.
Piccies below - Please go easy on my first welding attempt. It's certainly a skill that I'm learning and have a long way to go.....
The 2.25" to 3" adapter
I had to use some 3" hot rod axle U bolts and welded to the existing engine mounts. This wasn't the final product. I did go back over those welds to strengthen them.
I used a flap disc on my grinder to add a pattern to the stainless that is the tailpipe.
Piccies below - Please go easy on my first welding attempt. It's certainly a skill that I'm learning and have a long way to go.....
The 2.25" to 3" adapter
I had to use some 3" hot rod axle U bolts and welded to the existing engine mounts. This wasn't the final product. I did go back over those welds to strengthen them.
I used a flap disc on my grinder to add a pattern to the stainless that is the tailpipe.
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