On February 14th Hennessey set a new record for Worlds Fastest 2-seat Sports Car with a blistering 270.49 mph with their Venom GT at Kennedy Space Center. The Space Shuttle landing strip was utilized for is length and it gave the car ample speed for acceleration and shut down. The power-plant, a 7-liter Twin Turbo v8, still looks to be accelerating when they cut it.

Plug: Vibrant Performance Vanjen clamps ensure 0 boost leaks in this monster! 

What you see in the video is sadly not accepted as a Guinness book record because there were not 2 runs. Hennessey speaks of how difficult it was to get inside of NASA grounds for this run, and it was not up to them not to run a second pass. Hennessey also does not consider themselves in direct competition with Bugatti Volkswagen so this is no problem. That unofficial 270mph on video is far good enough for the masses.

Great work, Hennessy!

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.”

Nick Primero

“Tigging away on racecars this week.”

Samuel Hoskins

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

Richard Rasmussen

“Thirsty?”

Brandon Kalcsics

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

Race Ready Fab

“Civic custom exhaust 304ss machine thermal arc 186”

Derek at SpeedFactory

“Backdoor intercooler endtank with change.”

Dane Reynolds

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

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

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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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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A quick snip of NOS51/TD Autowerkes 2jz-powered Foxbody Mustang dialing in the car. This is only 60′ testing, but it looks promising. 60′ was a 1.23! More to come on this…

Face it, there is not much out there better than the feeling of luxury. To not be in a “racecar” yet still have tons of power on tap has become the new must-have. Street cars are getting faster daily and we cannot get enough of it. SNL Performance gives us what we want with this lude and insane CTS-V claiming “Most powerful CTS-V in the world” at 1309 rear wheel horsepower. Others have came close, but at nearly 3 times the factory engine’s horsepower output this old man’s car sounds like a bully on the street. We hope to see more video soon. Maybe some 2k videos will surface of this car.. you never know!

So enjoy this 170mph pull with us. Crank the volume, too!

Recent conversation has prompted the topic of “Prep is everything” around here at Fabrication Life.  This is a rule, a token of wisdom that should help anyone produce higher quality welds and finished products.  Seriously, why should the end product of fabrication get all of the attention in the process?  We hope this will open our readers minds to the importance of quality prep-work in the grand scheme of fabrication.  It is one of the most important moments in the process and one that it often times overlooked – leaving the work much to be desired. Continue reading →

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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Tig’d Up Tuesday on the Fabrication Life Facebook fan page was great this week in terms of submissions! You would think 10-15 submissions would have been posted but we were just a bit busy! Thank you again to everyone who posted. 

This week, we will show off a few of the submissions which did not get posted along with the posted material:

Niels Hattas

“TI-exhaust system for KTM/Nelson Welding” (Bike was built by Maarten Janssens)

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The PRI Show (now owned by SEMA) has moved back to it’s classic location of Indianapolis.

the cold weather, attendance is looking to be strong over the next 3 days. We are at the Vibrant Performance booth, and will have free stickers available the entire show. Please stop by, take a few, and tell us if you follow us! We also plan to do updates periodically about the show on Facebook, and have a daily report about PRI posted on FabricationLife.com

We walked through the venue last night and snapped a few photos of the booths as they were setting up.

Seeing this car on track is mind-blowing at times.

Real Time Racing

Blower Cars always get big attention, this one will draw a crowd!

This build is extremely interesting. Ford GT with a blow-thru setup, using VanJen Clamps, big screw supercharger, electronic city, and a completely redesigned cooling system. More to come on this car on FabricationLife.com.

Here you can see the prep work going into the display.

We will update more on the PRI Show. Check back to see what craziness we find, and who we happen to see. If you have something you are wanting to see tell us!