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Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: FASTBACK340] #1728416 01/14/15 11:15 PM 01/14/15 11:15 PM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y. FASTBACK340 super stock
FASTBACK340 super stock Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y.	We did everything exhaust-related on this Corvette road racer. Our exhaust guy did R&D work for Kooks. Here you can see the V clamp is off on the drivers side engine pipe. The inner sleeve slides into the other pipe and the vertical lip is clamped. Nice & tight! `68 Barracuda 340-S

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: FASTBACK340] #1728417 01/15/15 02:17 AM 01/15/15 02:17 AM
Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,106 Northeast V VincentVega super stock
VincentVega super stock V Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,106 Northeast	my 2.7 V6 has those V clamps off the manifolds. Along with a bell and socket kind of connection. I love those things. easy on, easy off. good seal. Goodbye gaskets and frozen bolts Looking for 1975 through 1978 B body 4 door sedan sheet metal or parts cars - monaco, fury, coronet. Please let me know

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: FASTBACK340] #1728418 01/15/15 02:28 AM 01/15/15 02:28 AM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,409 Highland, MI. Sunroofcuda master
Sunroofcuda master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,409 Highland, MI.	Quote: We did everything exhaust-related on this Corvette road racer. Our exhaust guy did R&D work for Kooks. Here you can see the V clamp is off on the drivers side engine pipe. The inner sleeve slides into the other pipe and the vertical lip is clamped. Nice & tight! Uh-oh - I see welds! He wants NO welds - a seamless system. It's going to be next to impossible to find a shop that can do all he wants. I know many places that have CNC mandrel benders. One approach would be to have a muffler shop fab a system using compression bends, then remove the system & get the pipes to an industrial tubing fabricator that can roam them, & then program a CNC bender to spit the pipes out. They can be made out of Aluminized steel, 409, 304, etc. No Man With A Good Car Needs To Be Justified

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: Sunroofcuda] #1728419 01/15/15 09:03 AM 01/15/15 09:03 AM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y. FASTBACK340 super stock
FASTBACK340 super stock Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y.	I'll post pictures of the polished, seamless, fully welded system we just did for an LS3 swapped into a '65 Vette. I posted the above pictures because they were handy. BTW: Our exhaust shop has a MOUNTAIN of Flowmasters as a Dynomax selling point! `68 Barracuda 340-S

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: FASTBACK340] #1728420 01/15/15 11:27 AM 01/15/15 11:27 AM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y. FASTBACK340 super stock
FASTBACK340 super stock Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y.	These are the pipes.... `68 Barracuda 340-S

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: FASTBACK340] #1728421 01/15/15 01:17 PM 01/15/15 01:17 PM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y. FASTBACK340 super stock
FASTBACK340 super stock Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y.	`68 Barracuda 340-S

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: FASTBACK340] #1728422 01/15/15 03:48 PM 01/15/15 03:48 PM
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 8,911 Ontario, Canada S Stanton Don't question me!
Stanton Don't question me! S Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 8,911 Ontario, Canada	So even though the tubing is mandrel bent, its welded together in sections. To my point - it would be a real time-consuming PITA to make a one-piece system !!

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: Stanton] #1728423 01/15/15 07:55 PM 01/15/15 07:55 PM
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mikemee1331 master M Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 4,154 bethlehem pa	for the clueless among us, is this the V-clamp you are talking about? do you weld the 'sleeve' in place? 8397540-images.jpg (134 downloads)

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: mikemee1331] #1728424 01/15/15 08:13 PM 01/15/15 08:13 PM
Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,106 Northeast V VincentVega super stock
VincentVega super stock V Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,106 Northeast	since he hasn't posted in a few days, I'm starting to wonder if this was a chain-yank Looking for 1975 through 1978 B body 4 door sedan sheet metal or parts cars - monaco, fury, coronet. Please let me know

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: VincentVega] #1728425 01/15/15 08:22 PM 01/15/15 08:22 PM
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 3,124 N.W. Florida F Fat_Mike master
Fat_Mike master F Joined: May 2003 Posts: 3,124 N.W. Florida	I presume either he's following up on some of the leads above, or he found out that what he envisioned isn't reasonably achievable. BTW Fastback340, nice work!

