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New solution to Blowing Couplers
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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.. Attachment 17572 Then ya put the crappy clamp on and it holds great.. Attachment 17573 Attachment 17574 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.. |
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I have found success in welding
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What are bar and plate clamps?
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Re: New solution to Blowing Couplers
Originally Posted by chris
I have found success in welding
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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
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yea welding works good, but i cant weld aluminum, and its what i had in the garage, i welded from the turbo to the ic, but the other side is all aluminum...
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
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Re: New solution to Blowing Couplers
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
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damn sounds like we are all thinkin on the same page....heat that sucker up!!!
i think im just gonna weld some nice fat beads on the end of my pipe.. |
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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.
Not to mention cleaning after the heat gets to it and you have to weld the pipes |
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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.. Fixed for Booooook... Scruffy terra' LOL |
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i love how bdvt has almost 3500 posts and still cant quote people right ;D
yea i know the irony cause im a worthless post ----- ;) |
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lol i was going to say the same thing :D
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Electrical tape sucks... should've just made a bead of JB weld.
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i used to find a way to zip tie ---- when i had my ghetto setup. I had PVC 90* elbows (---- anyone who says they melt, they lasted 35K miles on a D @ 10#'s) and i forgot how i did it but i'd ziptie everything to everything and it worked :P
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just flare the end of the piping, or cut slits in the end of the pipe all the way around and bend it a little bit up. Welding a bead is a much better way
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poor mans welding = http://search.harborfreight.com/cpis...=pipe+expander + couplers
they got em for alot cheaper.. there are the non screw ones which is basically a cone shape that you hammer into the pipe.. ittl expand one end of the pipe so you can jam the other end of the piping into it.. if i were to do it id expand both ends of the piping and cut a 3rd piece of piping to go inside both of them and the couples would never come offf at all |
Re: New solution to Blowing Couplers
Originally Posted by chris
Not to mention cleaning after the heat gets to it and you have to weld the pipes I just noticed that it made the standard clamps hold better.... Not comparing to welding...but in my case, my welds all have pin hole leaks.. took an hour to re weld everything today to try and eliminate the bigger leaks.. |
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you could just buy the right size clamps from me. i have never had a properly sized t-bolt come off
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i've tried tape before doens't work for long. once it gets hot the tape slips off
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why cant you just... i mean... i dont know. flare the ends?
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cuz thats just too baller for him.
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have you ever seen warm/hot electrical tape? you fail :X
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grey rtv silicone around the pipe and then ur coupler and clamp. seen that done and that seems to work pretty good.
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Drill a 1/4" hole on either side of the coupler in the piping. Put a bolt and washer in the hole from the inside out and tighten it up with some High temp RTV for sealant. Cut some aluminum flat-bar to a little over the distance of the bolts, and pop two holes in it to match the bolts. Bolt it to the new "studs", and it's never coming off. Or just weld aluminum studs on.
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