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Ed Woosley, owner and head fabricator at Force Fed Engineering shows you how to properly lay down a line and get ample coloration from your welds using basic procedures. Merge Collectors for turbo manifolds are sometimes looked at like a secret among fabricators across the land. While generally you can say there are many ways to build one, everyone has their tricks, likes, and options. Ed walks you through some of his 4 cylinder collections here.

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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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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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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”

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.”

Scott at MoFab LLC

“Coolant tank for customers STI”

Aldo D3 Performance Engineering

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

Paul / Dezod Motorsports Inc

“Dimeage”

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.”

Collin ToxicFab.com

“321 stainless love on this freezing cold day.”

David D3 Performance Engineering

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

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!

This was one of our most packed Tig’d Up Tuesdays in a while. We numbers of submissions, and work from all industries sent in. We chose 10 this week, and the page saw traffic from across the globe!

As we said before, we will be featuring more than 10 entries every week now, so make sure you get your submissions in. If we do not use them, please keep sending. We may use one you send on a future post in the page.

Here are the submissions:

The Turbo Elements 

“Some drops with some dimes”

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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 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)”

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The 1^st Fabrication Life Tig’d Up Tuesday review of 2014 is a good one! This week we had tons of submissions and quite a few posted. As always, we ask you to review through these and tell us your favorites, as well as generously share the post. We want to keep this coming to you and have some exclusive features also coming from Fabrication Life starting this week as well.

Let’s Go!

Tig’d Up Tuesday submission – Alex G

“Waste Gate flange from a Mustang turbo manifold.”

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Happy Holidays to all of our Fabrication Life fans! Always, receiving tons of Tig’d Up Tuesday submissions, we posted a few we felt to show off. Here, we will seperate by date posted. Enjoy the selection and tell us your favorites. We are partial to the flask! 

12/17/13

Ariel Banco

“5xxx series sheet. 3mm thickness. 100 amps, no pulse, 2.4mm 5356 filler rod. by Custom Plenum Creations”

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Last week was our 1st Tig’d Up Tuesday review on FabricationLife.com and the fans loved it!

This week we had a huge amount of traffic for Tig’ Up Tuesday. Here is what was posted: 

Myles Blackwell

“Mild Steel weld”

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