I DID IT! FINALLY MADE REAL PROGRESS ON MY DRAG CADDY!
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2023
- Episode 280 of Mike Finnegan's Garage features one my my favorite cars, my 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, and I'm custom building my own set of stainless steel headers for the twin-turbo Big Block Chevy. The 540ci monster is going to breathe through 2-1/4 inch primary tubes, which will exit into a 3" billet stainless steel merge collector and then flow into Nelson Racing Engines Mirror Image turbos. This video is full of tricks, tips and tools that will help you build your own headers, too! Want more info on the stuff I used in this video? Here are some super helpful links for you!
Nelson Racing Engines Mirror Image Turbos
nelsonracingengines.com/produ...
Dogfab FUPA 12 torch cup
furickcup.com/product/fupa-12...
Shearer fab T6 to 3" round weld flange
shearerfabrications.com/produ...
Stainless headers Mfr Header Welding Purge Plate
www.stainlessheaders.com/i-30...
Fein tools Magnetic Vise with 4" Jaws
toolstoday.com/fein-907010040...
Miller welders Dynasty 400 TIG Runner Package with Wired Foot Control
store.cyberweld.com/products/...
Finnegan Speed and Marine Merch
ww.fsmgarage.com
Thanks for watching!
-Finnegan
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From header welds that ray Charles did with his feet (as you said) to headers that look beautiful the last 10 years of progression have been amazing to watch
We all realize that FSM is a 2 guy operation and your schedule is hectic but, when you and Joe are in your garage working on the caddy myself and everyone else subscribed to Finnigan's Garage have a big ole grin watching it come together. I can see the final product just from what you've described and the anticipation for you guys having the time to work on it. Looking forward to 2024 and what you and Joe bring to all of us watching your channel. Happy New Year!! 🎉
Building any exhaust you need to order a set of these makes your job half the time ICEngineWorks Exhaust Header Modeling Blocks
Thanks for watching! i love working on this car. Now that Blasphemi is back in one piece and running I'll have more time to work on the Caddy. :)
Should name the Cadillac the Panty Dropper
@@howiefeltersnatcher, I bought the 1 3/4” ICE kit for my turbo headers, guess what else the kit is good for, rollcage designing.😊
One of the awesome things about this video is seeing that beaming smile on your face because you achieved fantastic looking headers successfully.
Congratulations Mike! You deserve a long distance high five for that.
As someone who's lost count of how many sets of headers I've built I can assure you that I enjoyed watching you overcome the struggles of header fabrication. There's a reason custom headers are expensive and this video shines a light on all the details that go into doing it right. Keep digging, you're doing great!
thank you.
From a food/pharmaceutical stainless welder of 11 years: when you tack, try to do the smallest tacks you can possibly do to still connect the parts, then once it's under purge, add one or two between each of the first tacks, then you can reburn the original tacks that might have sugared on the inside with more heat. You might end up with some little black specks on the surface, but that spot will be smooth on the inside and not crusty.
What kinda line up clamps do you use?
@@alexbrown4820 the sanitary tubing almost always has straight sections on each bend and for those we have TechSouth Products clamps in every size which are super nice, but run about $250 each. 😭 If it's a rare cut mid bend, I just wing it, lol. Get the first tack, then use a c-visegrip to get everything to line up. Sanitary tubing bends are way more consistently round than automotive bends, but there's always some deformation. Using a V block can help align two parts to get the first tack on the inside radius. The stuff I personally do is mostly hand welded, but I occasionally do some orbital too. Everything we do has to be polished to a 32RA(~180 grit) finish inside if it's within 3" of an opening and the rest has to be boroscoped and okayed by QC. Outside is usually just color cleaned with a scotchbrite wheel, but sometimes is polished to a 32RA or finer. The finest we do is a 10E RA which is 320grit silicon carbide sandpaper wheel then electropolished to a mirror finish.
I’m very surprised how good your welds look for having that huge cup and mile long stick out. You must go through so much gas homie. But your doing er bud good job!
