Todays Project - What did you do today?

[Roadracer_Al]

A friend of mine got an Alpine Sunbeam shell for cheap, and has been laboring to put a Ford V6 into it.  Weird motor - 2.4L (iirc), cast iron, from the '70s, narrow angle, extremely compact.  Anyway, someone makes a swap kit for this motor into the Alpine, and I've been handling some of the welding for him.

The latest hurdle to overcome was that the thermostat housing outlet pointed exactly the wrong way.  So I got a stick of aluminum tube down at ye olde metal recycler/salvage/retail joint and whipped this up.  

In retrospect, I should have taken "before" pictures.  The flat plate covers where the outlet used to be.

While I think the work is satisfactory, it's not awesome, and I do wish I could get perfect, shiny rows of bead.

I told him that if it leaks, I'll machine one from solid for him.