1st time watching one of your vids. Instantly subscribed. Great teaching, skills and content delivery. Well done sir.

Just tuned in for the first time. Nicely done!

You did a really good job explaining this. Also how to use them. Thumbs up. Thanks for the tips

GREAT VIDEO !! SO GLAD I WATCHED YOUR VIDEO PRIOR TO TAKING MY CORVETTE TO THE MUFFLER SHOP TO INSTALL V BANDS !! THANKS AGAIN JESSE VIA LAS VEGAS

Just picked up my first Honda and have never heard of vband exhaust clamps till now. Thank you so much! Instantly subscribed

Credits to your for the presentation and explenation of this particular product. I just started using those babies on my exhaust and let me tell you, if well installed the advantages of them is endless. Again, tons of credits to you and Happy Thnaks giving to you and family.

Such great quality video.

Well you just sold 6 more for them. Thanks for your input brother. Just ordered 6. Well done tech tip video too.

Thank you for your video

This is very informative. Aluminium is good for welding stainless to prevent arcs through and creating rust spots. Backstep welding can prevent distortion but looks bad if your not a confident welder.

Thank you for this! Looking to get some exhaust work done on my two Foxes

10:56 while this is great information, it’s over kill. Warping is not hard to avoid with these. Typically if you just keep it clamped together while welding, the other side will act as a heat sink and keep the flange true. I regularly use this method and have never had a warp. I have even corrected warps by assembling it while it is still hot from welding when I forgot to attach the clamp

From what I've read, even with mild gaps/warpage, operating temperature heat should fill small gaps and make them seal pretty good.

SOME GOOD INFO BRO 👌🏿 👍 👏🏿

What settings were you running on your tig for welding on the v bands?

Awesome

Good video ! Your header flange has been OVERWELDED, causing the warpage ! I have used the ISPEEDY brand with good success.

I installed 2 and 1 is leaking. Im about to throw some red rtv between the flanges and hope it seals. Still better than the band clamp style

Hello RD: *Thanks so much for the video.* Two questions (1) Just to be sure, in this vid you INSERTED the pipe into the flange; that is to say, you had a flange with an I.D. that was perfect fit to O.D. of the pipe? And (2), the Evil Energy link takes us to an Amazon page that says that the flanges are stainless...does Evil Energy sell mild/regular steel flanges?

Question, could you have a spare v flange and v clamp that you could attach to the one you're welding to keep it from warping? (maybe a modified clamp that gives more room for your torch...) Or would there be no room to do the weld with the clamp in place?

How’d you make the groove in your aluminum block? That’s a good idea. I’d make a block with a groove and also the opposite

can you weld and get minimal warpage if you just weld the vband with it clamped to the piece while welding? And do you know where I can source an aluminum block to use for a heat sink for cheap

Just a small correction, magnets may *indicate* it's a 304 or 316 Stainless Steel, but if it's a 200 (like 201) grade, then it will attract the magnet either way, but still will count as stainless steel. So magnets are not a very good way to determine if the SS or not. So the bolts may bet a 201 stainless

Thanks for instruction. See you follow Kyle Voss👍

I installed ssome of thes eon my header collectors for my 5.3L LS. Problem I have is that one of the flanges didnt line up 100% with the other and it vibrates like crazy and makes a buzzing noise. So before you weld make sure that everything is tight and where you abssolutely want it.

hi RD, is it possible to use rtv high temp silicone or put gasket if leaking ?

What size exhaust did you use thanks

Do you have to weld these ones? Or are they going to be a better option then many stock vband clamps even without welding?

So the exhaust pipe goes into the v band when u weld it together? So If I have 2.5" exhaust pipes on my vehicle what size v band do I need 2.5" as well?? Especially if it needs to go into the band?

Tig set up would have been good. I really wasn't convinced between the two bands. Not a hugh night and day difference. Showing how you held the header on top of the aluminum block, would sure help.

Hey I have a semi but it’s basically the same principle. I replaced my charge air cooler because it was leaking and I had to take off the vband clamp on the elbow connecting the turbo with the exhaust pipe going to the charge air cooler . After I changed my cooler the boost leak was reduced I put vband clamp back on, but I found I was still loosing a bit of boost. Now I find out I have a vband clamp leak but it’s not the clamp because I’ve took it out put it back on multiple times so Is the turbo flanges not sealing quite well possibly due to warping but most likely from the crud that’s been there for all these years . Is there a high temp gasket of some kind I can put in between the flanges because other than that I have to find a machine shop that will work on flared flanges

Where did you get that v band hear sink? I like the clamp evil energy uses. I just wish their flanges had a machines grove to fit over the tubes a bit.

I weld mine on as a complete assy with the other side of the vband and the clamp on tight. It acts as a heat sink and warps much less..

What amperage are you welding at, looks way too hot

Ive always welded V bands clamped together. I haven't had any issues yet with this method.

drill & tap some through holes in your heatsink & run some coolant through as your welding !

So do the clamps need to be a complete closed circle? Or just tight?

Can these be MIG welded with solid core wire with gas?

Can you do a vid with no heat sync ? Just to compare

Do you have to use a gasket with v band

Subscribing just cause of that welding music. For once it's not trying to dubstep me out of my brain.

You have to clamp vband together tightly, then weld it. It should prevent it from warping.

Do they make then 5 inch

who was getting murdered at the end xD

Clamp both halves together tightly as a complete unit then weld it.

Or the side of a chopsaw blade

Serious question, at this point why not just weld exhaust together? This seems like a lot of extra effort and expense to have even minor exhaust leaks.

I tan across this video looking for guys cutting their own vbands on a bench lathes. Your vbands are warping be cuase your welding technique. Seeing you weld and your technique, you are syncing to much heat in. You want to have a cleaner, sharper tungsten and keep a much tighter more controlled arc and you will be able to not only have a better heat controll but can weld much faster wich will reduce heat signature. I have welded a ton of v bands and only use a heat sync on the ones I'm welding to schedual pipe some I will do multiple pass and full penatration joint. I would think now 2 years later you have probably improved

Anyone interested in how to weld a vband. Single pass all the way around will keep it from warping. Stitch welding is not how you weld tubing.

I have had my vband on my car for a few days. And here it is fucking leaking. I don't have time for this 😂 it became warped while running.

You're putting way way touch heat into the part. Use smaller filler wire and shorten your arc length

Good video but hard to watch.. Your way to fidgety. Lol

sir...those are 2x6s. not 1by's

Just clamp both halfs of the flange together and the don't move

WHO'S YOUR DADDY? EVIL ENERGY SIR! STOP SELLING MAN!!!

What a bad name for V Band

I am sorry man, you should not be teaching welding. Your weld is 3 times too big for the thickness of metal. The weld wonders all over the place and your tungston is contaminated. Watch some real welders and keep practicing. the weld should not be bigger than the thickness of metal.