apparently none of the exhaust shops in my area have mandrel bends.. Options

[brianforster]

so for you east coasters out there you probably know what im talking about when i say MIR (maryland international raceway) but incase you dont it won like track of the year this year or last year or something and that show PINKS is hosted at it, were a redneck town, lots of muscle cars.

so i go to the shop that most of the hotrod guys get there exhaust done at (it is a mr tire, but specializes in custom exhaust)

the guy said "its not crush bent but it will still have ripples on the metal" whatever that means, and he wanted 270 bucks to bend/weld it up even though i was supplying the downpipe, cat, flex pipe, and muffler..

so i think what i am going to do is buy the necessary mandrel bends and then take it back to him and have him use his own straight pipe.

rant aside, does anyone know what mandrel bends i might have to order in order for everything to fit properly?

did anyone else have a hard time finding a shop local to them that did mandrel bends?

oh yeah teh guy also said "i dont know any shops around here that have mandrel machines"

[playr158]

yea most shops have compression benders...not really bad but still not as smooth as mandral since the diameter changes in the bend and its not really good for anything above 45*
JCwhitney has really cheap aluminized steel mandral bends