Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
You guys can always ask me how to do something, and I can teach you, or if you want something weird made, I can probably make it. :glasses7:
David, when I posted these (shown below) pictures of the mild-steel header that my ex-partner, Freddie, made for our turbo slant six, I got TWELVE PM's from people, asking for him to make them one!
What they didn't know was that, Freddie was 74 years old, had a 'pacemaker' and couldn't weld because of it (RF issues,) so, had to cut all the many individual pieces (cut-and-try) and use adhesive tape to hold the pieces in place until we could get them to a weld shop for tack-welding 'til they could be finish-welded (at a different weld-shop location,) after the final configurtion was decided on. Then the assembled header was driven to a T.I.G. welder for final welding. Then, it was picked up and driven to a plating service, where it was ceramic coated. All-in all, some 650 miles of hiway driving, for the completed project. This was back when gas was $4.00 a gallon...
His 2012 Charger gets about 28mpg, so that was almost a hundred dollars worth of gasoline... to get this job done, and by the time all the expenses were added up, it was very close to $1,000.00.
This was the first and only header he had ever attempted, and when asked about more, he said, "Never again!"
It is a crude, elementary design that could surely be improved upon, but to Freddie's credit, I think it looks very good for a first-effort.
I had no hand in the creation of it.
But, YOU, David, could probably figure out a way to build something like this that has easier construction methods and an effective, but simpler design and I would bet you could sell a lot of them!
Our hobby NEEDS something like that...
Think about it, PLEASE...:prayer::prayer::prayer:
You could do it...:cheers:
