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Hah! I F-up more poop than most, I just don't post my F-ups.
I don't understand where that metal piece with the crushed end was located; was it in the tray? A coupler? Part of a longer exhaust tube that broke?
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Hah! I F-up more poop than most, I just don't post my F-ups.
I don't understand where that metal piece with the crushed end was located; was it in the tray? A coupler? Part of a longer exhaust tube that broke?
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Hit the nail on the head here. Steve needs to gtfo of this business already.
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- the jetski grave yard
you can buy those mandrel pre bent pieces on ebay pretty cheap and i'll bet money that dude didnt find no mandrel bender and have those made. they were purchased and welded. brawler said he dented his and others probably dented them too. BFD! make a big deal out of nothing but thats what guys that dont know dick, do. and if you put the holds all the way in the back, there is more clearance. forward and the pipe gets in the way.
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- Marion, Ohio
Yes, those pieces were purchased from ebay or somewhere on those lines and chopped/welded. However, CNC mandrel benders aren't really that rare. I worked for a small ATV racing shop about 5 min from my house that has an Eagle CNC mandrel bender. However, they can only bend a select few diameters of tubing though because the dies are so expensive. I would say they aren't any rarer than a laser, waterjet, or decent CNC machine. Hell, you can pick up a smaller one new for $40k.
I don't see denting the exhaust tube a bit making much of a difference at all in power. The cross sectional area of a b-pipe or PFP exit tube is only about 1/4 the area of a 2.75" exhaust tube.
I don't see denting the exhaust tube a bit making much of a difference at all in power. The cross sectional area of a b-pipe or PFP exit tube is only about 1/4 the area of a 2.75" exhaust tube.
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$40K ha ha! according to wb1994, every hillbilly shop should have one of those in stock at that ass wipe price. yea, the stinger on the PFP is about 1.5" if you look in the stinger end where the 2" nipple is welded to. yours looks good but those 90s also add restriction to the flow. i'm sure that little dent is more free flowing but more hillbilly for sure.
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The company i work for has 7 lasers a waterjet and a tube bender! FTW!
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every muffler shop in the world has a tubing bender not a mandrel bender. i can bend aluminum tubing on a regular bender but you cant do very sharp bends or it kinks. cheap aluminum tubing has to be heated, cooled then bent or it breaks. regular benders reduce the size of the tubing where its bent, where a mander bender does not and thats the advantage.
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Buzz the bend needed to not dent the exit tube could be done with a $50 harbor freight hand bender.
Yes if you want to bend alum tubing in 90s or even 45s you need a big money machine.
End of story, it could have been done nicer than smashing it with a hammer. And if flow isn't a big deal then why would yami ever go from 2 inch on the SN to 2 3/8s on the newer SJs? Yep
Yes if you want to bend alum tubing in 90s or even 45s you need a big money machine.
End of story, it could have been done nicer than smashing it with a hammer. And if flow isn't a big deal then why would yami ever go from 2 inch on the SN to 2 3/8s on the newer SJs? Yep
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i could have dented that with basically no tools and made it look clean. i never said a bender was required at all, that was the rookie builders or peanut gallery. the larger pipe on a 96+ isnt a requirement or every monkey that put a 701 in an old square would be losing power due to the smaller tube YUP : )=
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Its not the hold thats in the way , guess you dont know dick ....
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yea, i guess if owning , tearing apart and or putting back together the 400-500 skis from 1976 thru 2013 years makes and models i've had in my 10 year jetski career, means i know dick, i'd hate to even describe how little you must know. keep posting your hillbilly methods and you'll get a few followers that know even less than you do. and yea, its the area where the dash meets the tray, but who care since this pipe dent bash should be a non issue anyway. chan owners/buyers should and do have bigger concerns.
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I do ours with a big hammer lol. I get it pretty clean! We also use 2.5" tubing so flow is no big deal from a small ding. The only way around it for ours is to have it exit lower on the bulkhead. I really dont see this as a huge issue. There are bigger things being addressed here.
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So honest no one bugs you Brian lol no one has had issues with a brawler so everyone over looks the small issue that u are admitting too
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I don't believe lord buzzzard would wrench on skis. I thought you would hire out to some illeagals or some scumy kid down the street. You can't get that shiny shirt dirty or your wifey would get mad.
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My point exactly, why is the snot being beaten out if this dead horse of an issue? Just because Steve did it? Get back on the correct bashing track and focus on the real issues. Let me dig up a formula on volumetric efficiency of a tube. If anything that bump may act like a venturi and create a scavenging effect on the exhaust system lol.
Edit: volumetric efficiency is not quite the term, but I can flow bench a tube with and without a dent next time I venture somewhere with a bench. I have one place in mind.
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Byeai
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Like some said people are on a band Wagon so I think what happen to Christian and Tyler hulls suck and isn't proper business yes but everyone that is bashing Steve that hasn't't delt with him is also wrong for doing it but if Steve wants to destroy his hull building business because of a few issues that he could fix then let him but at this point I think the horse is dead Steve doesn't post here he's done and his molds are for sale let some one else pick up the molds and try to deal with deadline and guidelines of customers
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The big difference is that Brian communicates, is up front and takes care of his customers.
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I know , Ive seen the pictures of your junk , yard. I've pulled appart and put back together hundreds of jetskis too. Who cares. Pull one appart youve done them all. Been tinkering with them since the mid 80's. Won sickest ski at Wavedaze with a ski I built around the time you started selling overpriced junk. Buying an aftermarket hull and motor doesnt automaticly make you the knowledge king.
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- new jersey
Come back every few days and this thread just keeps on giving..
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Guys, drop the insults or this thread goes to Davey Jones Locker again.............. and some of you with it.
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