Mandrel Bent Piping

91SERHondaKiller · Oct 16th, 2002, 07:29 PM

How much would it cost to buy mandrel bent piping on a 91 Sentra Se-r, and what would be the best size?

Zexel · Oct 16th, 2002, 07:38 PM

Jegs.com or Summitracing.com. I think it's like 3 180 degree U bends. Best size for SE-R would be 2 1/4.

91SERHondaKiller · Oct 16th, 2002, 07:41 PM

I have 2 1/4 compression bent right now, would mandrel make much of a diiference?

Zexel · Oct 16th, 2002, 10:12 PM

You mean crush bent? I don't think it'll make THAT big of a difference, but if I put it on a dyno I'm sure it would show. On some cars it really doesn't matter if it's crushed or mandrel because the bends aren't that bad. I'm thinking on our cars they are. I'm going with Mandrel myself.

hagasan · Oct 18th, 2002, 12:42 PM

actually, crush bent is different from compression bent. crush bent has little ripples in the inside of the curve, while compression bent looks smooth, just with an indentation, looking like a smaller pipe was used for the curved part. mandrel bent is by far the best, because the exhaust is a gas, and a gas flows better through an unrestricted curve than a bumpy one. also, the smoothness of mandrel bending allows the gas to gain velocity that the other type of bends dont allow. there is a word for this, but i cant remember right now. the gas basically starts to spiral, and gain speed towards the end of the pipe. this effectively helps exhaust scavenging.

p.s. this spiraling of air can also help on the intake side as well!! to cram more air into the intake

Zexel · Oct 18th, 2002, 01:56 PM

Never kenw there was such a thing as compression bent. Hmmph. I'm not in school and learned something, wow!