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Sand is a pain in the ass you will never get a nice bend will still flatten out a little and you will struggle to get more then 35 degrees with out pipe damage. Buy round donuts can get any angle you want then or a proper bender one that rolles the pipe not crushes and hope it turns out for the best im not trying to be a rude basted I'm just telling you my experiences

Hey Blake what I the best way to cut them donuts up ?

Pedestal jig saw or something like that ?

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Bought a TIG, a tube folder (wanna be bender) going to build a roll cage.

Have a go, I love it........

44mm tube is cheap at bunnings, can use galvanized fencing, it's thinner and lighter than the stuff in the steel isle.

If you want to have a go I have a proper mandrel bender your welcome to try.

hi risking i was in fact going to go for cdw 44mm tube

i have had a lift tig for a while now

and my mate has always bugged me to make a cage for him its a ae86 with no more that 140kw that he uses for drifting ( no cams )

i am aware that the ( tube folder i have ) is TERRIBLE. but there was only 1 way to find out there terrible and that was to give it a go.

I'm now going to go with get brown Davis to make me the main hoop and i will build from there

Hmm and for the pun about me going to do it with gal..

I don't think anyone on this part of the forum would be that stupid

that is a stupid insult

and thanks heaps for the advise BSA you are right on the dollar

anything over 35o is somewhat unachievable 2011-11-15190505.jpg

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I usually use I angle grinder with a alloy cutting disk or just a 1 mm cutting disk then tig a bead on the end. It can be hard to cut straight but just takes practice can always grind it straight. A chain cuter would be the best I think only done it a few times but makes life so easy. I'll be doing my cooler piping properly soon using stainless because it's more available to me not worried about weight

yeah i got a drop saw for doing the cuts. works out a treat

making a jig up atm so i can doe more drift pipes for mates

i really want to do more inter cooler piping though

iv already done everything for my cars and for a couple of mates

played with alloy abit more last night

i need to get better with it. 2nd time playing with alloy and i made this..... its pretty lol :P

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Can't use a drop saw to cut donuts works on everything else but. A side note make sure you have a dedicated disk to stainless and alloy don't cut mild steel then cut alloy or stainless with the same disk it will contaminate the metal then rust or be a bitch to weld

I usually have them all seprate on diff hooks saves a world of trouble. I have a perfect example I was making a forward facing plenum for my 20 and I cut it out using a 1 mm disk acidently put one I used for steel then when I went to weld it had all sorts of trouble with inclusions had to back grind everything wasn't happy tho so I tossed it. Now all disks are kept separate and tidy. Also you may find it easier to weld alloy of you wipe it down with thinners, cleans the surface much better

More Practice :)

All the mates are Rapped Sept for the one that now has a defect

so it turns out i have one set of pipes spare :P

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Tomorrow going to make in intake for my turbo builder Then onto making piping for the 180sx :)

do they have baffles inside or are they just straight pipe?

they look good, only thing I can thing of, purely from a performance perspective is to not have such a sharp angle where it splits into 2 pipes, but really not going to affect anything unless you have heap and heaps of power

Yeah mate Sure could do them in 3 1/2 or 4 inch in i reckon if you got a 4 inch zorst you should go for 2x 3.5 inch outlet 4 inch inlet

heres the pic of the inside aswell

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Thats the last one i made

Now hopefully can do on doing other things :)

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