Very good advice
One day you use bent diffs and old parts to drive across the country in one car another day you meticulously build headers for the caddy!! Love it
That merge collector is a piece of art in itself, you’re finding all the coolest stuff to put on that caddy, thanks for sharing it all with us
We all appreciate your modesty but, man, you are NOT an amateur welder. The Header you made is a work of art IMO. Welding isn't just fixing things with fire but it's also the time, patience, and thinking through the entire process. You've always been good at it, particularly TIG, and you're doing pretty damn well in a garage as opposed to a pro shop. I mean...look at what you've accomplished 👍👍 Actions speak louder than words and you've spoken volumes. Thanks for showing us all the details...and all the cool tools/gadgets! Keep doin' what you're doin'!
Great job! This is a really good representation on why things like custom headers cost so much to have made.
It's definitely time consuming. There's a three solid days of work in just that one header.
If you use a large gas lens, you can safely stick the tungsten out far enough to weld the inside side of the last header tube to the collector. Instead of dabbing the filler wire, I would use lay wire technique to make it easier.
Your patience is enviable and your excitement with the finished product is infectious. Great work, Mike!!! 👍👍
Well said! I totally agree!
Dude
That header is a piece of art bro
Nicely done dude
I'm truly impressed at how far you've come with understanding the importance of fitment.
Anybody can weld
It's the fabrication of parts that is truly an art.
thanks! ive learned a lot from watching others.
@@FinnegansGarageLearning by paying attention is it’s self an increasingly rare skill anymore. Experience only reinforces it.
Wishing you and yours an awesome 2024.
You're welding went up from experience too. You sell yourself short@@FinnegansGarage
I’d love to be able to weld at this level and earn the right to call myself an amateur lol. Can’t wait to see the Caddy hit 200mph. I’m a long time fan of Roadkill and anything else I can watch you and your friends do. Keep on keepin on!
Thanks for watching!
You know, your high level of satisifaction in the completion of the header means you are no longer in contention for the 'Ray Charle Foot Welding Award' as you are now over-qualified. CONGRATULATIONS!
When you were hitting that header at the end, I started singing 'Mississippi Queen'.
P.s, during this video, there were numerous times that I noticed how much you are looking like your dad, RIP.
This Caddy is on it's way to being the coolest Caddy on the planet
Is plan to make a drag and drive event this year
You could always o-ring the headers too. No blown out gaskets and no messy silicone
This is won the the best days of wrenching welding you have had you can see it in your mannerisms!!! Happy for you bud!!!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I would look at the Steve Morris video on welding and get some tips!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I've started buying 90 degree bends individually. They can be made with a much tighter radius if they aren't part of a much longer assembly. Those tight bends have saved me more than once when packaging is tight.
Love these videos with all the detail and explanations. Please don't go the route so many channels do with a time lapse hiding all the detail and then most of the video just goofing around.
All you were missing, was BA from the A-Team saying- I love it when a plan comes together!!
Very well explained all the way through! I didn’t see you mention the importance of the twin sharpie marks per joint that you did though. Not only does one set of marks never line up with a second set (you’ll always know which pieces go where) but it is also easier to line up two marks rather than just one for perfect clocking every time. It’s really amazing how every step you took is self learning in the process. I’ve done around 5 or 6 headers between cars and bikes over the years and literally learned everything you explained along the way quite quickly.
i forgot to explain the marks. i was hoping it was obvious what they meant. :)
Watching this, it really gives me a new respect for guys that make stainless headers. I think I've got a good level of patience, but there's no way I could do that without saying bad words and throwing stuff!
That header is art work .
That Cadillac is a beautiful car I'm glad it's not hidden away from the public . I enjoy the way you explained every step of the fabrication process . Your UA-cam channel has a little something different for everybody's interest . Thank you team Finnegan !!!
Awesome build! Thanks so much for the shout out also!
Love it when a plan comes together
That came out real nice not many pie cuts too ❤❤❤❤
Thanks to your Amazon Alexa notification at 1:11:44, my wife and I spent a couple of minutes trying to figure out what our notification was... LoL. Happy Holidays to you and your family Mike!
Nice heli-arc skills "Four-speed Finnegan stackin dimes. Outstanding.
Nice work Mike! Looks like a beast of a manifold!
Fantastic work, Mike👍😎🏁
I feel like watching you build headers has been a formative part of my adult life. So many headers, pretty awesome the possibilities it opens up 😂
Elmer also has billet elbows for tight 90s with integrated wastegate mounts. Have them for the REPU project.
