Look what I made
 

I'm learning to weld so I figured I'd make something for my car. Yeah they aren't the prettiest welds but they work. This is the first useful thing I've welded. I painted it flat black and it's drying now so I'll post the painted pictures in the morning. It did make the frontend feel a little tighter.


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Here's it painted
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Take your time and grind the braces down to sit more flush so you can fill in the weld areas. Then grind down any high spots and smear some body filler in it since you are a beginner... thats what I did on the strut bar I made...

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Wow thats really nice.

damn gracie...exhaust soon? haha glad to see you got the strut bar you wanted

Wanna make me one lol

not bad. more than I can say i've fabricated.

Actually I think with in the next couple of weeks I'll start buying the parts. I just gotta decide if I wanna go catback or turboback.

nice job.. hell if it works why not use it.

that def looks a lo better, than the shape it was in when iw as at your house. nice job man

thats a no-brainer.....go turbo-back

wow preety cool

i'd definitely say go turbo-back as well. That stb looks pretty cool though.

Yeah, I meant if I want to try and build the downpipe or just buy one, I can get one for $165. So I'll probably just build the cat-back part and buy the downpipe.

what'd u mig that strut bar?? i wanted to make one but to tig that mutha, i got a smaller lincon mig welder, it does the job, but i wanna invest in a tig machine wanna go half's haha

I used oxy/acetylene.

looks Great! feel any improvement?

alejandro looks much better painted

Those look like flux core welds...


those welds will break the first stress those shock towers see.

^ what he said.

Those arent strong at all. You shouldve prepped the metal pieces so they fit flush together all the way around, tacked them in a couple spots, then finish welded all the way around. Right now they're just kind of stuck there with a glob of bird ****.