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Yeah, no need to weld. If you had the opportunity to weld it, and it was at no cost to you... simply "something to do" then it wouldn't hurt, but the clamp does it's job quite well. The pipes generally overlap one another anyway, so with the clamp pinching them down there will be no leakage of exhaust.