some badass whitey bends
 

http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1123419&page=1
EDIT: I didn't do this myself... just showing that whitey bends have been catching on 8)

http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg

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by the time u complete that bend u can weld together ur entire piping and exhaust :-\

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the way it angled, he could have use a 90 degree and be done ::)

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Yeah but how else are you going to get that type of bend that isn't manufactured?

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wow :-*

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wow, that is amazing

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This are really nice. No company produces 90 degree bends with that small of a radius. Those are worth it IMO.

nate

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damn.. thats some sweet welding.. and does the piping get smaller as it goes through the bend? it kinda looks like it in the pics. ???

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wow nice work. very clean welds. how long did it take u 2 do that

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It was done by a shop.

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must of cost a grip

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HMT ideas are being stolen by the man.

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Damn, I should go make a Whitey bend with my 110 Mig to compare. :-X That would be one horrible mess of a cluster ----. :-\
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damn thats a nice bend 8)

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waste of time i think

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haha

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are you kidding or ------- retarded?
those bends are nothing new; i remember playing with pipe in my grandpa's back yard 15 years ago that he had welded like that

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so you were playing with a pipe at 15 years old? what are you half retarded??

nice welding, but I think you would get a mandrel bent 90 that would do the trick.

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bahaha, playing with pipe... haha... :D :P

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I am niether kidding or ------- retarted... I was just showing people a link that I found interesting. Some members of this board use this method and those bends are an example of how good they can look. And you're a douchebag.

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Yes, this is by far, not a new method of doing things. In fact, is has been around since before you could buy a forged or bent elbow. Pick up an old pipefitting handbook and they will show how to do things like this. It's OLD technology, not new. I don't think you can get an elbow that will turn that sharp on that size of pipe, but you may find a donut that will.

I know some of you may not agree, but when I see these pics, I see some good fabrication that is NOT suported with good welding. Those welds are way too narrow to have achieved full penetration. It is just a matter of time till it cracks open.

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yeah, I was wondering how he got them that skinny. but then again, those welds are alot better then the original whitey welds, lol ;)

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Bah, everybody is a critic. I've done some shady ass welding with a 110 gasless mig that is still holding up to this day.
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Say what you want about the original whitey welds, yeah they may not be pretty but they held up on a 16 gauge manifold on a Taurus that went through hellish car beatings for 2 and a half years and never had a weld broke. Again, its not a fashion show but I know your not serious cause man, don't make me pull out pics of your car. ;)

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i'm betting the primary reason that those welds were done like that with little or no filler was for the eye candy effect.

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its not a home made job, you can buy them and they are done buy machines, you can see his welds on either end on the bend. ::)

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The fact that you welded something and it hasn't broken has no bearing on this part here. To say that you welded something that was ugly and held up doesn't mean that every ugly weld will never fail.

Sure, many people are critics, but I speak from experience: 19 years as a journeyman pipe welder, and I'm an AWS certified welding inspector. You would probably be amazed at what I can tell about how something was welded just by looking at the finished product.

Those welds are way to narrow to have gotten good penetration. Not only that, but this area will see high heat and a lot of heat cycling.
Maybe...but there's better ways to get a pretty weld without sacrificing quality.
Guess again bro...it's most likely that all the welds in the middle were done in a vise where he could roll the part, and the end welds were done in the car or something more uncomfortable. I doubt this guy has a machine that can make a weld in middle of a turn like that. In fact, the tubing manufacturers specifically make elbows with long tangents, just for the reason hav having enough straight area on the sides of the weld joint for the machine to clamp on to. It's similar to how benders work, in that they have to have so much straight area between bends...the machine welders have to have so much straight area to hold on to for making the welds. This weld below was done by a machine.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/engloi...s/orbital1.JPG

The welds below were done by hand:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/engloid/gatepipe1.jpg

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looks good to meeee

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Obviously you know more about it than I do, but I'm just stating my experience. I've welded plenty of downpipes with my pile of ---- 100 flux mig with no problems. Yeah, it looks like hell and probably didn't penetrate very well with those butt ass cold welds, but they are still holding ::knocks on wood::


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I read over my post again, and I think I did come across a bit harsh. Hope you didn't take offense.

As I said though, the fab work is great. In the worlds of fab work and welding, there's some people that are good at one and some good at the other. It may just be that this guy hasn't gotten a lot of experience and is picking up on the fab a bit quicker than the welding.

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No offense taken. ;) I can appreciate an experienced/knowledgable opinion. After using the Miller welder at my friends shop I don't ever want to weld with my flux welder again. I thought I was a shitty welder because all of my welds with the flux look like ass, but I'm really not that bad with a good welder. :-\
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Welding can be compared to autocross racing, where driver skill is very imortant, but if you're driving a stock Chevette, you're going to lose no matter how good a driver you are.

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All that welding on that pipe was a waste of time and shows the shops lack of material sourcing.
They could and should have bought some exhaust DONUTS from HERE
They are made for impossible tight areas. Been using them in the Mustang community for years (Covell has been manufacturing them and other metal fab stuff since before most of you were born :P )

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Woah! :o

http://www.covell.biz/images/Donuts.jpg

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Re:some badass whitey bends
 

yea nice work i would have done it the same way just so i could tell people i made it myself :P

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those are bad ass. :o

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yea i have seen those donuts before to.. probably would have been ALOT easier haha..

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nice link to the donuts, Alex in Houston.
i had read about them but never seen 'em.
gets me thnking that i really gotta learn to weld.
it doesn't look all that hard to do....
but i imagine it's tough to master.

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you can't compare those to whitey stylez y0, the welds are too "machine welded" looking. We need to big ol' fat ARC welding style y0

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yeah we need the gerthy welds. Those exhaust donuts are hella expensive... i would have just sat down and whitey bended that ----...