Preventing Rust when Welding Exhaust components???

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Jun 5, 2006 | 09:40 PM

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Preventing Rust when Welding Exhaust components???

I'm about to get cutouts welded into my Kooks Off-Road X as well as Corsa GTR tips added to my B&B Route 66 System. Is there any special process or welding material that will not rust over time.
I know I could paint it, but I don't feel that is enough protection as paint flakes and chips off easily.

I don't really know enough about welding to know if this is possible, but I would think it would be a common enough poor sight element that people would find a way around it...

I know on the custom-made 3" exhaust system built out of a copper colored pipe on the Audi A4, none of the welds rusted, but when I had to have it cut and redone to align the tips, that new weld rusted (the muffler shop warned me it would)...I just don't remember what the differences are/were...
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Steven

Jun 5, 2006 | 11:40 PM

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About all you can do on aluminized steel pipe is just shoot it with some paint.

Jun 5, 2006 | 11:43 PM

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Buff it with a wirewheel to clean it up then hit it with some cold-galvanize spraypaint stuff. You could also do BBQ pit paint, that **** is tough.

Jun 6, 2006 | 08:43 AM

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Like the blur said, clean it up with a wire wheel and paint it with BBQ paint. Working well for me. Also, you can coat it with high temp RTV but it looks like shiat.

Jun 6, 2006 | 07:04 PM

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bump for ya buddy

Jun 6, 2006 | 07:43 PM

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POR-15... best paint i have EVER used.

Jun 6, 2006 | 08:20 PM

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If it's stainless, you can weld it with stainless wire and won't rust. Otherwise it's just steel wire and rusts like all steel does. I used aluminized paint on mine and it never rusted but I'm in Cali..

Dan