cheap Mandrel bends

[YBSLO4]

Hey all,

As i work with a mandrel bender on a daily basis, i was talking to my boss the last day or two and was chatting about all our left over bends that we have lieing round and we thought bout just getting rid of them cheap to guys interested in them for like cooelr piping and exhaustt systems. Generally i get a lot of 3" alloy and steel, both perfect for cooler piping and definately steel for exhausts, of which i had my dump pipe made for about 30 bucks. We bend from 40mm tubing up to 4", but generally the most used is 3", 60mm and 50mm. 60mm alloy is perfect for R33/32 intercooler piping which is what i used on my car, 50mm for some like 180sx's coming off the turbo etc and 3" is good for the outlet side of the cooler going to throtttle body on say SR20's and so on or really good for GTR's and gtst's running larger turbos and what have you. I try and put aside as much of them as i can not to waste them, and at themoment i have about 15 odd 3" mandrel bends ranging from about 45, 60, 70, 75, 90 degree bends in steel, in alloy there is a handful or 3mm wall 3" 90 degree bends and a few in 4.75mm heavy gauge piping in 90's aswell. There's a couple of 60mm 90's and a heaps of 50's. On a weekly basis we usually have this many lieing round constantly rotating between sizeing depending on what i am bending at the time for different jobs. So if anyone is interested PM me if you have any size of what you need, i think he was saying about 15-20 bucks each or something which is damn cheap cos normally the bend itself is about that without material but these have a lot of material either side of bend which is good to cut and play with. Puting i thtis way sounds a lot better, for a 180sx with an SR20, i you could get a cull cat back exahaust in 3" made for about 100 bucks (without muffler)... it will cost more for the flanges to bolt up to the cat than the bend needed and piping to make the rest as they only really need one 60 odd degree bend in a good straight system. So let me know and i can fill you in on whats lieing round at the time so feel free to PM me.

This is not a profit thing, i am basically just trying tos top it all being wasted cos we get about 20% back of the material value when its recylcled which is a real waste, so if we can cover the material cost it will save us and the environment, cos it can't be totally recylced!!

[Guest RedLineGTR]

What area is the shop located interested in maybe some intercooler piping. Cheers Rob

[YBSLO4]

Um it's in knox, but i can bring the bends home easily. Guessing from when i did mine it will be 60mm piping on the turbo side to the cooler then will go up to bout 3" to the plenum from the cooler but not 100% sure. But let me know and ic an tell u if i got the bends.

[KamikazeR33]

if u wanna make it all up for us for fmic piping id be happy to buy it off ya

i have nfi how or what sort of welder to use

[Rowdyr32]

What thickness and the steel bends?

[YBSLO4]

All alloy is 3mm wall thickness and is 6003 T4 bending grade alloy (very exspensive shyte). Steel is 2mm mild steel, have some 3mm in 60mm piping but only two and too heavy to use i reckon. As for making up cooler piping i couldn't physically do it without the car being there to custom fit it cos then i would simply just be able to bend up a one piece pipe rather than have to cut and weld, is much neater and better flowing as there is no inside joins to interupt airflow.