hartstiva

[bhearts]

I just ended up using some epoxy call "red epoxy". It's rated at a constant 300f and 350 bursts. Said it was great with aluminum, and it's alcohol resistant. The stuff has to be heat cured, so I threw it in the oven at 320 for 20 minutes and good to go. I'll be doing some test fitting in the engine bay tonight

[Gomez]

Nice !!!

[bhearts]

the hood shuts. But it touches a decent amount

[defprun]

These?

[bhearts]

For anyone curious. Fir whatever reason you'd try it, the festiva and aspire lower to upper intake manifold spacing isn't the same. So you can't put an aspire upper on a festiva lower. Good thing I made this for the aspire lower. Because I planned on running the aspire lower manifold. It's a lot cleaner piece, no iac clutter.

[sketchman]

I like it.

[bhearts]

sand blasted and painted lower aspire manifold. The colors are close.

[bhearts]

cap permanently installed. Now on to the throttle body side.

[sketchman]

Are those hole plugs? The brass looking things? And this is 100% epoxyed together? I know the velocity inlet plate to runners is an interference fit, but I mean the plenum. No worries about it not holding?

[bhearts]

It's very firm. I did some really unique prep to both mating surfaces with a thread tap, lol. I made the surfaces very texturous, so there would be tons of places for epoxy to grab on to. The brass parts are a bolt, more or less, because there is the visual end cap, and an internal end cap, like this throttle side I haven't installed yet, I had to have a good way to mount the pieces together and hold them firmly for cutting out that throttle opening, and alignment. You can see from that picture that I filled the holes with epoxy, so there wouldn't be an leakage through the screw threads. It's all a crude way of making this manifold work because I don't have access to aluminum tig welding, and I wanted to see if it could be done with epoxy.

[bhearts]

So all mating surfaces have a 90 degree angle made from two quarter inch surfaces. The epoxy used is rated at 3000 some pounds of shear strength. So ill just hope it turns out fine.

[sketchman]

Ahh. OK. I see now.

[Flyin4stroke]

$20 a guy welded all my turbo pipping just saying.

[bhearts]

It'll all be done tonight. And hopefully painted. I'm going to paint my valve cover because I ordered a new gasket for it. Should I stick with my anodized purple look, or maybe anodized red, or something really out there? Stencil festiva into it?

[bhearts]

There it is. My Labour of love