Mandrel Bender

[nd_dsm]

Nick, this has been bugging me for awhile. How old are you? How did you start this business, I can tell from the looks of it, your young, and your gonna retire early. Just wanted to know how you got your own business off the ground basically.

[Guest]

Would you fabricate up a 3" for my 1g?

Do you just need cars to fabricate up exhausts for or will this be at an extremely low price.

[DaveH]

nd_dsm wrote:
Nick, this has been bugging me for awhile. How old are you? How did you start this business, I can tell from the looks of it, your young, and your gonna retire early. Just wanted to know how you got your own business off the ground basically.

He just looks young.... he's actually older than I am.

[Dangler]

nd_dsm wrote:
Nick, this has been bugging me for awhile. How old are you? How did you start this business, I can tell from the looks of it, your young, and your gonna retire early. Just wanted to know how you got your own business off the ground basically.

thread jack - send him a PM or call him

christ

[Dangler]

DaveH wrote:
Ok, it looks like I was a little off... I just checked wotm.com and it's only $2550.

Nick, you can use my car for mock-up on this.

[92TSIpos]

DaveH wrote:
Ok, it looks like I was a little off... I just checked wotm.com and it's only $2550.

Thats still outragous, If I were you I would just have nick build you something sweet.

[PSI2HI]

Dave,
Thats pretty insane for a turboback but like Brety said your supra owners they see you coming and know you got $$. If people are paying it i'd be selling it for that much too.

Brett,
I thought your car sold?

ND DSM,
Im 23, not quite as old Dave, haha only about half way there :-p.

[92TSIpos]

Not to whore the thread nick but could you make me an aluminum upper radiator pipe like the one you had on your talon? I thought that looked badass.

[PSI2HI]

92TSIpos wrote:
Not to whore the thread nick but could you make me an aluminum upper radiator pipe like the one you had on your talon? I thought that looked badass.

Yeah, im gonna start making those things again here soon once i get a little bit of time to start playing around w/ random stuff.

[Raider]

"Im 23, not quite as old Dave, haha only about half way there :-p."
ya I think Dave is like 42 or something =P

[92TSIpos]

PSI2HI wrote:
Yeah, im gonna start making those things again here soon once i get a little bit of time to start playing around w/ random stuff.
did you make that one off your talon that marc johnson has, and what was it aluminum or stainless? If you do make one for me you should find some couplers to go with it?

[seanjohn]

PSI2HI wrote:
What exhaust setup are you gonna be lookin for? I've done 3" over the axle on a CRX before, its a PITA, but do able.

I am gonna go 2.5"...I'd like to go over the axle just because it'd be more drivable.....but a big part of me just wants to do a single bend and go underneath the axle.

[24valvenotak]

Im lookin for a "dual" catback...

[Dangler]

PSI2HI wrote:
Brett,
I thought your car sold?

Yeah, its sold twice actually The last guy was very reputable so I'm surprised he backed out - heck, he even talked to DH about my car.

Its sitting in Fargo in heated storage. I can pull it out if you want to mock up on it - keep in mind that its a stock twins and not a single setup. DH - does your turbo sit the same place as it would on a GTE Head??? Maybe that would be a better option for Nick

Brett

[DaveH]

Pretty sure the turbo sits in a slightly different position on my car.

[PSI2HI]

Well every header is gonna move the turbo slightly either way.

[awd95mn]

so does this mean that you guy's exhaust will cost even less?

[Guest]

Raider wrote:
"Im 23, not quite as old Dave, haha only about half way there :-p."
ya I think Dave is like 42 or something =P

nah, he's only 40

[PSI2HI]

Just got off the phone w/ the manufacturer of the bender. The largest i would be doing is 3". To do anything larger than that you have to step up into a larger machine and the tooling and what not is just ridiculous and i dont really see it being feasble just to do 4". To do anything over 4" the machine alone would be well over $100k plus tooling. And just to give you an idea for the machine im looking @ tooling for 2.5" is $5500 and 3" is $6000, so i dont even wanna know what it cant get up to to do say 4" and 5". Its simply just not worth it. But he's gonna send me over a pricing guide and cost estimates and we'll go from there. Said it could take up to 8 weeks to get a machine as they have the tooling built and that has been known to take 6 weeks @ times. So as soon as i get the quote from him im gonna look it over see how things are and then go from there.

[probe this]

Sounds badass nick. If you need a 2.3dohc 96 prelude to play with, my buddy has one that needs exhaust badly. Keep us informed.