Mayf,
Sometimes common sense comes a while after inspiration...
What about just cutting away some of the flange plate, where most helpful or
convenient, leaving enough to hold the tubes together, but not enough to
generate
the sproing. You could just narrow it or leave 'arches'.
Hmmm?
Rick
Rick Hammond wrote:
> DrMayf wrote:
>
> > Dinking around with whatever I can sans shop and thought I would ask a
> > question about the turbo headers. My headers are block hugger type and have
> > a single piece flange where it bolts to the heads. Turbo headers get hot.
> > Hot means expansion. So would I be better off cutting the long single flange
> > plate into four smaller ones with one hole slotted at each port? This would
> > permit expansion without putting anything into a bind...or would it? Heads
> > are aludimum. Of course, as soon as I cut them, they will sproing all out of
> > shape wont they? Murphy's Law or some such.
> >
> > mayf, the red necked ignorant desert rat in Pahrump..without a shop...yet
> >
>
> Mayf,
> The 'sproing' will probably be outwards (??) so what about welding some light
> gussets between them first to maintain the spread?
> Cheers,
> Rick
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