Jan 18, 2015, 10:56 am · #1
hit a rock in my friends driveway yesterday. did a good bit of damage to the turbo outlet pipe. also dented the down pipe pretty good. 
big rock killed my exhaust
Jan 18, 2015, 11:40 am · #2
How do you fuck up that badly?
Jan 18, 2015, 5:35 pm · #3
Well there's stainless for you.
Good news is there's a Tig torch right there to fix it.
Try not to breathe while welding that.
Jan 18, 2015, 5:44 pm · #4
I am out of argon. cant weld it till I get a new bottle tomorrow. its when welding galvanized you don't want to breath it in. nothing given off when welding stainless.
Jan 18, 2015, 5:58 pm · #5
I wanna see a pic of the rock!
Jan 18, 2015, 6:16 pm · #6
Zinc will give you fever. I've welded a lot of it. Stainless has chrome in it - very bad.
Breathing none of it is good. But zinc is a mineral in your body. Chrome is a heavy metal poison.
https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA_FS-3647_Welding.pdf
Didn't mean to make the thread more of a downer than it already is. It's really not that much to weld, and the good thing is you have the equipment, which most don't.
Jan 18, 2015, 6:57 pm · #7
levels of are very low and i have ventilation. so its a non issue.
sorry no picture of the rock. lol
Jan 19, 2015, 3:47 pm · #8
i second the pics to this rock! pick up it up and put it on a shelf as a trophy or something, thats one strong bastard lol
Jan 19, 2015, 6:19 pm · #9
got argon today. all better now 
Jan 19, 2015, 7:59 pm · #10
Frankenpipe.
Jan 19, 2015, 8:08 pm · #11
yeah thats not to bad. lol . just one crack all the way around. I had a mild steel turbo mani on my ka-t that cracked several times. it ended up being more weld than pipe.
Jan 20, 2015, 2:14 am · #12
It would have buffed right out. No big deal. haha
Jan 20, 2015, 6:44 pm · #13
got it all back in today. took it for a test drive . no leaks. no traction at all with freezing road temps.