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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:07 pm 
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If ya want a nice bit of thick plywood or some timber for the top let us know. The plywood comes 2400x1200. Pretty much any thickness you want. I would probably get 25mm thick or you can get 32mm if you want.
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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:08 pm 
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If ya want a nice bit of thick plywood or some timber for the top let us know. The plywood comes 2400x1200. Pretty much any thickness you want. I would probably get 25mm thick or you can get 32mm if you want.
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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:08 pm 
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If ya want a nice bit of thick plywood or some timber for the top let us know. The plywood comes 2400x1200. Pretty much any thickness you want. I would probably get 25mm thick or you can get 32mm if you want.
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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:35 pm 
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hey Pete, pics look good what are you going to tune this with Tweeker or Sniper ??..also poor cougar left behind again..
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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:44 pm 
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Thanks Ash, I'll see what steel bench I can find.

Hey Joe,
I'll be using a Moates 1/4 horse to tune it and then I'll stick a chip in with the final cal.
Yeah I'd hoped the poxy 3.9 would hang in there long enough for me to do the Cougar but alas it didn't and there was no way I was going buy another 3.9 or even a 4.6 that could just as easily f**k again!? Plus those things are way overpriced!
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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:28 am 
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Picked up a steel table for $100 the other day and here's my welding jig...anudder head.

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RH side...

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Here's where I got to today. They'll be ok but I'm not that happy with what they supplied. The secondary pipes should go over the cones but they're the other way round, and worse, they're like a C**k in a sock so I've had to virtually butt them together for welding so it's not as bad as having a pipe overlapping the wrong way. Btw the final collectors are s**t too!

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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:51 am 
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They look good Pete. Pity about the secondary pipes and collectors.
Are you going to get new collectors or Just use the ones in the kit.
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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:05 am 
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I'll just cut and shut the ones in the kit Ash.
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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:56 pm 
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Did some header building on the weekend. It's a bit of fun shaping the round pipes to go in a rectangular hole let me tell you! Got a couple of pipes on the Left bank done too but they are more difficult to route.

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Why didn't you make some transitions....would've been so much easier to align the tubes.....

I used a Castle kit a few years ago, didnt have a drama. It was only a m/s one......
Looks like you got heaps of room for some turbo manifolds....lol....

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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:03 am 
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Transitions?
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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:47 pm 
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Did some header building on the weekend. It's a bit of fun shaping the round pipes to go in a rectangular hole let me tell you! Got a couple of pipes on the Left bank done too but they are more difficult to route.

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Going to extreme's there color coding the spark plugs. :D

 

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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:00 pm 
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Did some header building on the weekend. It's a bit of fun shaping the round pipes to go in a rectangular hole let me tell you! Got a couple of pipes on the Left bank done too but they are more difficult to route.

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Going to extreme's there color coding the spark plugs. :D


Damn I was trying to keep that a secret.
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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:33 pm 
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Transitions?

The ports are rectangular arent they. Just form short pieces of tube the ports shape, then u can align the rest of the bends to whatever angle you want......

 

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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:15 pm 
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Transitions?

The ports are rectangular arent they. Just form short pieces of tube the ports shape, then u can align the rest of the bends to whatever angle you want......


Too much welding that way and you end up with welds right where you have to squash it for bolt clearance. Besides I didn't have any problem aligning the tubes, I had a hard time shaping them into rectangles but I got it done never-the-less.
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 Post subject: Re: How to make a 351 Ford Rover
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:39 pm 
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XR9UTE wrote:
DA22LE wrote:
XR9UTE wrote:
Transitions?

The ports are rectangular arent they. Just form short pieces of tube the ports shape, then u can align the rest of the bends to whatever angle you want......


Too much welding that way and you end up with welds right where you have to squash it for bolt clearance. Besides I didn't have any problem aligning the tubes, I had a hard time shaping them into rectangles but I got it done never-the-less.


Have to agree with you about limited bolt room, got to love heads with the wide exhaust bolt pattern.

 

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