has anyone ever just welded on their dumptube straight to the wastegate. my bolts backed out when i was night racing and i lost the dumtube. then i guess the heat from the exhaust melted my radiator shroud. so instead of waiting for a new flange i was thinking of just welding a pipe right on the wastegate, has anyone done this?
tial 40mm, steel or aluminum

 

why would you weld it to the WG ? why not just get/make a new flange/dumpipe ?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by torr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">has anyone ever just welded on their dumptube straight to the wastegate. my bolts backed out when i was night racing and i lost the dumtube. then i guess the heat from the exhaust melted my radiator shroud. so instead of waiting for a new flange i was thinking of just welding a pipe right on the wastegate, has anyone done this?
tial 40mm, steel or aluminum</TD></TR></TABLE>

Same thing happened to me, while I was at an HPDE. I burned a hole in one of my A/C lines.

I would get a new flange. But I don't see why you couldn't weld one on.

 

what happens when/if you need to replace wastegate and you want to reuse dumptube.. i have problem with manifold bolts backing out.. besides using new lockwashers everytime, i double check that its tight on there 50 miles after driving, then couple more times again in the next few hundred miles.. then it stays

 

well the reason i just don't get a new flange is because then i have to wait for one which we all know takes about 5-10 days. plus the bolts snapped off so there's 2 bolts that are still in the wastegate part of the flange.
oh, well just wondering if anyone's done it. i'll probably end up doing it anyways. do it, do it.

 

i've come to the conclusion, simple idea. i'm gonna fabricate a heat sheild.