Re: Mandrel Bent Exhausts

[Julian]

Yeh so most exhaust places do it that way. I heard you should find a place which has mandrel bender on site so i assume they bend the pipe as they need it? Is that right or is every mandrel bent exhaust made up of separate pieces of mandrel bends and straight pipe? I don't know, i was wondering if say an exhaust which you made with separate mandrel bends was going to be similar to the way an exhaust shop made it (assuming you can do a decent job welding and lining it up) - Julian Jon Ovington wrote:  Mandrel bends are bought as seperate parts and welded together, thus the reason for making sure you know what bends and how many you need. Jon -------------------------------------------------------  DatNet  - Online Datsun Resource  Website: http://www.datnet.org  Jon Ovington - [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Matt Spiteri - [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ----- Original Message ----- From: Julian To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 6:56 PM Subject: Re: Mandrel Bent Exhausts  So do you mandrel bend a straight pipe at your work or weld up different bends to straight pieces of pipe? - Julian Davidson wrote: Daniel, we can supply u with bends if u need them.  We have 20,30,45,90 (few others aswell) stainless 3" bends in stock.  There not too expenisive at all i dont think.  Your going to have to get the system spot on otherwise u will scrape the crap out of it!!  I wouldnt attempt it unless i had all the equipment needed tho.  Have u done much welding? Do u have access to a hoist? Do u have a bench saw? Linisher? Stands? Another thing with mandrel systems, you never really know what degree of bend u need until your up to that point so its hard to say exactly how many bends of what kind u need. Its alot harder than press bend systems! The Walker cat is ok i guess but NO muffler? That will be damn loud i tell ya! I would put a small muffler in just to keep it down a bit.  I can understand why u would want to do it yourself, we charge around the $1100 to $1700 mark for full 3" stainless systems!! Nearly the cost of the Z18et itself!!! Hope this helps u. ScottDavo -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Kroehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, 28 December, 2000 16:50 Subject: Mandrel Bent Exhausts  List, I'm looking at the possibility of making my own 3 inch mandrel bent exhaust when I drop in my Z18et.   I plan to use only a 3 inch hi flow Walker cat and no muffler.  I know that the whole exhaust is welded together rather than press bent and fitted but do I buy the pipe and get it bent myself (which seems that it would just be the same as a press bent exhaust) or can I buy pre bent 3 inch pipe sections?  Any tips on building my exhaust system? 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