Kinda sort of.
Actually it's modifying a set of A-body Dart Fender well headers to fit.
The previous work was trimming the body for the headers to fit in the area I thought they would wind up in. I basically had these headers that I wanted to put here.
They were about 4 Inches from where I thought they should be so I had a set of flanges made up that had 4" extensions on them.
One thing I learned right away is that custom flanges are a lot thicker than a flange from a header manufacturer. Also the pipe the use is a lot thicker gauge so it doesnt exactly fit together.
I took my trusty cut off wheel and knocked the welds off of the new headers so I could get my new flanges slipped right on...
Once I got the flange cut from the pipe It looked like this...
The tubes were still square so I took a socket that was about the right size and used my metal working skills that I learned at Damon's Body and Metal forming class, to make the tubes round again. I got them pretty close but they would not butt up to the new flanges very well. My first plan was to "expand" the header pipe to slip over the new pipe and then weld them together, I thought this would be a lot more simpler than trying to butt weld them together. As stated earlier the pipes are different thicknesses and the header pipe was a way thinner gauge and when I tried to stretch one it was looking like it would split. So we expanded the new flange pipe to fit over the header pipe.
Actually it's modifying a set of A-body Dart Fender well headers to fit.
The previous work was trimming the body for the headers to fit in the area I thought they would wind up in. I basically had these headers that I wanted to put here.
They were about 4 Inches from where I thought they should be so I had a set of flanges made up that had 4" extensions on them.
One thing I learned right away is that custom flanges are a lot thicker than a flange from a header manufacturer. Also the pipe the use is a lot thicker gauge so it doesnt exactly fit together.
I took my trusty cut off wheel and knocked the welds off of the new headers so I could get my new flanges slipped right on...
Once I got the flange cut from the pipe It looked like this...
The tubes were still square so I took a socket that was about the right size and used my metal working skills that I learned at Damon's Body and Metal forming class, to make the tubes round again. I got them pretty close but they would not butt up to the new flanges very well. My first plan was to "expand" the header pipe to slip over the new pipe and then weld them together, I thought this would be a lot more simpler than trying to butt weld them together. As stated earlier the pipes are different thicknesses and the header pipe was a way thinner gauge and when I tried to stretch one it was looking like it would split. So we expanded the new flange pipe to fit over the header pipe.
