Stebro [was: 4kq Exhaust time]
Huw Powell
human747 at attbi.com
Tue Mar 26 01:04:49 EST 2002
> > Before everyone starts pulling out their welders, one question:
> > How are you going to mandrel-bend everything to minimize cross-sectional
> > area reduction in the bends? Without doing this, you will lose a lot
> > of cross-sectional area, esp. if you do some serious bends.
>
> you build the system piece by piece. places like Burns Stainless sell
> mandrell bent "U" bends which you can cut and weld in place whenever you need
> to make a bend. the result is a perfectly smooth internal wall for the
> exhaust gasses to flow through.
Like this:
http://www.humanspeakers.com/cgi-bin/humanspeakers/audi_img.pl?image=exhaust3-bends.jpg&desc=
or even this sort of fun:
http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/exhaust6.htm
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Huw Powell
http://www.humanspeakers.com/
http://www.humanthoughts.org/
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