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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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Tig’d Up Tuesday review 2-25

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A little late on this weeks Tig’d Up Tuesday review, but always come to you with a recap of the previous weeks submissions. We had an abnormally high traffic rate on this Tuesday, which we like obviously! Make sure to check out our other Tig’d Up Tuesday reviews!

This weeks selection:

Justin Bloomer

“A twin turbo system for a c6 z06. Utilizing twin 7675 precision turbos and 46 mm gates. Fabrication done by Justin of No Corners Cut fabrication.”

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Richard R.

“Dimes and Weaves”

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Len Mitchell

“Ripples or no? Which do u like?”

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Brad Harmer

“Up close and personal with a Powerhouse Racing 4″ titanium catback for mkiv supra! Fillet joint to a custom phr machined v band flange.”

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Ben Gilbert

“A pair of 2″ 4 to 1 3.5 inch collectors fully purged, fabricated by Mike at Edwards Motorsport. Cheers”

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Alex L./BP Autosports, LLC.

“Titanium wastegate dump tube. Low angle pie cuts and consistency are the names of the game. Filled with 0.045 rod and welded with a standard #12 lense setup.”

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David Vanstone

“Suzuki gsxr throttle body manifold for a Peugeot 106”

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Kevin Merryman

“12ga 304 .045 wire 100 amps”

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Swing back in next week for our next installment! Also be on the lookout for our Intercooler Series!

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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 2-11

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Your Tig’d Up Tuesday Review for the second week of February is here . We enjoyed another successful week of posts, and got a ton of submissions! Here they are:

Priit KukkFabrication

“This is a mic fastening point on a acoustic stand for exhaust gas analysis. Welded with a Kemppi MasterTig 4004 1,6mm 316 filler, pulse setup : 90 amp 40% duty 1hz frequency.”

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Nick Primero

“Tigging away on racecars this week.”

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Samuel Hoskins

“Here is some work from Ben Issacson, owner of Ground up Motorsports in Australia”

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Richard Rasmussen

“Thirsty?”

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Brandon Kalcsics

“Carbon to chromoly, running at 200amps. Freehand dab on a 77 honda cb750 hardtail.”

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Race Ready Fab

“Civic custom exhaust 304ss machine thermal arc 186”

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Derek at SpeedFactory

“Backdoor intercooler endtank with change.”

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Dane Reynolds

“304ss v band clamp by tig welded by Dane from RB Garage toowoomba”

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Keep the submissions flowing! See you on another Tig’d Up Review!

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