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Originally Posted by Draco-REX
This is not OP's UEL. This is my EL. It certainly doesn't have the artistry of the nicer headers out there, but it's not the bodge job in the photos posted above.
Inside the collector. Not pretty, but not horrible. You can see they filed down the splatters on the exit pipe. I may do a little more TLC in this area.
Flanges:
This arrived today and was drop-shipped to me directly from Borla, so this should be a good example of the quality of the product coming from their factory now. It's not the best, but it's not bad either. |
The GTAW on the flange exit looks alright, but those GMAW blobs are ridiculously convex. If I'd laid crap like that down for my QC-7 test, I would have been laughed out of Hobart. That's not what a good weld is supposed to look like. They need to turn down the wire speed a tad and turn up the heat a tad to get a flatter profile (and better fusion). Or maybe they're moving the gun really slowly.
I love the sound of the Borla UEL, but damn do their welds look naff. I'd gladly pay an extra $200 for nice clean flat GTAW (Tig) welds.