Preventing Rust when Welding Exhaust components???
06-05-2006, 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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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...
Thanks
Steven
06-06-2006, 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
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