You should be proud of yourself; this is a very ambitious task you've undertaken, and I think you are doing a great job.

I absolutely love this attitude and mindset in your statement, "This is my own adventure, I just invite you in to watch". I think more people in general, and especially on any social media would really benefit from having this attitude and mindset. If you (people in general) just do what they love and "invite [others] in to watch", then the people will either show up or they won't, no skin off your back because you still did what you loved. BTW, I am enjoying watching your adventure, thanks for inviting me in to see it.

Awesome... I follow a bunch of channels over a wide range of things and you are one of my favorites... Its hard to beat the tally ho project 😜

Throttle Stop Garage - "We're not concerned with getting anything done" The work you do it great, and thoroughly enjoy the content

I've designed FileMaker Pro databases for 30+ years and spent countless hours doing similar fix and repair and touchups. They were so annoying at times. I've often thought that I should do something that had a finality and I couldn't go back and update. After watching this video, I've changed my mind. I see that no matter what you do, if you seek perfection it will be agonizing. I've pushed objects about on the layout pixel by pixel and changed colors by 10, etc. And rewriting scripts so the layout wouldn't flash and would open to the exact point on my screen... Trying to open a window in an exact screen placement is quite similar to the work you did, just not as sweaty. Now I can return to my work in peace knowing that no matter what I do I would end up with frustrations and stress trying to achieve what I want. Thanks. You have my respect for your craftsmanship.

One of the best, I love your approach to building!

Thats a beautiful piece. I'm so glad you're filming this.

Very good detail. I'm doing a similar project. Diesel engine so 304 instead of 321. Same diameter and schedule 10S too. But this is for low speed, 4000 RPM and being a V8, space is a premium so going log style. Individual port flanges, plasma cut from bar stock. Zero root gap too, tacks can be done without purge or sugaring. I only had to cut 17mm sections which I did with a pipe cutter. Purge root pass, then fill with water to fill/cap. Yes, welding pipe full of water is possible with stainless. Greatly reduces warpage. These are for twin, light turbochargers for quick spool. All the number crunching shows 10 PSI boost at 1400 RPM and drive pressure ratio under 1.4 maximum. I am playing with Garrett VNTs so there is a lot of tuning possible with the vane position controller (RPM, TPS and MAP). TPS and RPM dictate % load or torque, this infers injection quantity which then does a 3D lookup for required MAP. I want a clear exhaust gas, no coal rolling but doing this with purely mechanical injection requires turbos with fast response, only VNT will work. Only looking for 235 Hp.

Fantastic viewing Craig, I love watching your learning journey… apply new techniques, gain experience, take a day off, come back, try new things…. it’s all about those incremental improvements! 👍

One of the best channels out there. Love your attitude and you do beautiful work to boot.

Oh man it turned out amazing! Have once had to stick weld the last section in the middle of collector for the last runner to get it welded. Super editing on the many days and hours for make this video! Thanks for sharing it with us!

A true artist. And the patience of Job.

Dude, that thing is freaking amazing! Good job... No f that freaking great job!!! I made a crappy log for my project and it's crap. Crappy crap! Your headed is a freaking work of art! Just wow...

Another great video! Thanks for giving us an opportunity to watch your project.

Most incredible header ever. Amazing work. Thanks for taking us along so we can experience at least 0.1% of the extraordinary effort required. Congratulations. 🎉

That sure came out looking great. I love the final shape. A 5 cylinder makes for a cool layout.

Wow. This is really beautiful work. The looks of this manifold make a great argument for I5 engines!

Very ambitious! I thought maybe that might be too ambitious but after seeing the final result, that is truly artwork, beautiful and worth all of the time! I have a lot of respect for you getting all you have done accomplished as long as you continue to enjoy it. Thank you for the content, I hope it pays off, I know that makes it even more work!

That turned out very nice. Loved the build, can't wait for the next one👍

A true craftsman in all endeavors! Look forward to more fab! Thanks for taking the time to film and explain caveats you've learned along your journey. Subscribed 😊

this gotta be the most beautiful manifod i have ever seen and man i have seen a lot, congratulatiions on that perfect build

.....and thanks for allowing us to follow this adventure!!!!