Great job Mike.Ken Ross, Vancouver Island ,British Columbia, Canada
I'm a stage 3 & 4 of prostate, colorectal and pancreatic cancer and after a 6 week hospital stay and MAJOR surgery I'm sitting here on a brand new 2024 watching Ozzie Goblin on films and enjoying the Caddie. Thanks for some of my lassting memories 🎉😂😊
Thanks for watching! and good luck!
Great job Mike can't wait to see go down the road
For that "impossible" weld, you should get a W-125 Long Micro.
I use gaskets still. It's smarter to remove and change the gasket every once in a while as well. People think it's a hassle, but it's a service you pay yourself in the future, because you won't get stuck bolts. Stuck bolts happen because nobody bothers to jog the bolts like they used to do in the day. Like they do in pro racing, where these things are a person's job. Jogging your bolts every couple of oil changes = no stuck bolts down the line. Grandpa did it and that's why today, i have the OG bolts on his Merc despite having replaced the rusted out, worn header.
A few tips for purging stainless.
You can get small holes on the inside if you pulse, won't matter for your application but should be a continuous arc if doing anything food related.
Also with the argon coming out, you can lick your lips and hold them over where the argon is coming out, usually set it to just when you can feel the argon on your lips.
Headers look awesome, welding is super on point for stainless.
Just finished a set of 4 into 1s with 2.25 primaries for a bbf into a 65 mustang so feel your pain of setting those up by yourself.
that was a great video , spent the whole 1hr 11mins out in the shed watching it while the misso was cleaning the house. Very interesting and dude you killed it would of saved yourself thousands of dollars. Hats off to you bro.
Great job conquering that milestone Mike! Looking forward to continued Caddy progress in 2024.
Hey Mike , to find those little pie cuts get the two pipes put in place and wrap the hell of it with masking tape to cover the gap. Then take a razor and cut he tape out of the gap and wrap it around a pipe to get your pattern for the cut
Right on! It's about time we saw some work/progress on this Bad Ass Cad. Truly can't wait to see it run, drive, and the fun times ahead.
Beautiful job,Mike!
That caddie is going to be a work of art
Great job on that manifold Mike!
That might be the most satisfying build vid I’ve seen from you. I’m stoked for your abilities, knowledge and success on those headers. Way to go!!
thank you!
Super cool. Thank you for your time.
Very cool building something like that.
oh beautiful work again Mike
Dude I love this project! Have a wonderful 2024!
I used to be a certified natural gas pipe welder. We had to gap the seams about the thickness of the pipe wall. As you welded it with Oxy Acetylene or MIG process it would form a bead on the inside of the pipe and on the outside of the pipe. Gapping the seam was the strongest way to weld pipe together and It's the only way the weld would pass x-ray inspection. It's interesting to see how things are so different with TIG and stainless tubing.
Headers a perfect love how they look. Can’t wait hear how they sound.
Very educational tutorial! Thanks, looking forward to seeing more videos like this!!!
Nothing but awesomeness
I love the struggle Mike. It keeps the process real.
I don’t work on cars like you do, but I work on just about everything out of necessity. Things don’t always work out, but I enjoy the process none the less.
the toilet brush. An Iconic Finnegan's Garage moment. Expect a few in the mailbox (lol)
Your enthusiasm is infectious!!
Thanks for sharing your talents and adventures!!!
We can't wait to see 8.50s in the big bad caddie!!
I learnt something and enjoyed and was impressed, thumbs up
Thanks for sharing Mike!
Hey Mike. Quick story. I saw that burr hanging off the pipe was thinking please don’t grab that. Easy way to slice a finger or two open. In the Air Force I was a jet engine mechanic. A crew mate of mine grabbed a burr where the exhaust case mated and slice his finger to the bone. Love your content. Happy New Year.
Nicely done Mr F
I've been waiting for this.... patiently lol I love this project hope to see more on it soon
Hey Finnegan do you realise that you are a talented artist and that's why what you do is so rewarding think Abought it??
Great work, you are right to be proud.
Quite the difference between this set of headers and the first set for Blasphemi... Impressive improvement... congrats...
Wow! The header looks awesome! Great job Mike! Love the caddy build!
Thank you Mike, this hour long video kept me entertained while my wife was shopping!!!!!
