how to fill a gap, hmt style
 

nothing special but i had these pics so i figured id post them

yeah ive got about 1hr of welding under my belt and my rig is the usual wire-fed mig jobber

i had to mate a 2" pipe to this 2.5" piece so i just filled it with nuts/bolts/some weld.

look how sexy it is :3

ill probably add a small layer of jbweld just to be safe. yes i had to make sure at least one piece of my setup was gnarly as ---- and here it is.

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rad

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Quite :y

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.. haven't thought of tossing bolts in there before welding...

new hmt standard

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there is a point where you just being ghetto and dumb because there are about 5 better ways to fill a gap like that that also cost zero dollars

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its ------- ugly...... O0 O0

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Lol, yea usually when I need to fill gaps like that i use the scraps from pieces of piping that i've already cut from prior fabrications. Guess your method works too, some might call it art? :y

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When I need to fill gaps I fill them with just weld. weld a little, let it cool, weld a little more to the edge, let it cool, ect ect.

It only works on stuff so big though.

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Or cut tabs in the end, bend down, fill a minimal gap, done.

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LOL, I just got some metal pieces to fit in there but whatever works.

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i think i did that once just not as hardcore. HMT is so ghetto we can't go to advance auto and get 2.5-2" reducers :6

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If you're going to keep it super HMT. Take some metal coat hangers & use them as filler rod.

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Wow..

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i was expecting somthign totally different. i thought i was going to see some crappy write up on bridging and then i saw that bad boy. may be better ways that are cheaper out there.. but none are probly as quick as chucking a bolt in there bahaha. like said before... setting new hmt standard O0

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i wouldn't run that. there is hmt and ------. that is ------, to spend more in weld and hardware, than to just take a minute to do it a little less ------.

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^ coming from the person who built a manifold out of fencepost?

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haha i'm quotin that ---- O0

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hey, it was easier AND cheaper. materials vs time vs aesthetics, i won all of those hands down. it was basically to prove the ole 'stop using fencepost for fucks sake!' on chargepiping, and make a manifold out of it. outside of right angles and poor flow, some bends and a little work would have made a nice flowing manifold.

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it cost barely anything, 1 bolt, 3 nuts from just my junk draw of billions of nuts/bolts. there isnt that much weld, the flow isnt poor because its going from the little side to the big side not vice versa.

why do people think this cost a lot? theres one bead of weld around everything, i welded the 2" piece in and then bent the 2.5" as close to the 2" piece i could by wacking it with a hammer. why wouldnt you run it? you ran pvc charge pipes.

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It would have been better if you just cut slits on the bigger pipe and reduce the diameter to 2" then weld the slits after. Thats how I made my own reducer.

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no

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yes

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exactly how I do it. When I had one of those 1/4" gaps from 2.5" - 3" I just centered the pipe in the flange as much as possible and did this method. Came out rather nicely.

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coming from the idiot who tries to convice a bunch of ghetto techinicians that waste their time on a message board that he is a hardcore gangster.

it doesnt leak, its smooth inside, there is nothing wrong with it just looks like ass from the outside. it wouldnt flow any better if done the other way, it would just use more weld.

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I dont see a problem with it.....nice :1

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Not the first or last time that will happen. Project Slut was full of these welds. Just ask the Prez.

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Next time i get a fatty gap im doing that, I ------- hate spending 5mins doing a ---- load of small tacks to fill a hole >:(

Those welds look pretty sweet :6

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Good way to ---- up a nice mandrel bend ::)

Nice HMT touch though...

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---- making one less coupler in my setup must be ruining my bends ???

damn there are a lot of idiots here who dont understand how things work

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now thats hmt

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ok how wont it work?

its a smooth 2 - > 2.5 transition flowing from the smaller side to the bigger side. it just looks like ---- on the outside.

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+1 ------ish
There are better things to use than that. Atleast make the attempt to use a similar metal.
Oh, and I got dibs saying you cap that pipe on both ends & pressurize it. It leaks somewhere. Rule #1 to laying HMT birdshield flux core welds. There is no such thing as perfectly sealed...



Not that I care what you do tho.

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Coming from someone that knows nothing about how to make a simple transition but throw nuts and bolts into a gap. Good job genius.

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thanks muffin ;)

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thats totally HMT style right there! i like it!

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a little bondo and jb weld would help the style :y

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Ever hear of a saw? He could always chop off the end if he doesn't like it :S

Whats into you guys lately, if its ghetto the least bit everyone jumps on ya...

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Complex.....your Av is disturbing.

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man ---- the haters they can go back to honda untech or where ever they came. that ---- is ------- ugly, but it works, true HMT, props