And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I'm sure someone will correct me, but the CBX was a real piece of art with the 6-2-1 exhaust on it. This goes one step further with the TIG discoloration.
The CBX was a piece of art, but I'll bet the exhaust weighed over 40lbs. It was double walled steel so the chrome wouldn't discolour from the heat. Looks like someone has considerable welding skills and a lot of winter nights with nothing else to do. Al_in_Ottawa
Its not that, not enough straight length between complex multi axis bends for holding Ti in place on the slipper block. That diameter titanium tube stock you got to clamp about 6 inches at least cause it is very rugged metal. Does not like to cold form, and you can not get it to flow back to the outside of the radius, loves to tear. Eats aluminum bronze wipers out like crazy. The technique here is taking small sections of a radius and fitting them in the appropriate location to create a close to perfect tangent, lot of tacking and re-tacking and platen sanding the butt joints exactly to meet up where you want them.
I'm sure someone will correct me, but the CBX was a real piece of art with the 6-2-1 exhaust on it. This goes one step further with the TIG discoloration.
ReplyDeleteThe CBX was a piece of art, but I'll bet the exhaust weighed over 40lbs. It was double walled steel so the chrome wouldn't discolour from the heat.
ReplyDeleteLooks like someone has considerable welding skills and a lot of winter nights with nothing else to do.
Al_in_Ottawa
I have the ultimate respect for the welder. But I don't think he or the builder ever heard of a mandrel.
ReplyDeleteIts not that, not enough straight length between complex multi axis bends for holding Ti in place on the slipper block. That diameter titanium tube stock you got to clamp about 6 inches at least cause it is very rugged metal. Does not like to cold form, and you can not get it to flow back to the outside of the radius, loves to tear. Eats aluminum bronze wipers out like crazy. The technique here is taking small sections of a radius and fitting them in the appropriate location to create a close to perfect tangent, lot of tacking and re-tacking and platen sanding the butt joints exactly to meet up where you want them.
DeleteWhat are the springs near the head for? Vibration dampening?
ReplyDeleteThose aren’t springs, they’re heat dissipation fins….
ReplyDeleteThe exhaust is slip fit onto stub header pipes. The springs keep the real headers from falling off.
ReplyDeleteSpin Drift
Thank you spin drift, that makes sense.
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