That header setup looks incredible😊

I agree with @jimsiggy great job, and if I may add a tip, when you let off thee pedal to stop your weld swirl the tungsten and let out of the pedal slow and you will get a cleaner less bumpy and pitted tie in, also I would suggest increasing your post flow and not moving the cup from where you stop to help cool the part and your tungsten, if your tungsten turns black when you stop welding you have inadequate post flow and accumulate oxides on the tungsten turning it black.

Not just a manifold but a piece of art that I would love to see on my desk... with ceramic coating or titanium build. Wow!

Absolutely beautiful job!

. Maybe there is something to single-cylinder motors after all your trials and tribulations. A work of art - congratulations. A shining symmetrical success.

they look amazing congrats on your achievements and thanks for sharing it nice job as always

Very nice Throttle! Cheers, Doug

Looks amazing! About to start welding up some V-blocks so I can compensate for the lack of a lathe to make threaded standoff spacers for mounting 98 Mercedes CL seats in a 64 Riviera. Been using the notebook idea for building stuff and its worked out great being able to reference back to what worked when it comes to making the other side.

Enjoyed that good looking piece. Busy with a few projects for me as well.

Good job looks great, I'd be proud of that outcome 👍

Awesome work Craig. I weld for a living and I still enjoy watching videos like these. No matter what I will still learn something new. We always have more to learn, no matter the experience level. I wanted to ask. Can you share some some info about those adjustable towers you have on the table that you use to hold up the runners? Looks like a cast iron pipe with a bolt in it. I really like the idea was hoping you would share some info on it. Cheers and keep up the great work.

Awesome as always. Great work!!!

Great Video! I wish I found this months ago. Thanks for sharing your process, Im building my first Stainless manifold and it has been quite the learning process and kick in the a$$ haha. I have learned the art of patience on this one.

Love your work mate. Using your cf intake vids to build my intake 🤫 mates doing the double walled lower cnc flange as we speak and Im currently on the chamber plug. Following your methods, all hunky dory so far 👍👍 Appreciate the guidance

To you Sir, I take my hat off to you, as a first-time subscriber to your Chanel this was simply the best video I have ever seen, "Why" because just like you, I too am not great at tig welding, but you sir have taken me to a greater level of confidence, so great of you to say, your not so good at this but you showed us how to be patient and to pressure, well-done sir, looking forward to your next video,

It’s a masterpiece man !!! it’s excellent 👍👍👍good job 😎wow!!!

epic effort - great result - hats off !!

Well, that long cup did the trick :-) I think that it looks awesome. You are going to enjoy that manifold for years to come. Big thumbs up !

Awesome job really looks great and very inspirational work.

Congrats Nicely done

Looking good. Well done mate.

I am very impressed ! That would have taken me a month. Good job!

an amazing piece of fabrication. that is a piece of art.

You should be proud of that. Looks great!

I'm repeating myself but art takes time.

Looking good

Great videos man! U are a lot like my self. I've got one tip for you. I started using a sheet of aluminum on my welding bench and its made a huge difference when it comes to not getting grounding arcs. I didn't notice any in the video, but its bound to happen with a steel table. Keep up the great work.

looks fabulous

I want to see a video about that height adjustable welding table. 😍😍

what a work of art

Nice project, came out well

I think you are awesome. Can't say it enough, your videos are great.

Beautiful

Just realised in the second time of watching I never thanked you for the little mention 🙂! You did a great job. I'm going to be undertaking my first manifold in the next few days and will be uploading the results for the world to see on my channel. Won't be half as comprehensive, I'm a terrible KZfaqr 😂

Awsome work 👌🤘

40C in the garage... damn... time for a mini split or something to keep it down (or up during the winter) to something that is reasonable. great work we all enjoy the journey.

Thanks for the invite. Awesome uploads dude.

i like your centering jig parts! i made some that are a bit different in shape, but perform very similarly.

Folding like a noodle is no problem, it's the unfolding that concerns me

Great video hopefully my next project is finished to your very high standards

Just say that polishing is satisfying 😂😂

Masterpiece!

nice job!

This is difficult like that. The end has to be undone in way to have flexibility. But this is insane

Just a tip, if you are doing tight radius tube/pipe polishing with this type of polisher look for scalloped sanding belts.

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beautyfull job !!!

Yeah, don’t be too rude about you. You have the professionalist (? I’m not a native engl speaker) intention, you know what good quality is. So it’s useful to learn some by you. And you have a funny manner to tell things 😁 plus I know that at the end it will look good anyway, as also working good. Thank you, you do great ⭐️

You make it look easy! LOL! Gonna start TIG welding some stuff. Should know what I’m doing by 2036 or so.

