Part 2 how to clamp exhaust tubing

[ADSR]

Re: Part 2 how to clamp exhaust tubingq

What's the project?

LSX Swap?

 

[Jere]

Re: Part 2 how to clamp exhaust tubingq

A swivel vice mounted to the side of your table goes along way

(sorry I don't know why the picture is turning itself sideways here, it's rightside up on the hosting page)

Also welding vices grips in a vice can give you better access to the sides of the tube you are welding than just using the vise itself

 

[scratchedup]

Re: Part 2 how to clamp exhaust tubingq

Part of the project. Add CATS, O2 bungs and complete re-do to an HKS dual on G35TT.

 

[dladcock]

Re: Part 2 how to clamp exhaust tubingq

Hose clamps.

 

[spv]

Hose clamps work great on sections with straight joins. If you cut through the radius of a 45 or 90 where the mandrel bend necks, you will see hose clamps do not work. When the diameters do not match the hose clamp does not grip both pieces. It grips the piece with the largest diameter. Best practice is to avoid cutting on the bend, but sometimes it is unavoidable for complex systems. Headers that fit in cars with little under-bonnet room have to snake down past a firewall, over a CV shaft and up under a car body, which happens to have a tunnel offset slightly from the exhaust ports makes it nigh on impossible to not cut on the bends to get the right fit..

 

[sakurama]

Try these:

Ice Engine clamps

But if you hope you're going to clamp something and transport it farther than a few feet you'll be disappointed with anything. Fab happens right where you're at.

Gregor

 

[Murphy4570]

I just hold it with one hand and tack it with my other hand. Not too hard to do.

 

[Jere]

I just hold it with one hand and tack it with my other hand. Not too hard to do.

Depends on what you are welding with though. I am not going to be able to hold my O/A torch, filler rod and some pipe with just two hands

 

[NUTTSGT]

Another GJ thread with some awesome information. I never thought masking tape would hold.

 

[metalhead212121]

sakurama- pretty cool webite! Pricey stuff but cool none the less.

 

[scratchedup]

Try these:

Ice Engine clamps

But if you hope you're going to clamp something and transport it farther than a few feet you'll be disappointed with anything. Fab happens right where you're at.

Gregor

These are in the truly awesome category. I bet they are expensive. Christmas is coming.

 

[bgarrett]

Quite often I hold the piece up and mark the join with chalk, or magic marker, then weld. its quick, its easy

 

[lehr]

Take a hose clamp and cut a couple slots out of it to tack weld through, works great and cheap !

Pat