Prior to YouTube, learning to fabricate parts and pieces for your hot rod usually required you to learn from your dad, a friend, your grandpa, or in some cases a trade school. But fabrication for many folks was learned by reading magazines and looking at the pictures. It wasn’t uncommon to grab some material and start trying to make something that looks like the one you just read about. The problem with this is that often you wasted material or ended up with a product that wasn’t quite what you hoped for or needed. With the digital age however the learning opportunities have grown exponentially so that you can watch the techniques of others and learn from the before going out and ruining a bunch of valuable materials.
This is exactly why Doug and the crew at Motion Raceworks have put together their Motion360 videos. These are designed to teach you something and to show you in a real world setting. Such is the case in this video where Doug explains and demonstrates tools and equipment, as well as techniques that will result in a nicer, more durable, and arguably more powerful combination. Watch this one and see what you can learn.
Here is the info from Motion:
Turbo Wastegate merges are always a topic of discussion as they can make or break the effectiveness of power management. Another popular topic are broken merges which instantly disrupt the performance of your turbo combo. A couple of the issues that can cause cracking are poor fitup of the joint as well as hot or undercut/bad/porous welds. In this video Doug discusses a simple and effective way to get perfect tube fitup which makes for a stronger joint and a more durable turbo system. We hope this video helps you create a turbo system that you can depend on, win races, and not require you to rehab or refabricate later on down the road.
