My friend bought an aluminum intake (Polished look) off of Ebay and he wants to get a flange welded onto it for his Tial wastegate. However, the aluminum looks really, really thin. Is it possible to get an aluminum flange welded onto it or is it too thin to weld to?

 

It's not too thin provided that the person welding it has a modicum of welding ability. I'm more curious as to why he'd be welding the wastegate to the intake pipe but we'll leave that one for another day.

 

Stupid me, I meant blow off valve

I measured the metal and it's a little more than 1/16th inch

 

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1/16" (0.063") is no problem. &lt;0.050" for me gets hard.

 

coke cans is where is gets hard

 

yeah I saw pics of two beer cans welded together, and also real clean beads strait down tin foil... thats just crazy.

seems like its all a matter of skill level...

 

To a point. When you just touch the pedal at the lowest current setting and blow a hole through your work, that's not you. I've heard stories about welding coke cans together by putting them in water to keep them cool, with only the part you're welding sticking out. I call that cheating. Or having the pulser effectively lower the duty cycle down to nothing. I think when someone shows off their welded-together cans the assumption is they did it all themselves with no "support."