Author: Fabrication Life

We want to welcome you to the new Fabrication Life website! Let’s get right to business. This whole page is dedicated to fabrication, motorsports to industrial, and we are focused to bring you new content as much as possible. It is not just welding, and it is not a place only for automotive features, Fabrication Life is a new community for fabricators and enthusiasts to meet in the collective idea “we want to see more”. We will include a lot of video to the site, and have integrated your Our Facebook Fan page which you have grown to follow with high magnitude.

We want to show your content, your builds, your tutorials.

Thank you for joining us! Let’s Fabricate!

In this video you serve witness to Dave “Texas Dave” Carapetyan slay the tarmac at the 2013 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. As you watch, enjoy the footwork as Dave does his dance up the mountain in his Unlimited Class EVO. 800hp to boot, stout chassis work, and 4 wheel go means Dave had an exciting ride from our prospective!

We will have more soon from Dave at Rally Ready Driving School!

135lbs of boost! We are sure there is more now, but just to throw that number from a compound 105mm x 84mm turbo setup makes this 92 Dodge Ram one extreme coal factory. Well over 1000’hp and a massive torque pull count, this Cummins is no slouch!

Sean Baca’s “Black Pearl” is getting a new pile of goods according to We will bring you more soon!

Major League of the New Generation camp ran a 6.27 pass at MIR during the World Cup Finals import vs. domestic. This now places The 20b RX8 as the quickest rotary in the world. Also, according to the standings, this should make the low 6-second Mazda the 4th quickest import in history. Great job representing Puerto Rico, too!

Guest Blog, second in a series from Jay Thornton, custom fabrication expert at Vibrant Performance

As we left off yesterday, I was running down some of the fundamentals of fabrication as part of our week-long back to basics blogs for Vibrant Week at Motovicity. This is Pre-Fab .50, the stuff everybody should know as their baseline knowledge of fabrication and materials welding before we move on to the Fab 101 tutorials we’ll be posting here on the MotoBlog. Continue reading →

Guest article on Motivicty’s MOTOBLOG, first in a series from Jay Thornton, custom fabrication expert and technical lead at Vibrant Performance.

I spend a lot of time working with up-and-coming custom metal fabricators and it’s one of the coolest parts of my job at Vibrant. I get to see a lot of new, creative ways of doing things and meet new people who bring a whole new perspective to the craft. I also see this as an important part in the art of fabrication: helping the next generation learn a craft that is constantly changing and innovating. Continue reading →

Part 2 of this video series by SpeedFactory Racing shows the fabrication process of the 1000whp custom spec intercooler, using 2 Vibrant cores, custom endtanks, and Vanjen Clamps. You will also see the mock up of the intercooler piping. Ricky welds a clamp to the mouth of the Throttle Body, and preps for engine install.
Enjoy part 2!

Part one of this video shows you the beginning steps in what will be a small video series dedicated to the Vibrant Performance Civic build. Watch as Ricky at SpeedFactory Racing shows the parts he will use, as well as the Turbo Manifold and Exhaust Downpipe production.

Enjoy!

Chris Harris, we love you and hate you at the same time. This type of video is what we need on every slow day, played heavily in rotation. We want to be in the drivers seat!