Any Bay Area People want to pich in on a Pipe bender

[Guest 70240z]

I'm thinking of getting one to tube out the front end of my 240Z and Cage the inside of the car but the price is a little bit high for me at the moment so I'm looking for Any Bay Area People who might want to pich in on a Pipe bender

 

Right now I'm looking at getting the Model 4 Bender. from

 

http://www.jd2.com/

 

If anyone is interested email me and we'll talk more on the details..

 

--Note: I have a 3300 square foot shop full of air/ tools and a mig welder Hint Hint

 

Kyle

[johnc]

Do like I do, use 3/4" conduit to build your tubular structures with the outside of the conduit forming the outside bends and forms of the structure. Take the conduit templates to a place that has a good mandrel bender and have them bend the real tubes for you.

 

Saves a lot of time (re-work) and a lot of money in the short term.

[Guest Bamm Bamm]

As far as I know there isn't any shops in the bay area with a mandrel bender, unfortunately.. If I'm wrong let me know because I'll have a ton of exhaust work for them to do..

[johnc]

Just did a complete (from exhaust manifold flanges back) 3" exhaust for a 1994 325is. Used a custom 2 into 1 merge collector, tubing, u-bends, clamps, etc. from these folks:

 

Specialty Products Design

11252 Sunco Dr.

Rancho Cordova, CA 95742

916.635.8108

 

Very happy with their service and products.

 

25 hours of my labor and about $450 worth of SPD parts turned out a really bitchin' exhaust. Its loud (Borla XR-1 Raceline muffler) but the BMW is a STX autocross and BMW CCA race car.

[ToplessZ]

I was thinking something like this would be fairly easy to fabricate

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2560264053&category=633

Probably even plans out there as I did see a nice bender for sale that someone had fabbed on their own.

[Trevor]

How ambitious are ye?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2560495128&category=11774

http://www.blindchickenracing.com/Tools/Tube%20Bender/Tubingbender.htm

[ToplessZ]

any more pics or info in the bender or similar from the blindchicken site? thanks