? for the turbo guys

[Showdog75]

I've got a guy at work that wants me to do his aluminum plumbing on his 85 1/2 Mustang SVO. Does anyone ever expand the tubing to make socket welds[slip joint] instead of a butt welds ?

[sidthss]

I've only seen butt welds and I think butt welds look better, but a slip joint would work, as long as your not restricting the air flow.

[Showdog75]

He's got two pieces of silicon hose that he keeps having trouble with and I'm trying to get him to order a couple of V-band clamps then hard plumb everything. I wonder if the V-band clamps will give a little as to hopefully keep from breaking anything else. Thanks for the reply's.

[Fishy Jim]

Put a bead in the tubing where he keeps blowing the elbows. Or, you can weld a bead onto the end of the tubing if you don't have a bead roller. I've done a lot of those for the local kids. The kits they seem to pick up off ebay just have straight cut tubing and it doesn't hold the pressure.

[spotsineyes]

V-band clamps will not give. And I am sure you mean silicone, not silicon. Silicon is a glassy metallic element that looks like this in its pure form:

[On fire most of the time]

As nice as hard mounting everything looks, you need to have a coupler.

Try Fishy Jim's idea...a bead would help, it would give that clamp something to hold against.