Been thinking about how best (read locostliest) to attach GSXR bodies to the zetec DCOE type manifold. New flanges and rubbers are going to cost.
Can anyone advise or see problems with simply tig welding them in place. Granted they will not be removable but I cant see myself removing them
anyway. At a future date the manifold could be recovered and as good as new with a little milling if I ever found I could afford jenveys.
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how about welding them to a plate, then cutting the plate to fit the manifold? then you could take them off easily with no threat of harm to the
manifold.
just a thought.
dave
Main problem I see with tig welding them is that if you get even the slightest bit of distortion then the spindles may go out of alignment, leading to
a stiff and sticky throttle...
Neil
Can't quite remember but isn't there a manifold that bolts the two together?
Something like the ST170 manifold or something is compatible.
Does that help? 
Cheers,
James
what about cutting the flange off the manifold, so just leaving the head flange and stubs (like an ST170 manifold) and using the bike rubbers to connect them?
Nev Powell on the Sylva list has machine up some flanges
I'll U2U his details over
Get some 42mm id tubeing and a 3mm plate
cut the tubing to 4 short lengths
weld the tubing to the plate and match it up to the manifold
Attach the TBs to this new manifold
*or*
make the manifold yourself using the same method and sell the DCOE one...
Just about to suggest the same!
Only issue is getting hte connecting bits of rubber - they aint cheep. I've got some blackbird throttle boddies i need to do the same with.
I've seen petrol filler pipe and jubillee clips used to good effect...
I have looked at all the above and am still stuck on cost which is why I thought about tig welding. Is it technicaly possible. The bodies are fairly solid, seat flat on the manifold, can be clamped up firmly. Is distortion a likely problem. Are the two metals likely to be so dissimilar as to make welding a no?
I made up my own adaptors using some tube and flat plate, all glued together with Technoweld. Used short pieces of coolant hose for the connectors.
Some pics in my archive in throttle bodies folder.
It's no so much that the metals might be different, but that the process of welding involves melting metal and then letting it cool down again.
As metal cools it contracts, so pulls everything towards it. When you have molten 'weld' falling on the cool(er) manifold and bodies, all
sorts of interesting things happen.
Depending on the thickness of the metals and the distance between the weld point and the spindles, you may be okay.
Gary
Think I will have a go with the Lumiweld/Technoweld stuff for starters
I have been looking for some rubber to fit my throttle bodys and eventually got around to visiting the local hydraulic supplier.
I got a meter of 38mm id hose with a smooth bore and about 3mm wall thickness for £7 said to be fuel and oil resistant its a bit like rad hose. also
had it in 40mm id and im sure other sizes.It fits the 40mm od throttle bodys easily and allowed me to join them to 38od manifold stubs.
Just got to get some decent looking jubillie clips .
Paul
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Originally posted by MikeR
Just about to suggest the same!
Only issue is getting hte connecting bits of rubber - they aint cheep. I've got some blackbird throttle boddies i need to do the same with.
good thinking PaulF..........
got some of those places near me !
I wouldn't even think of the welding the throttle bodies directly to the manifold, the chances of having a combined scrap manifold and throttle
bodies is far too high IMO.
If they are anything like carbs, the alloy is more like a zinc die casting rather than aluminium.
If you have access to a TIG, then chop up your manifold to leave just the flange and get some suitably sized alloy stubs welded to it and connect the
TB's via shrot lengths of rubber/silicon hosing as it was on the bike. Short bits of straight silicon hose is not that expensive (the bends are
the expensive things). Have a look on ebay, there are often people selling Samco style hosing cheaply.
quote:
Originally posted by paulf
Just got to get some decent looking jubillie clips
