3 sticks of 1.5 and 3 of 1.75 is usually perfect.
JD Squared is probably most commonly used bender.

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3 sticks of 1.5 and 3 of 1.75 is usually perfect.
JD Squared is probably most commonly used bender.

good to know. the benders dont seem too expensive, untill you start getting into the needed dies.

are both the 5.5" and 6.5" needed to bend up a cage? i see they are listed for right around 300 each

cost of dies makes a very good argument for using the 1.75 for all the bent cage pieces. better to over build than under build if you are trying to save costs.

am i right that it seems this eastwood bender comes with dies?
http://www.eastwood.com/professional-tubing-bender.html?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Merchant-Centre&utm_campaign=Google-Merchant-Centre



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/27/2011 11:31PM by Greg Donovan.

Not enough bend angle and too light on the wall thickness...

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Up to 60-degree bends in 1.5", 1.625" and 1.75" tubing (0.049" to 0.082" wall thickness)

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SteveL
This is the point in the killing spree when you really should turn the gun on yourself

Yeah, I didn't read the specs on the eastwood picture, but I've seen another cage bender that looks similar, so I ASSumed that's what it was. Sorry about that.

http://www.pro-tools.com/index.html

Scroll down a bit, the Pro 105 for $200, and the dies...

http://www.pro-tools.com/105tdies.htm

But for $750, you get a complete package and 1 die set...

http://www.pro-tools.com/105.htm

Get a few guys in your area to throw in, build rally cars/trucks/rock crawlers...

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Not enough bend angle and too light on the wall thickness...

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Up to 60-degree bends in 1.5", 1.625" and 1.75" tubing (0.049" to 0.082" wall thickness)

thanks! these benders will do exhaust pipe too wont they?

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Get a few guys in your area to throw in, build rally cars/trucks/rock crawlers...

here is part of the problem with grassroots rallying (hell grassroots anything) in the states. people want to own something all to themselves. they arent satisfied owning part of something. i am sure there are at least 7 people out there that would love to have custom stuff bent up for there cars.

i have no problem with this. i own half a impreza rally project, half of a giant air tank/compressor and will eventually own half a race car. all of these halves are way better than no wholes in my book. i have the space.

Got some more of the missing parts today. Also got a free terratrip 404 that needs a power cable and probe. Good thing the 202 and 303 cables work. Just need a probe.



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maybe i just listened to johnny cash too much as a kid.

As an old Johnny Cash fan, wanna splain that?

My philosophy towards building this car is to do it One Piece at a Time.

Great tune.

They actually built the car.

Wow, I didn't know they did that. Awesome.

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Not enough bend angle and too light on the wall thickness...

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Up to 60-degree bends in 1.5", 1.625" and 1.75" tubing (0.049" to 0.082" wall thickness)

thanks! these benders will do exhaust pipe too wont they?

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SteveL

Get a few guys in your area to throw in, build rally cars/trucks/rock crawlers...

here is part of the problem with grassroots rallying (hell grassroots anything) in the states. people want to own something all to themselves. they arent satisfied owning part of something. i am sure there are at least 7 people out there that would love to have custom stuff bent up for there cars.

i have no problem with this. i own half a impreza rally project, half of a giant air tank/compressor and will eventually own half a race car. all of these halves are way better than no wholes in my book. i have the space.

Greg when I first read this I din't quite know what to say, and I just re-read it and it hit me you're right. Maybe cause i saw in many areas earlier in my life being around the flying part of the US Navy, then living in a qusai-Socialist comune in LA, then moving to Sweden at 17 and working in a country whose workforce was at the time over 88% union just how much people could make work when the there was a clearly defined goal or 'mission" to work towards. That co-operative mentality, the working together for something that obviously cannot be done by any individual resulted in a ton of good, and measurable high achievement is all kinds of area material, vocational and avocational..

Then I would come back here every few years for a year or 10 months and see guys doing the ultimate control freak "I'm gonna do everything myself" thing, duplicating effort and wasting money and meanwhile time flying by.

The mystic Zen branch of Buddhism has their wry semi-nonsensical "koans" and a well known one is "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" but me being half Yanqui and raised on a diet of great Westerns and stories of the wagon trains moving (cooperatively!)(see how those seeds were planted? Combine that with the ubiquitous Christian message of the universal brotherhood of man, and then being submerged in a Socialist society---easy to see how a guy could become a filthy Red like people say I am) so I had a flash once about everybody working on their motorsport things, imagining they're doing everything themselves.
It was this" when the going got tough and the injuns are attacking and all the wagons form a circle" that's how they got across..

So with apologies to my senseis I often want to ask not what's the sound of one hand clapping but what's the sight of one wagon circling?

Glad to see you're persisting cause that's the secret of life, the universe, and everything.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/09/2011 04:48PM by john vanlandingham.

It appears we need the bit of wiring harness that runs from the ecm to the engine.


Specifically the bit that connects to the blue and grey connectors shown in the above picture.

The engine and ecm are from a 95 1.8 impreza.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/10/2011 02:30PM by Greg Donovan.

This bender worked ok for my cage. http://www.tjdieselperformance.com/

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Brap Brap.

How do I go about changing the title of my thread? I have my motivation now.

Body work is done!

My teammate did a labor trade built a motor for a guy that does body work. The guy did one hell of a job!

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Body work is done!

My teammate did a labor trade built a motor for a guy that does body work. The guy did one hell of a job!

Don't praise it too much! it's temping the rally Gods and they never sleep!

And, you have to expect it:

PICS or It didn't happen!

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.