Originally Posted by chris

I have found success in welding

Originally Posted by buk9tp

try it again in a hot ass engine bay with heated charge air and the fucker will give in at a way lower psi reading

Originally Posted by buk9tp

try it again in a hot ass engine bay with heated charge air and the fucker will give in at a way lower psi reading

Originally Posted by Cray91

This is exactly what I was thinking. Adhesive tends to get soft and gooey when it is hot and will actually cause an area of slipping for ya.

Originally Posted by igotnothin

Ok so im ------- around in the garage, and this hit me.

What you need, is

Standard 3 or 4 ply coupler
Home depot style clamps... bar and plate work, but the point is now you don’t need them ;)
Electrical tape

What ya do is place the coupler on the pipe, and wrap it with the electrical tape. I went around the coupler 20 times..
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j6...andprom086.jpg




Then ya put the crappy clamp on and it holds great..
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j6...andprom088.jpg
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j6...andprom089.jpg

I tested it on a smooth piece of aluminum charge pipe i had left over... The tape by it self held good to 40psi, and at 60 started to slide, and eventually blew off..

I haven’t tested what the holding pressure is with the clamp on yet, ill get to that latter tonight.

The whole reason i started trying it was, because my bar and plate clamps always got maxed out before it was really tight, so i out some electrical tape around it to make the circumference bigger...

It holds good to 40psi, with just the tape, and held 65psi for over a minute with the clamp and held 80psi, for10 seconds......not to many of ya if any are boosting over that... so give it a try..