I found someone (a custom exhaust shop) with the Bead Form tool locally and paid them to bead my pipes for me. $30 for like 8 beads (this was 1.5" tubing for a cooling re-route).
Larger diameter stuff, there is a Harbor Freight metal fabrication tool ~$100 on sale that will do them. It's a large version of the Bead Form. I think I stuffed a 2.75" pipe in there. It may take a 2.5" pipe but I'm not sure as I haven't tried that size in it yet. I've seen using epoxy to build up a bead as well as using a tailpipe expander to take a ring of pipe the same size you are beading and increase the ID so it will slip onto the pipe and then weld/epoxy that in place, too. --Ashraf _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
