Reminder: A madwoman on Best Motoring machined her own intake manifold

"PanchoVilleneuve ST" (PanchoVilleneuve)
06/03/2016 at 11:44 • Filed to: Best Motoring

Because she’s so much more awesome than all of us. Or more insane. Or both. It sure does make a glorious noise.

DISCUSSION (11)

S65 > PanchoVilleneuve ST
06/03/2016 at 11:46

That Was A Good Episode

Kinja'd!!!

PanchoVilleneuve ST > S65
06/03/2016 at 11:48

I love the R31 House Skyline. Converted to carbs for no reason other than it’s cool as fuck and sounds like a Hakosuka.

JustAnotherG6 > S65
06/03/2016 at 11:58

Is that the manifold in question? (can’t watch video b/c work)

If so, the appropriate adjective would be welded, fabricated, or made. Machined implies that is was one piece of stock and she removed metal from a large block of material to get the final shape inside and out.

If not, that is a sweet piece of custom fab work.

S65 > JustAnotherG6
06/03/2016 at 12:03

No.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JustAnotherG6
06/03/2016 at 12:40

+1 for correct verbs. I design parts all day and put them in the work system based on required steps. This at my place of work would be a step at the standard sheet metal fab group (covers shear, turret punch, brake, roll brake), a machining group step (where tubing cutting happens, also the bar stock for the engine side plate and drilling of holes), a weld group step, and an acid wand or dip tank step (because stainless).

JustAnotherG6 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/03/2016 at 13:00

When I graduated college (BS in Industrial Technology with an emphasis in Manufacturing) I went to work at a precision gear shop for a few years. I now work for a Steel Service Center initially in CNC Programming (for our lasers/plasmas/oxy-fuel cutting machines), then managing our Outside Processing (Machining, Forming, Plating, Paint, and a little Welding) and now in IT.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JustAnotherG6
06/03/2016 at 13:05

BSME, Ga Tech ‘10, here. I work in a shop that builds custom environmental chambers and equipment, so it’s mostly sheet metal but with a lot of wacky little things thrown in. The most computerized of any of our processes here (other than laser stuff we sometimes contract out) is the turret punch, which is 15-20 year old Euromac Italian-made deviltry. No G-code, no modern interface, something horrifying and in-between.

JustAnotherG6 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/03/2016 at 13:13

Nice. I graduated from ISU in ‘01. Most of our stuff ends up going straight to OEMs. We have coil leveling lines, slitters and one remaining oxy-fuel machine that are pushing 25 to 30 yrs old. When I first started at the gear shop they were still using automatic lathes controlled by camshafts. Some of the CNC lathes had the option of being programmed by punch tape. Many of the smaller gear machines we used were made Pre-WWII for the Swiss watch industry. Before I left we got in the newest gear machines the shop had from the early ‘70s where they were programmed by diode pins you would place in what was essentially a large breadboard to control what happened and when. Seriously wacky shit but they produced some damn fine product.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JustAnotherG6
06/03/2016 at 13:36

We don’t have oxy torches or anything here - all self-ventilating screamer torches. Some kind of liability thing involving the oxygen. Compared to the diode board stuff - yikes, at least the Euromac has a little preview space so you can see what you’re setting up for and tell if it’s fucky in some way. Which doesn’t tell you if you’re set for enough withdrawal for 11GA when you’re punching it, of course, nor if the shoe setting is correct, but it’s not horrible once you’ve figured it out.

We farm out most of our lathing and have a pure manual lathe for everything we do in-house. The spot welder and the brake are digital in terms of having seven-element displays and some electronic control, but aren’t exactly user-friendly either.

g_berserk > PanchoVilleneuve ST
06/03/2016 at 17:02

By far my favorite episode of BM

I love the bit with Tsuchiya screaming uphill on the R34, but I completely had forgotten about the R32, that girl is indeed way more awesome than many or most of us.

MonkeePuzzle > PanchoVilleneuve ST
06/03/2016 at 17:33

I loev how casually she says “no, I milled it myself”