That header came out sooooo clean! Now you just gotta do it all one more time!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks mouthing waste gates or blow off valves is cool stuff.
the passenger side header will be easier cause i wont have to film the work as i build it. lol
1. That is an awesome header fixture
2. Tial stainless v-band turbine housings are everyone's friend
3. You should either hang the turbo from a rod end, or just have the sit on top o the mount with no bolt.
4. I appreciate the patience you show when doing stuff like this- it isn't easy
Im sure a hundred people have said this, but find yourself a MLS gasket to use between your stainless flange and aluminum head. The MLS sammich makes sealing a dream, while being able to reuse basically forever.
just watched , did a very good job on the header build
Nice job Mr.Finnegan. It looks definitely time consuming but in the end you can actually be proud of the job you’ve done.👍👍🇨🇦
Love the channel Mike. Been a big fan of all the car shows and then got totally hooked when Roadkill came out 12 years ago. You're knowledge in engineering principles and mechanical fabrication is extremely impressive. You've probably forgotten more over the years than I've ever learned 🙂. The Cadillac is beyond cool and can't wait to see it finished. The best part for me is your interest in wanting the car to run eight's, while also being able to take the family for a cruise whenever you'd like. Love it - nothing better!! Keep up the great content!!
Love your videos and can't wait to see the Caddy rumble to life. Also, I'm very busy so thank gawd for X2 video speed! lol!
This is the type of content that Will get you to 1M subs!
Also want to say you seem alot happier now that you changed things up. So happy to see.
Wow! Great Job.
Very nicely done!!
71 minutes of beautiful twin turbo Caddy content
In the immortal words of the man who made those turbos, always surface machine you header flanges after welding. They are never flat even with a fixture like that.
Hello, Mike one thing I can say is on road. Kill it is who cares as long as it works? But when you are doing your own personal stuff. Bro you really do excellent work love it
Excellent job Mike! It doesn't look like Ray Charles welded it with his feet.
Could use eg. Weldcraft A80 flex torch to weld the inside of the collector to the header pipes before welding on the 3" 90°, for the missed outside welded sections
Header came out great 👍🏼
Great job, I 'm happy for you!
My good mate builds headers , he’s got small diesel truck hose clamps with holes drilled into the clamp to tig tac the exhaust pipe in place ( one man job ) 🇦🇺
Way to go Mike , that is no easy task especially when you loose your side kick and camera man on the same day! Keep the momentum up and moving you forward. FYI you bought the Caddy in Northern California from the airport hanger/ storage up by me . Glad to see your getting their on the Caddy it's going to be bad ass when your done. Now stop blowing up Blasphemi, so you can finish DADSBADCAD !!
Can't wait to see this Caddy fire up for the first time!! Lez GOOO!!!
damn man i dozed off while watching this and when i woke up you were still working on the same header
but now i have to rewatch the part i slept through 😂
Great show have some advice first the motor mount with the horse power your making the block is going to fix put some kind of adjustable strap from the head to the frame next trie a trailer hitch ball to make the tube round works when my friends bend their headers on their cars when they reck hope it helps next time
Mike, you've got some serious skills and your close attention to detail turned out a great looking header. I can't wait to see this bad boy going down the track.........it's gonna be a HOOT!
After MotorTrend went all cable tv I thought I had lost something, but your videos make up for it. I'd love to see Freiburger again some day, maybe he can join for some mail opening? Happy new year!
Grate expanding on how you done it I like it
Big fan of the Caddie build. It's so cool to see how far you've come from Ray Charles to today. Beautiful work. Keep it up.
You know I was looking the new header flange and the cut outs for spark plugs trick ❤😊 okay back to the video 😜
Stoked to see progress on the Caddy, can't wait to see this BEAST in action
Awesome ! ! !
Great job Mike! Going the extra mile to make sure everything was right was definitely the right move.
If you really want to go the extra mile for complete welding. You could cut that collector in two, weld the tubes in then weld the collector back together. I'm not that ambitious but you might be. Great video Mike!
That exhaust to head flange goes against the usual Turbo application recommendations. Books on the theme usually recommend to have separate flanges per cylinder port so the manifold can move more freely with heat expansion. If you have one single flange, it can warp more easily with the expansion of the manifold...