{"id":5333,"date":"2011-11-15T08:03:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T18:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2011-11-15T08:03:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T18:03:39","slug":"exhausting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/15\/exhausting\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhausting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Received my exhaust downpipe kit to fit\u00c2\u00a0the 4AGE 20 valve header pipes from sv3power<\/a>. It\/he is a company that specializes in exhaust components to fit the AW11 first gen MR2. I’m pretty sure it’s a single guy fabricating parts per order. It was the only place I found that had flanges to fit the 20V manifold, of course the 20V one is slightly different than the 16V. I found on his site an unassembled downpip kit that looked like it would work well since the MR2 is set up the same as a FWD Corolla except the motor is in back. The exhaust manifold is the same. So here is the kit. It was a little less assembled than I thought, I guess I thought the pieces that were together would be welded already, but they were only tacked. Looks like my welding skills, or lack of, will get a workout!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And so it did. First off did a little test fit. The collector pipe fits well, except the O2 bung interferes with the engine crossmember. Dang, lucky its only tacked in! Ground it off and fabricated a cover. Where’s Scat the master of tin snips and hammer fabrication? I drill a new hole and break out the welder. I weld up, or attempt to weld up the flange joint. More like glob blobs of metal all over. By the end of this project I’ve figured out that I was trying way too little power & feed.<\/p>\n

Oh, and a tip if your going gas MIG, get the argon CO2 gas, its way cleaner and easier to control. I started with straight CO2, there’s quite a difference. CO2 is supposed to give you more pentration, but the argon mix is much nicer to work with.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>At the end of two days, last night spent patching the myriad of leaks, here is what I have. I had to use that Danger Will robot arm flexy pipe section I got from Napa because the run to the catalytic converter was not straight in line, and I do not have the ability to bend tubing. I have to wait till tonight to test again for leaks and hopefully it’ll fit!<\/p>\n

Oh, later I’ll detail some of the other nice little bits available from the company that I bought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Received my exhaust downpipe kit to fit\u00c2\u00a0the 4AGE 20 valve header pipes from sv3power. It\/he is a company that specializes in exhaust components to fit the AW11 first gen MR2. I’m pretty sure it’s a single guy fabricating parts per order. It was the only place I found that had flanges to fit the 20V […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1o1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}