intercooler fabrication

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intercooler fabrication

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Been doing a bit more fabrication to one of my mates hayabusa drag bike thats already doing a quarter mile in 7.3 sec, he tells me he needs to cool the air down as we all know the colder the air the more we can ram in and the faser we go , and before you say god damm them badboys look ugly... yes they do but it aint all about looks when your winning races,
So heres a few selected pics i took.
Ill let you all know how much faster it makes it go in spring time.

This is it before i started
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pipe from turbo housing being split to go to both coolers
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pipe with wiggins clip ends welded on
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pipe on turbo housing
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pipes welded on that go to bottom of intercoolers
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pipe joining bottom of coolers up running across front wheel
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And without boring you all pics of the whole kit followed by the kit on the bike ready for a run...

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yes DDE stands for DangerousDavesEngineering, gotta put ya stamp on it hey :D

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and now on bike
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pipe from plennem chamber down to top of coolers.
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sticking out of the side a bit out eh
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made a few parts on this mother
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and some other parts ive made before in the past for it...
1st fuel tank.
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fuel tank no2..
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little tank for water injection
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front faring frame to hold battery and motec..
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I know it wastnt an exup but hope you still enjoyed the pics :D
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Post by Stig »

Dave, your fabrication skills are first class mate :nod:

Made a cracking job on ALL of that :cool: :cool: :cool:
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Beautiful. :shades:

Your a welding god. :nod:
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In that first pic, has the rear end been shortened?? :retard:
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Well impressed.....Top job! :D
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One thing I should have learnt to do properly is weld. That lot is a work of art. :clap:
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Wish I had the skill like that, look awesome,
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Re: intercooler fabrication

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This must make filtering in traffic a nightmare. :lol:
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I've said it once and I'll say it again. You're a Van Gogh of the fabrication and welding world Dave. :nod: :nod:
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Post by creedxup »

Nice welding Dave.

I can't see that the increase in power from the cooler air will overcome the increase in drag from the wider intercooler.

Those purple couplings look like the Boeing water/waste system ones.
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youve put wings on it i think itll try and take off..... :D
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Cheers for the comments lads , yeah I've even said it will probably take off or at least start lifting, but apparently it with cool the air by half and he will be able to turn the boost down to around 15 / 16 as its running well over 20 at over 600 brake the mo, so less strain on the motor , time will tell eh, ill keep you updated when he does a few runs .
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Very nice,is it t.i.g work? :)
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dangerousdave wrote:
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Is it just me or does Dangerous bear a striking resemblance to Cal Crutchlow?

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:D

Awesome welding skill's
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AN.OK , yes bit of aluminum tig welding,
And Fang , can't see it myself must be the hat that's throwing you :)
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