whats the best way of flaring a pipe so it does not pop off?

ive got loads of pipe just need to stop it popping off!

or shall i just weld them?

any one got any tips/ideas?

all comments welcome!

I had one of my pipes welded at the ends and it does the job well. Depends on what material your pipes are though as some stainless steel can be quite soft making a tidy welded bead tricky.

i planned on welding the whole thing except the conectors to the turbo and inlet!

what i was going to do was get the hard pipes made up of stainless exhaust pipe which is alot better then most soft stuff you get with intercoolers. But the pipes stayed put.

If you can find a place with the tool that puts a bead on the edge of the pipe your sorted

hmm, thats a good idea!!
my mate has one of those tools!

how much is exhaust pipe??

depends on the type of stainless but im not sure anyways you would have to go to an exhaust place.

But if you can put a bead around the hardpipe that its blowing off from that will sort the problem.

well im getting a new FMIC so i want to do all the pipe work becasue its not to my standard!!

Have also been wondering about this issue as I am now sorting out the pipes for my intercooler (Evo 6)

The answers seem to vary some what from using hairspray as an adhesive
to proper beaded ends.

I have also come across this website recently Clicky



I was talking to a fried at the weekend who said if I sorted the pipework out he would weld all the pipe together and more interestingly, run a line of weld around the ends to create the lip where the hoses will need to go.

The hardest part i'm finding is finding out what pipes i need, there is a How to but all the links are dead now

Let me know how you get on, what intercooler have you got?

could run a weld around them but thenm you might as well just weld all the pipes and be done with connectors & joins!!

i got a FMIC from Motormec random part clear out!

should be fitted before brooklands!

Ask at a local sheet metal engineer if they have a swager suited to the job or send it to me, I have one.

Nik

Your to far away way, I sadly need it before Friday!!

Put a few beads of weld around the end of the pipe,

thats what i did.

Ben

Exhaust pipe will be a lot heavier, I'd just weld the intercooler pipes, or use better jubilee clips?

Spotted this idea for a home-made beading tool .

Might have a go at this myself for when I go to fit my FMIC.

Baz

thats quite clever

i use these and trust me your pipes will never pop Tbolt clamps

http://www.viperperformance.co.uk/productsearch.php?xscId=9790#

i also use them

i also gave the pipe a little grind (about 2inch) just to make it ruff for extra grip when clamp tight.

Cool but I have non flared pipe, it will pop off soon as boost comes on!!

i have non flared pipes and ive had 24psi of boost go through mine and no issues

really??
i would be worries personaly... i have nothing but bad luck with boost pipes, last time mine popped off i shat my self thinking i popped the engine!!! lol

try a little hairspray aswel

ok... so hair spray and clips!

i will try it on a pipe to see how it goes!

thats genius!

just to bring up an old thread, would it be *safe* to bend the end of the pipe back to flange it and fit the pipes??

i mean put sone small cuts/nips in the end and flair it out?

yeee ha!!! giddy up giddy up

or

http://www.patrol4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32950

I see j has his claws out!!

Well tbh j if I had a welder to make that then I would weld the pies up and be done with it!!

I have used circular pipe clamps and I made the tool in the post above.

It works really well.

Shouldn't have any problems blowing off now

Karl, i may need your assistance mate lol

call in the favour time

yea ok matey, i still got to change the route from left hand side (turbo outlet to intercooler) as aircon gets in the way to run on topof the subframe.

I need to get sharp u bend to run pipe behind intercooler then down under to turbo.

currently the pipe is less than 3" of floor.


O and i had to chop loads of bumper away lol

btw the pipe clamps that i got included in the kit are these.


Fleabay


I highly recommend them, tighter than a 40 year old virgin