Just a crazy idea. Would it be possible in any way to make a turbo pedestal out of a stock LLY exhaust housing? Cut the turbine housing off and weld a T3 flange on... We can do any kind of welding, mig, tig, stick, and one of my friends is an amazing welder. I assume the stock pedestal is cast or something....

We're thinking about putting my old BD on my buddy Jed's truck (tacojedbob) and I have my old stock LLY turbo still...thought of hacking it up and making it work somehow... :confused:

ben

BEN , would you quit trying to build a patch work quilt ! Do it once and do it right ! Shade tree mechanics end up in bad memories!

JUST MY .02 worth !

alright... :D

time to call BD to see if they will sell me a pedestal alone

Why?

Ask your welder budy if he thinks he can weld some cast iron stuff together that will see a ton of heat cycles and if it will hold.

Welding cast steel is no problem, but I wonder though if the welded areas would expand on contract the same as the rest of the piece? The density would be different.

Ask your welder budy if he thinks he can weld some cast iron stuff together that will see a ton of heat cycles and if it will hold.


just for kicks we welded some 1/2" steel plate to a cast diff housing on an old dana 44 axle housing we had lieing around...

first we tacked it, then heated it up sloowwllyy with the oxy/acetalyne torch, then spray-welded it with the mig cranked up as high as it would go. Let it cool and put it in a press, beat on it with a 10 pound sledge, bent it both ways, held fine...then heated it up again, bent it around when it was dark cherry hot, let it cool, bent it again... :confuzeld:

Welding cast steel is no problem, but I wonder though if the welded areas would expand on contract the same as the rest of the piece? The density would be different.

I'm thinking you may be onto something ;) Just a guess......it may hold though :)