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D3 Performance Engineering Jeep runs 9s!

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D3 Performance Engineering’s SRT8 slams down power from the turbocharged Hemi to all 4! Click to watch! Continue reading

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Fabricators Series: Collin of Toxicfab speaks with FabricationLife!

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Inside we feature Collin Meyers, owner of Toxicfab.com. Collin always rips up the net with his iPhone images of his immaculate dime drops and more. Follow the click to see this one on one interview with one of the most popular welders on the net today.

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Quickies: Intro to Tungsten and Prep

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A quick intro to Tungsten

This is one of our quickies in our Prep series. This piece is on Tungsten definition, selection, and prep. It is a mild intro that will be followed up later in another portion of the Prep series.

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Tig’d Up Tuesday Review 2-18

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Before we give you this Tig’d Up Review, we are going to do a replay of a few previous Tig’d Up articles, showcasing previous work.

Tig’d Up Review 11-26-13

Tig’d Up Review 12-3-13

Tig’d Up Review 12-10-13

Tig’d Up Review Holiday Edition

Tig’d Up Review 12-31-13

Tig’d Up Review 1-7-14

Tig’d Up Review 1-14-14

Tig’d Up Review 1-21-14

Tig’d Up Review 1-28-14

Tig’d Up Review 2-4-14

Tig’d Up Review 2-11-14

 

This week, we had entries featuring Industrial, Exhaust Headers, Race Radiators, and Exhaust Systems. We tried to focus on complete parts rather than 1-10″ sections of welding. The idea was to have featured images that showcase finished products. We will be looking for that this week in our submissions as well. Good luck and submit early!

 

On to the Review!

David D./ D3 Performance Engineering

This thing is just sick! 321 stainless tri-Y turbo manifold all slip fit for a 2JZ with a ProMod 88mm turbo. Feature coming on this 240sx shortly on Fabricationlife.com, too…

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Tig’d Up Tuesday review 2-4

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Tig’d Up Tuesday Review is a weekly playback of entries we chose to fill our Facebook Fan Page with. We have another great Tuesday up for review today. Things to remember when you are submitting:

  1. Please make sure you submit clear, sharp, crisp, and non-blurry photos.

  2. Make sure your photos are in focus. We want to highlight the weld or product you are showing off.

  3. Make sure you include your weld and machine information.

  4. If you submit and we feature, comment on the post. People will ask questions.

  5. If you are featured, please share the our post on your network. Show off your work.

 

Now let’s get to the review!

Chris Wilkes

“Steel welded with 70sd2 rod” Chris Wilkes Fabrications

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Fabricators Series: Ron Bergenholtz.. What is Fabrication?

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Ron is no stranger to the world of motorsports. He knows a thing or 2 about Fabrication owning both a successful drift team and one of the most historic Import Drag teams in history. We recently had a sit down with Ron B. to speak quickly on his thoughts of Fabrication. Sit back and listen. It is great to hear someone speak who isn’t just another critic, but a student of the art. When you love fabrication, you are proud to see it anywhere you can.

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Tig’d Up Tuesday Review 1-28

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Another Tig’d Up Tuesday in the books! This one was perfect and tons of people visited the page. We want to thank everyone for the submissions. We chose a few to show a few completed parts this time, not just a few inches of welds.

Check out what we posted and tell us which one is your pick:

Tyler Timmel/The Arc Asylum

“Header jig I built this weekend”

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Matthew Owen

“Twin turbo lsx swapped Lexus is300. Sh10 manifolds single pass welded @ 90 amps 1/16 308 filler fully back purged with a miller dynasty 200 no pulse.”

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Scott at MoFab LLC

“Coolant tank for customers STI”

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Aldo D3 Performance Engineering

“Aluminum dime droppin! iPhone pic, no pulse or pedal pumping”

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Paul / Dezod Motorsports Inc

“Dimeage”

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Derek/Ricky at SpeedFactory

“Dual backdoor intercooler/tucked radiator combo. Features Vibrant Vanjen inlet/outlet connections, intercooler is flanged with a Tial 50mm BOV connection.”

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Collin ToxicFab.com

“321 stainless love on this freezing cold day.”

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David D3 Performance Engineering

“MAF flange weld , 3/32 tungsten, 1/16 rod, small collet, Miller Sync 300, no pedal, all metal”

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Tomorrow on Tig’d Up Tuesday we want to see all of your intake work. So if you have any manifolds, piping, and sensors send pics our way!

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FabTime: Exhaust Speaker.. Should we?

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Fabrication Life fans, we need your opinion! We posted the photo below yesterday, and we all were obsessed with it. Everything about it screamed BAD ASS! Spending the day with the materials to make this happen is even worse because we got that itch. You all know the itch… it’s a curse!

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Tig’d Up Tuesday Review 1-14

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FabricationLife brings you another strong installment of Tig’d Up Tuesday! This Tuesday, the submissions were plentiful. Keep the submissions coming. Some days we will post more than others, but keep submitting. We may use yours on a future installment of Tig’d Up!

Here is this weeks Review!

Tig’d Up Tuesday submission – Jared Lewis aka WeldPipe

“Monel 400 butt weld ErNiCu-7 filler”

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Tig’d Up Tuesday Review 1-07

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Tig’d Up Tuesday is that day when our Fan Page goes crazy. We get messages right and left and we post tons of work people send in. There is no method to our madness on this day, no strategy, no timing structure, and no perfect weld to send. Some days we will only post the best work, and some days we will pick 1-3 photos which need critique, or in which a welder needs advice, and we will post them for the crowd. What we mean basically is we have no exact process for Tig’d Up Tuesday.

 

We also have a new “How-To” post for those of you looking for better weld prep techniques. This post has gained strong attention. 

http://betawpe.fabricationlife.com/2014/prep-is-everything

 

With that said, here are the photos we chose last week.

 

Matt Harm

“4” Schd. 40 304ss. Walking the cup (root pass)”1487837_10151825371677944_781318470_o

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