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Homemade Tube benders

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  • Start date Start date Aug 17, 2009

revhead347

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What to do when BBK pipes don't fit on their own headers.





Kurt
 

nmcgrawj

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hahaha nice!
 

tealstang67

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i used a come along he he he
 

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My cousin and I used his floorjack on my no-name longtube x-pipe. lol That's hot-rodding right there!!

Scott
 

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I was expecting an actual tubing bender.
 

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I'll admit I would be a wuss and be scared to mess them up. I'd send them back and be like **** dont fit
 

revhead347

Apparently my ex-husband made that mistake.
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MysteryMachine said:
I'll admit I would be a wuss and be scared to mess them up. I'd send them back and be like **** dont fit
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Eh, it was only off about an inch, and I really wanted the car out of my shop that day. Odds are if you send it back, they are just going to send you another one that doesn't fit. If I busted it, I'm sure I could have welded it back together. I had also spent a good deal of time removing the inlet tube for the smog pump. You can see on the right side where I patched it after grinding it all the way off. I'll never understand why they always put an inlet tube for the damn smog pump on every aftermarket H/X-pipe. Why pump air into the exhaust when there are no cats. That BBK longtube and X-pipe requires so many mods to put it in, removing that smog pump line is the least of your problems.

Kurt
 

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Hah, nice work. I had to do the same **** to make my BBK ORX to mate up to my BBK LTs, except I used a torch to heat up the pipe and just bent it.
 
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