What's the tightest.....

[Antshiel]

a 90 degree bend can be made with 70mm ss tubing?
I got a mahoosive intercooler thats been sat in the garage now for 12 months and it's time to get it fitted.
I know it will be tighter if its cut and welded but can anyone here do that??






ps: doesn't have to be stainless, anything that would suffice for intercooler piping.

[shirlster]

a 90 degree bend can be made with 70mm ss tubing?
I got a mahoosive intercooler thats been sat in the garage now for 12 months and it's time to get it fitted.
I know it will be tighter if its cut and welded but can anyone here do that??






ps: doesn't have to be stainless, anything that would suffice for intercooler piping.

you can buy a short radius s/s bend in 70mm.otherwise its a case of cutting and welding several times to get the bend right or cut at 45 degrees and weld together.all depends on how tight you want the radius of the bend.

[Gamedawn]

The tightest bend radius commonly available will be 1D - don't worry, I'll explain. The bend radius of a tube is measured at the centreline of the tube and the tightest you can normally bend is so that the centreline radius of the bend is equal to the tube diameter. Having said that 1D bending is not the sort of thing you do at home (unless you have £200k worth of machine and tooling in your garage). You should be able to buy something like that without too much trouble though - try custom exhaust manufacturers.

[POPEYE]

a 90 degree bend can be made with 70mm ss tubing?
I got a mahoosive intercooler thats been sat in the garage now for 12 months and it's time to get it fitted.
I know it will be tighter if its cut and welded but can anyone here do that??






ps: doesn't have to be stainless, anything that would suffice for intercooler piping.

Give "Webbo" a pm mate, he supply'd all my 3" s/s tube and bends

[an1mal_69]

I plumbed an RS500 intercooler into my mk5 cabby.

Join straights with good a quality 90' piece of silicon hose (samco/roose). Use mikalor hose clamps an it'll be as good as one piece. There will be slight turbulence within the pipe due to the connections, but in a diesel engine running around 10psi it makes no difference

[Webbo]

If you get no joy, give me o/d i/d ect, I'm sure I will be able to find something.

[Antshiel]

Thanks guys and guls, Webbo i'll send you a drawing of what i'm after and see what you can come up with.