hey guys

i'm looking for ultra sharp pipe bends in steel or stainless. specifically a 2.5" bend. does anyone know where i can get something like that? most mandrel pipe bends have a long radius...i need something short for a tight fitting down pipe. short of having someone do pie cuts i'm not sure if there is anything available?

something similar to this aluminium bend from atp turbo but obviously not aluminium: http://www.atpturbo.com/mm5/merchant...egory_Code=PPB

 

check my thread 1 or 2 topics down. Let me know if thats what you looking for

 

saw that...those U pipes look like normal bends...looking to see if there is anything available even sharper/shorter radius.....

 

U bend is as tight as it gets- 180*, They are far from normal .These are sectioned out for what your looking for.

I purchase all that for the fact to cut apart and get "tight" radius

Segmenting these together creates the tight angles.

 

I think I will fab up some pie cuts to get the angle I need...

 

Every time I think about tight bends I think about this build I saw.

I am trying to accomplish something simmilar what you see here.

Is this what you consider Pie cuts?

 

Yes....those are pic cuts but it seems like a huge waste of time since none of those bends are really that tight where they couldn't use normal bends.

 

www.fabspeed.com

they do 1D full 180 degree bends

 

Definitelly not a waste of time. That entire build is all titanium so that was bascially the only option next to paying prob $100+ dollars per bend, thats if you can even find them

 

ahh cool....that would explain it....my bad....

 

1*D radius bends flow like crap, don't use them if you don't have to. I would equate them similiar in flow to a crush bend.

 

man if you can find titanium bends for 100 bucks you let me know cause you can easily spend 100 bucks a bend just on SS...

 

Have you looked into the donuts?

http://gelanz.com/xt500/oil%20tank/Donuts.pdf

 

Those donuts are pretty sweet, and expensive..

 

that might just work out perfectly.....where to order from?

 

hmm....just came across this that also might work out really well from SPA turbo USA:

http://www.designengineering.com/cat...-cast-downpipe

http://www.designengineering.com/fil...spa/090918.pdf

now i just gotta find out the dimensions of the turbo outlet of a garett t3/t04 57-trim stg3 .63a/r to see if it will line up.....

 

SPD donuts in Steel or Stainless

 

Considering you usually only need one tight bend on a project, they definitely are worth the money.

non-VTEC, dunno where to get them from, but I've held a few in my hands so they're def available!

 

chassis shop . com sells donuts

 

Woolf Aircraft has bends where the CLR is the same as the diameter.