Re: New pipe fittings for manifolds
 

this sounds good. any chance of doing 2" pipe with the same process? i have some 3000gt o2 housings to make and the tight bends would be nice. i have been trying to buy a donut and nobody will take my money

Re: New pipe fittings for manifolds
 

will the normal tight radius elbows not work?

Re: New pipe fittings for manifolds
 

Stock o2 housing replacements? They need to be bigger then 2" ID. Most o2 housing replacements are 2.5" for that car. Why do you need such tight bends?

Re: New pipe fittings for manifolds
 

Just waiting for feedback. We built a couple interesting manifolds from the stuff this past week ourselves.

Re: New pipe fittings for manifolds
 

Here's an example of a manifold that cannot be made with anything but these fittings unless its made log style. 5 cylinder hell. And no it doesnt touch, but its damn close.

http://mandrel-bends.com/fittings/holy-hell.jpg

Re: New pipe fittings for manifolds
 

Cool- volvo 20 valve 5 cylinder. I have one of those on the go actually... ;D

I'm not working on anything that needs 1.25", I'd end up re-working my jigs for it if you end up selling it, but as it is I'm not sure i have much work I could use to "sample" it...

Re: New pipe fittings for manifolds
 

for some reason they want to have an open dump wastegate. that will eliminate a lot of the flow requirements and these will be made for turbos that use the stock turbine housing so there is no way they can make enough power to find the limits of 2" tubing. once the donut thing fell through with multiple companies, i lost interest. then i saw this post and it got me thinking about it again. im sure i could just order the fittings from ace or something, but i have gone to racing solutions for all of my pipe needs. figured i would keep it that way if i could

Re: New pipe fittings for manifolds
 

any eta's on a honda ram horn style kit? sounds very lucrative.

Re: New pipe fittings for manifolds
 

Ah.. JPDC made a product like that way back in the day that we manufactured for them (for that vehicle). They CNC'd the flange so the outlet for the wastegate had an independent discharge from the exhaust stream. On the reverse side of the flange they machined a lip that sat into the turbine housing and seperated the chamber. I believe those were 2.25" outlet and 2" dump though. There is far more room there then it seems. You could do it with just standard radius 2" od x 3" radius no problem. We still build tons of 3000GT parts we developed ... damn near 5 years ago now.

Re: New pipe fittings for manifolds
 

I could pursue this better if I knew what exactly people wanted in a kit.