The Project Pad

Hows it going everyone? Figured id start a project thread on all the fun ive been up to this year.

First up, Doing a little intake manifold for my old ladys vr6..Inlets are 1/2 radius-ed with 10 degrees of taper.





Then we got a Intake for my 16 valve Volkswagen, slowly making some progress.






Ive been slackin on making the bending die for oval tubing so i decided to make some 45 deg bends out of solid billet.




Made a radiator shroud for the half size radiator..



vw aba plenum plate



O ringed throttle body flange


Ill try to keep updating as i make more Hope everyone enjoys, sorry for the over load of pics!!

Nice work Chris.

Very nice looking stuff. Hope you can bring some more nice parts to this place.

Thank you guys, greatly appreciated. I will try to update as frequent as possible

yup, these parts are top notch....

and while they are focused on VR6 and 4cyl 16v and 8v stuff, these guys can make you anything.

like coilover sleeve plates for custom coilover setups to radius plates for intercoolers to Porsche Big Brake adapters ( ) to anything you can think of or draw.

and it is good to see that you made a lil intro thread, Chris.

Brilliant,

Thanks for sharing.

Man so much cool on this site...........I'm loving it.

Cheers,

Craig Cook.

nice work!!

Its nice to finaly be able to post somewhere without it getting flagged or deleted! If anyone is interested in having something made or even someone starting out in machining and want to ask some questions please do feel free to get in contact!

Yeah Chris, we are happy to foster growth with your company. We may move this topic into a different subforum to keep projects directed more towards car projects, but we will find a place for it here.

excellent, Hank.

and yes, it does feel good to be able to post up your creativity among fellow enthusiasts without fear of repercussion or deletion.

and, as we talked about, the only requirement here is that you support your stuff, share it, and your expertise and help is worth its weight in gold. or at least aluminum chips off the machines

and Hank, sorta like a DIY/Fabrication forum maybe? a place that is semi related to car stuff but more about stuff like this, welding tips, etc.

speeding-g60 wrote:and Hank, sorta like a DIY/Fabrication forum maybe? a place that is semi related to car stuff but more about stuff like this, welding tips, etc.

nice work guys, and welcome to the project pad!

A small CNC is high on my wish list for the shop.

Nice pieces Chris and it's good to have you and your expertise here at the Pad. Looks like you will fit right in with this crowd!

This CNC stuff needs it's own dedicated space for sure.

Exciting times for the car nut crowd.

Bring on the goodness.

Cheers,

Craig

This ones from about a year ago but sure u guys will enjoy. Part of converting a 2003 mini cooper over to a electric race car.
1 off flywheel for a company called craven speed

Awesome! Thanks for posting up Chris, I got busy and havnt started anything..... I'll get a thread started soon.

Hank, along with maybe a fabrication/welding/CNC section. What about a section for our workspaces/shops. I've been messin around on a place called garagejournal.com pretty neat stuff. It's awesome seeing what comes out of people's work spaces, or lack of for that matter.

Good idea on the workspaces/shops section - nice CNC work guys!

Yes, I think we are working on something like that. I think we will restructure a few parts of the main page to make it less cluttered and have more room for growth on small companies wanting to showcase their work. I think a Fab section would be awesome, as it really does foster growth for people building parts and purchasing parts.

Hank wrote:Yes, I think we are working on something like that. I think we will restructure a few parts of the main page to make it less cluttered and have more room for growth on small companies wanting to showcase their work. I think a Fab section would be awesome, as it really does foster growth for people building parts and purchasing parts.

I had another fun project over the weekend for a 12v vr6. turned out pretty good i think.

started with this 20x10x3 solid chunk of billet

^^^ very sexy

Thank you. Alot of time went into that one.

oh my word. I thought it was an oil pan! Its marvelous! Not fitting that in logitudnal audi!! Beautiful work man!! More exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!