TurboBerserker
The sockets are because I needed an outside radius and spare sockets gives me a nice range of "tube" in order to make the mounts. Sorry I saved some money and a lot of time going to a steel shop and buying pipe that I need a total of 1-2"s of.

See my above post responding to spoolin's post. He is the first mature, helpfull, constructive words I have seen about any of my work. I am not sure he is correct but if it seems to still raise concern I will have someone look at them.

Sorry to not respond to your question about how I am mounting the TB to the intake. I was staying out of the thread at that point due to the constant bashing about the same crazy ideas. The answer is I have some fairly thick plate(3/16ths I think) at work that I am going to have the mechanic at work take home and cut the hole with his plasma cutter. Drill the four mounting holes and be done.

The TB would be done but the *** bag at the machine shop hasn't gotten the throttle blade cut for me yet. He is really pissing me off because he won't return my calls and his secritary don't have any answers for me. They are a customer of out tire shop, hence the reason i asked them to do it, or else I would show up with an asswooping for the guy.

 

Swerve7rpm2000
I have found the higher heat certainly helps. Every time I start with the chart on the inside of my welder I always have to turn it up some.

 

ditto

 

You need the hole to be absolute smooth and the same size as the TB and manifold entry or interpolated between them. I'm not sure a plasma cutter is what you want there.

 

I learn best by trial and error, so I have to make a lot of schitty welds first

 

Or else you'll find yourself with a reversion damn that will cause some very uneven flow into your intake and possibly cause unequal distribution of air to certain cylinders.

 

I bead is very much like a steel chain, one weak link and the whole bead looses it's strength and is junk. Hence why bead consistency and spacing or "stacking dimes" as the pro's call it is very sought after.

Some of your beads look like they can be cracked off with a chisel and a hammer. Regardless, the pictures are blurry so who knows they might just do the trick. Wouldn't hurt to have a friend look at them though. Or grind them and throw down some more beads. FYI, for heavy gauge metals like the frame, most welders will layer their beads. Meaning lay a bead down and grind half of it off and weld another bead down and weld half off the new one and repeat the process until they've build up a thick layer of beads 6, 7, 8 or more thick depending on how or what they are welding.

 

The weld is only as strong as what it is being welded to, So double passes on frame rails isn't making it stronger. The weld is only gong to be as strong as the chit it's welded to

 

It won't make the structure of the metal stronger, however, making multiple passes increases the amount of surface contact between the two metals that are being welded which forms a stronger bond.

 

Holy **** that is funny!