Recently had one cut for myself so just wondering if anybody else would be interested in getting anymore cut.
If so they would be continuly available
Cut on a precision plasma cutting machine from 10 mm mild steel. Ideal if your looking to make your own 6 branch or turbo manifold.
Granted it's not stainless but a good alternative
Just let us know on here or pm me
Apologies if this is posted in the wrong place too
Cheers
Mild steel m50 exhaust flanges
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I'd say £30 free postage depending on how much they cost to post
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End of the day, for a manifold, stainless only adds bling. Manifolds get hot enough to burn off any moisture pretty quickly so rust is not really an issue and there's no difference in performance.
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There's plenty of differences between the two materials. But they're both doing the same job and the bling only last so long anyways.HairyScreech wrote:End of the day, for a manifold, stainless only adds bling. Manifolds get hot enough to burn off any moisture pretty quickly so rust is not really an issue and there's no difference in performance.
A big plus side of mild is the cost factor and you don't have to worry about back purging either.
I personally if I had the spends would go stainless all day as I love welding stainless. But I'm a peasant.
Plus you could always have stainless pipe work and mild flange.
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Basically it is filling the tube you are about to weld with an inert gas like argon. Stainless oxidises at welding temps causing a bad weldmartauto wrote:What is back purging and how does the material make a difference?
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Mild steel is much more suitable for the flange of a manifold, be the rest of it made in mild or stainless.
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Yeah mild is a lot more forgiving than stainless when it comes to temperature and expansion and such. Also much easier to work with. I never knew bmw used a mild flange on the m52. Interesting to know. Learn something new everyday a‘a
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