Nice

A little tip is to weld every joint directly. Like a clock. Say I start at 6 and stop at 9. After that start at 3 weld to 12. The continue to 9 to 12 and last but not least weld 6 to 3. Then you won't get the problems with the pipes to pull at any direction.

wild DYI headers video

With any turbo manifold I assume it's going to warp after a few thermal cycles. After you break in the engine and you've gotten a few thermal cycles in the thing you probably want to resurface that flange again.

Be proud its not easy . Give you a tip tack it in 12 o'clock 6 o'clock 9 o'clock and keep rotating in that sequence tacking until its tacked all threw then run with it your 100 % correct trial and error 👍

good

This is awsome! I also wanna build a big turbo volvo engine and I wish I had the tools to build a manifold 😭

Beautiful. Entertaining and informative as always. I love the pride and time you take in your hobby work. This may be a question for later, but have you decided on your EFI computer? Will you continue with the DIY theme and get a DIY ECU? i.e. Megasquirt, Speeduino, or RusEFI Proteus?

It's your car and your project. Dont listen to everyone who thinks they know everything on the internet!!

Spectacular sanding tool. Do you have a link from which you can buy it? thank you

For every weld I allow 2mm for shrinking with that wall thickness

That thing is gorgeous. I'd hang it on my wall!

Great job! A bit cathartic with the final welding I'm sure

Looks good! I'm curious for everything to do the job, start to finish, how many hours did this take? To make the back purge block, making the jig, everything, how many hours?

On the position try tig welding chrome molly in a 25.2 or any cert chassis lol I had to hang off my car lift upside down a bunch of times 🙃

Fantastic video. I'm a novice when it comes to welding. I have to ask though, where did you get the head-side manifold flange from? I plan to fab a manifold for my 5-cylinder this spring and that flange is perfect.

Came out outstanding what welder you using

I learned this from another guy but thoriated tungsten, you can bend the end of the tungsten to get into those hard to reach places where you're trying to put a straight tungsten in an area that it just doesn't fit so good, just a tech tip you can try and not try it up to you

watching this in 2022 and my original comment still stands. you should of outsourced the facing of the exhaust to head mating, getting those two right is make or brake. Id of welded on tabs that were threaded to hold the exhaust manifold to the facing machine. That way you can face it at a whim if need be. those two mating surfaces are the most crucial. most heat, most pressure in one spot throughout the whole car. important.

This is a great video! Looking to do the same. Where did you source the SS parts?

Well done! It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks it is all for you. Just curious, how are you going to gasket that?

Appreciate *all* the tips ! Any idea what your current settings were ? I'm mid fabrication of a similar manifold for a Lancia twin cam - just at the 'spotting' stage having gotvit into shape with equal length pipes - more luck than judgement ! I found a lathe invaluable for this - not sure if your plumbing pipes are the same on your side of the pond, but here in the UK, 40mm solvent weld waste pipe is a really goof fit into the pipes and makes an ideal 'joiner' to get everything into shape. I solvent welded a 'coupler' to the straight plastic spacers and trued them up on the lathe to keep everything square - then cut the stainless pipe to thr required length, again using the lathe to keep everything square. Downside with a lathe - especially working in a small garage workshop is that you don't grind inside anymore - you get a bit paranoid about grinding dust ! Amyway - should be finishingcrhe spoting up next week - then it's the main welding - after quite a big of practice to get my welding a bit better !!

Did you weigh the completed manifold? It looks terrific!

It would be agood idea to checkout welders that do this for a living and checkout there tube turning jig clamps like ball joint swivels rhat fit inside tubing and out side .👍

Do you mention any place where you source the tubing? Or do you have a link? Great job on the manifold!

The flat bar that you use to weld the flange of the headers, is aluminum or metal? How tick is the plate? Very amazing work that you do, you'r a craftsman.

If you want to stop craters in the ends of weld, run your tungsten up the side of the joint.

Would you be able to actively cool the pipes (gently, with a box fan a meter or two away or something) to speed up the process? Or would that wreak havocs with the welds?

It looks great but do u think that just fusion will hold up..a turbo builds a lot of pressure which could blow those welds?and the fact that your grinding them down..I don't know if I agree