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: Fat_Mike] #1728426 01/15/15 09:37 PM 01/15/15 09:37 PM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y. FASTBACK340 super stock
FASTBACK340 super stock Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y.	Quote: I presume either he's following up on some of the leads above, or he found out that what he envisioned isn't reasonably achievable. BTW Fastback340, nice work! Can't take credit for the pipe work, that's our boy Red. He does do nice work. And yes, those are the V clamps I mentioned. One end has a sleeve that fits into the other. Weld these on your pipes and you can assemble & disassemble repeatedly without leaks or alignment issues. Neat stuff! `68 Barracuda 340-S

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: FASTBACK340] #1728427 01/16/15 07:09 PM 01/16/15 07:09 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,409 Highland, MI. Sunroofcuda master
Sunroofcuda master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,409 Highland, MI.	Quote: Quote: I presume either he's following up on some of the leads above, or he found out that what he envisioned isn't reasonably achievable. BTW Fastback340, nice work! Can't take credit for the pipe work, that's our boy Red. He does do nice work. And yes, those are the V clamps I mentioned. One end has a sleeve that fits into the other. Weld these on your pipes and you can assemble & disassemble repeatedly without leaks or alignment issues. Neat stuff! Fastback, aren't you running MY mufflers on your B-Fish? Also, you can simply flare the pipe ends & join them together with a V-Band - there are many configurations of V-Band clamps with varying widths of the "trench" in the V-Band insert. You don't necessarily need to weld on turbo repair flares. And also NICE WORK on the pipes! No Man With A Good Car Needs To Be Justified

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: Sunroofcuda] #1728428 01/16/15 07:12 PM 01/16/15 07:12 PM
Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,106 Northeast V VincentVega super stock
VincentVega super stock V Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,106 Northeast	I like a swaged fit (slip joint) with those long compression band clamps. Sure makes it a lot easier to get apart later, too Looking for 1975 through 1978 B body 4 door sedan sheet metal or parts cars - monaco, fury, coronet. Please let me know

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: VincentVega] #1728429 01/16/15 07:31 PM 01/16/15 07:31 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,409 Highland, MI. Sunroofcuda master
Sunroofcuda master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,409 Highland, MI.	Quote: I like a swaged fit (slip joint) with those long compression band clamps. Sure makes it a lot easier to get apart later, too You are talking TorcTites aren't you? No Man With A Good Car Needs To Be Justified

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: Sunroofcuda] #1728430 01/16/15 07:38 PM 01/16/15 07:38 PM
Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,106 Northeast V VincentVega super stock
VincentVega super stock V Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,106 Northeast	Quote: Quote: I like a swaged fit (slip joint) with those long compression band clamps. Sure makes it a lot easier to get apart later, too You are talking TorcTites aren't you? Yes! never knew the name (or brand name, at least). sure probably would make me sound a lot more intelligent if I had known it or not. probably would take a lot more than that to make me sound smart Looking for 1975 through 1978 B body 4 door sedan sheet metal or parts cars - monaco, fury, coronet. Please let me know

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: VincentVega] #1728431 01/16/15 07:50 PM 01/16/15 07:50 PM
Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 1,520 West Palm Beach, Florida Copper Dart pro stock
Copper Dart pro stock Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 1,520 West Palm Beach, Florida	South Florida shop did my 3" mandrel bent custom stainless system. $1,300+ 8398531-image.jpg (138 downloads) Common sense, the least common of all the senses. Mom. For fear of ridicule, society stifles creativity. Ricky Valdes

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: VincentVega] #1728432 01/16/15 08:29 PM 01/16/15 08:29 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,409 Highland, MI. Sunroofcuda master
Sunroofcuda master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,409 Highland, MI.	Quote: Quote: Quote: I like a swaged fit (slip joint) with those long compression band clamps. Sure makes it a lot easier to get apart later, too You are talking TorcTites aren't you? Yes! never knew the name (or brand name, at least). sure probably would make me sound a lot more intelligent if I had known it or not. probably would take a lot more than that to make me sound smart Made right here in Michigan too! I love made in USA or Canada stuff. No Man With A Good Car Needs To Be Justified

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: Sunroofcuda] #1728433 01/16/15 08:30 PM 01/16/15 08:30 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,409 Highland, MI. Sunroofcuda master
Sunroofcuda master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,409 Highland, MI.	Fastback - is this your car? https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PdW5Vy1Dtv4 No Man With A Good Car Needs To Be Justified

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: Sunroofcuda] #1728434 01/16/15 09:23 PM 01/16/15 09:23 PM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y. FASTBACK340 super stock
FASTBACK340 super stock Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y.	Quote: Fastback, aren't you running MY mufflers on your B-Fish? .......And also NICE WORK on the pipes! Yes, I'm running your Powersticks and I love 'em! You wouldn't believe how many compliments I get on how my car sounds. And this spring when I get the car out of storage I'm V banding my system too. I hate those damn slip-joints! `68 Barracuda 340-S

Re: Mandrel Exhaust Bender [Re: Sunroofcuda] #1728435 01/16/15 09:24 PM 01/16/15 09:24 PM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y. FASTBACK340 super stock
FASTBACK340 super stock Joined: May 2007 Posts: 952 Queens, N. Y.	Quote: Fastback - is this your car? https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PdW5Vy1Dtv4 Yup. That's my Mistress! `68 Barracuda 340-S

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