When the Caterham F1 team were searching down the back of the sofa trying to fund themselves to the end of, what would be, their last season, I bought one of their old exhaust manifolds. It’s very lovely, beautifully welded, titanium and I would like to turn it into something, much like WCA does, that can be displayed in polite company, not just stored in a box in my parents loft.

I had thought of some sort of table, but the shape of it means it would literally just have to be attached to a table some how, not an integral part of it.

What do we think of putting LEDs in it and having it as a lamp either the way up below or a tall lamp (perpendicular to how it is in the pic?

[url=https://flic.kr/p/VnxaTi]Ideas[/url] by tom howard, on Flickr

or something I haven’t thought of?

Use it as a massive bong?

@aP beat me to it 😀

Mount it so the bit on the left stick upward, mount an old fashioned bulb holder in it.

Put on of these on. job done.

Not a smoker, but I’d have to second third the bong idea.

It’s Inconel and not Titanium.

You know how we all end up building a bike once we’ve got one random part kicking about (a hub, seatpost, bottle cage etc)?

Well I think you should build an F1 car 🙂

Beard with a pair of flip flops and youve got a second income on your hands..
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0gED3rn2Tc[/video]

Sell it to Honda, could be an improvement 🙂

Could you shove mount some of those very 70s fibre optic lamps into each hole and the have a slightly HR Geiger-esque illuminated sculpture?

Speakers and alexa or chromecast

Extractor for the hob?

Mini chimney for a wood-fired pizza oven for maximum STWness.

Some ideas here…

http://www.cherishedparts.co.uk/en-GB/furniture-and-art/m/product/group/1-all-furniture

Shower head
Garden fountain

I like finbar’s idea. Seems apt for an exhaust.

I think it would probably make a rubbish chimney.

Normally quite good at this but really struggling. It would make a great hamster run. Or screw it to the wall through the cylinder face plates with the exit pipe bit vertical. Seal it and use it as a flower vase in some sort of ironic twist on its previous use. Or mount it to the wall in the same way mount a light in base facing upwards; get a tube of glass made up the same diameter and an fish tank air pump bubbling gently (and maybe some tiny fish).

We have this in one of our offices…

http://www.racinggold.co.uk/red-bull/exhaust-lamp

(and I want to take it home with me!!)