Tubular Tuesday's

[bentfab]

I've been thinking of this for a good while now and thought I would share some of my past and present plumbing projects and call it Tubular Tuesday's. Every Tuesday I or anyone else with plumbing pics,ideas or tech would be a pretty cool idea to help and share with the community.

Plumbing on any car is probably one of the most over looked and neglected aspects of a car. Trust me I've seen it all ! It blows my mind when I see $100,000.00 + cars with dangling brake and fuel lines zip tied and shoved into a crevice of the car or run under the carpet for that so called "clean look". Take a little pride and patience and do it write. After all it's your LIFE !


So let me start it off with a few pics and see how things go !

[War]

I so need to learn to do this. Nice work!

[Teetoe_Jones]

Where did you get the clamps that hold the brake lines onto that tube chassis with the cantilever coil overs? Those are slick!

Tyler

[ironworks]

We water jet our own. They just suck to sand and smooth.

[monza]

Great idea on a thread, thanks.
Impressive for sure.

[Cris@JCG]

We have alot learned alot when comes to plumbing in the last couple of months.. We try to keep eveything with clamps & out of the way with safety in mind.. Alot of work to plumb a car..

[bentfab]

Originally Posted by Teetoe_Jones

Where did you get the clamps that hold the brake lines onto that tube chassis with the cantilever coil overs? Those are slick!

Tyler

Yeah they were slick. About 8 years ago I had a few made and they cost me my left leg. So if you see me limping you'll know why.

Problem with this style of clamp is you might need 3 or 4 different size radius's to run one line from front to back. So when one clamp is made you need to make the most common used sizes 1/4, 3/4, 1, 1-1/4, 1-1/2, 1-5/8, 1-3/4, & 2. There not easy and any machinist would want to have a min. of 250 to 500 to make it worth while for both parties.
Let's just say at that quanity they would be $3.50 ea. That's 2000 to 4000 peaces X $3.50 = $7000.00 to $17,500 for ONE FREAK-EN SIZE

Now you know why I haven't made them !

[bentfab]

Originally Posted by Jamess113

Mark, your the man when it comes bending fuel and brake lines. Your work is unreal and really inspiring. I just finished these and I think it was one of the hardest things I've done on my car so far. This is something I want to get better at.

Bad ass ! It sure can get difficult quick.

[tones2SS]

Great work guys.
(Great thread idea.)

[Moose]

what are you using to bend that big -8an aluminum line? awesome work!!!