After watching your videos and being a subscriber for almost two years I finally was able to buy a turbo NB Miata. Hands down best Miata content on RU-vid. Can’t wait to see the built 6.0 and the new motor for Molly. Keep doing what you’re doing. From a fellow Kaleb.
Tip for tig when you Weld something hollow you have to fill it with your shielding gas or else regular air will cause porosity coming from inside the pipe
If you want an easier time drilling, get a decent name brand set of cobalt drill bits from amazon. They last much longer compared to normal bits and do excellent drilling harder metals. Cutting fluid also helps, and drilling holes larger than about 1/4 with a pilot hole first.
The Wrench'o'phone is where it's at! Great video and thanks for sharing the new Intercooler install. Kinda cool seeing my name in the Outro. Best wishes and Peace Out!
Tips for tig welding aluminum: When welding two different size pieces (radiator -> mounts) it is important to heat up the bigger piece a lot. Thin aluminum has a tough time distributing heat all over the piece, some times I use a torch to get the whole piece hot. 90% of the time more heat spread out is better.
If you want some low engine temps, check out; reflect a gold. It's a great heat resistant wrap! Loving the build dude, I've watched since the video game days. You should do a little throw back intro back to the golden days, you still game right?!
Aluminum welding is tricky, it’s a heat sink and it puddles/melts at a much smaller temperature range than steel. You need to sink a lot of heat into the rad and less into the bracket because of the vast size difference. Once the puddle begins on the rad bring it over to the bracket and you should be good. Keep at it boss !
If you want to stop your drill bits from dulling, use cutting oil. Less heat generated and an easier cut. Whenever cutting pipe, try putting a sodden dowel in the middle. It will stop the pipe from rounding out.
Try increasing your gas flow if it starts looking contaminated or clean the metal with a brand new wheel and brush, try to use different wheels for each type of metal for the best results. Hope this helps a little.
Love the sounds can’t wait to hear mine run again. Also sick Kellogg’s shirt. You should consider fabbing a v mount setup for her when you put the new setup in!
"Molly your mission if you choose to accept it.......is to be unsuspecting, pure stealth mode. If you fail. The existant of this mission will be denied.....good luck."
Maybe something to try for the brackets. Swivel the bracket out of the way and use a torch to heat up the radiator a little bit. Flip the cool bracket onto the warm radiator and arc up on the radiator then walk the puddle over to the bracket and weld it up. Looks like the radiator is dissipating the heat really fast and the bracket is melting before you can get a puddle on the radiator.
Hey Gingium, I haven't been home in a while, but I don't know if live in the same place that you used to a while back, if you do then we now live 2 houses down from each other. I'd love to kick back and drink a beer with you. I love your builds, I was building a 2010 Audi A4 2.0T, but it was totaled a few weeks ago. I used to show all of my friends your house whenever the Miata's were outside. I'd love to hangout or even help out one day. I won't be home for a while because I'm stationed in NC. If you are home, I look forward to hanging out, if you don't want, to I look forward to seeing your car
If your drill bits are getting dull, your using them wrong!. I have used the same bits for over 5 years now, and I sharpen them two or three times a year. They will last if you are using them correctly! Low speed, lots of cooling paste while drilling and let the drill do the work, rather than pressing the drill into the material. Just a little tip. :)
you have to get aluminum super clean and fairly hot when welding aluminum, i would suggest blowtorching your aluminum before welding because it dissipates heat so damn quickly, double checking gas flow and make sure your tip is basically new and you should have a much better time. Great video though, love seeing this car get some love.
You are soooooo cool man. I love your work. Keep it up and don't let anything or anyone pull you down. I see you hitting 1mil or more by the end of next year. It's like christmas when you upload videos even if they are not that interesting and you are probably the only youtuber whose videos I watch even If I don't like it(as I am sorry for no longer being a patreon since I'm jobless rn)
Loved the vid man, wish me luck, I have an interview Wednesday to become a manager at my company. Nervous as hell and can’t sleep but really excited too
You should try and get some matco hyper step drill bits. They are super nice. And you can warranty them if they get dull or break. There is only one row of bits in the box they won't warranty and it's just the small ones. But from experience they rip.
try using cutting lubricant or at least WD40 when drilling to keep your bits from dulling after 2 uses. Also the nitride coated drill bits from harbor freight are absolute trash. get high speed steel bits or high carbon ones, but they're more brittle so a drill press is recommended.
you couldn't weld on the radiator because it still had some leftover fluids at the bottom and it was colling down the surface area, therefore, it wasn't heating up the surface enough to melt the two surface together
Remember when you wanted to buy back and build the Corolla, what was her name, mica? wild, you should definitely look into that, it would be a cool daily driver project
Bro you gotta use some lubricant (even WD40 helps) when drilling metal to help keep temps down and to mainly help save the life of your drill bits. don't be lazy and skip lube, it makes a huge difference in the lifespan of bits.
Gingium as far as the welding part of the video don't feel too discouraged about it I can tell you that welding is about fucking up a lot when you're learning. I can give you a peice of advice in that trying to weld thin gauge aluminum to a thicker peice like the radiator is an uphill battle, the thermal conductivity of the radiator is gonna keep it cooled while the thin edge of your other peice will be eaten away.
i Miss Molly she is such an awesome car, I love how he’s human Ofcourse he’s human but whenever we’re going to work on our cars we get hella stressful and we saw here with Ginguim I don’t know I just really like that