Best Company To Buy Stainless Turbo Piping From?

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Originally Posted by 96z28ss

One question I have is there a market for super high quality bends? I'm talking bends that have no markings at all. Bends that are perfectly round no matter where you cut them as long as you cut from the centerline.
Is there a point where its just too expensive.

Even Burns, Woolf, and SPD have some ovalizing in the bend... it's just the nature of the material and process. I'd say the amount of "ovalizing" is the same between Columbia River and Burns/Woolf/SPD: it's more a function of bend radius, tube diameter, and wall thickness than who built it-- unless the bend shop has really sloppy or undersized inside mandrels.

The biggest difference between Columbia River and Woolf/SPD/Burns is cosmetic-- CR's bends often have very light scratches or light gouges from the dies where the other 3 are nearly perfect. However, there are some things CR doesn't offer that the other guys do-- 321 and Inconel tubing and bends, ovalized bends and tubing, 1D tight radius bends, a multitude of CNC exhaust flanges, merge collectors, etc. All parts at the high end of the materials and use market.

CR is a GREAT outfit though for tubing, bends, and exhaust fab hardware like flexes and v-bands and their prices are great. You just have to go to the other guys for more high end or specialized components and materials which is why I use all of them. I used CR for all the aluminum intercooler tubing, 3" v-bands, 3" and 1.75" flex sections, tubing from the wastegate outlets back to the downpipes, and exhaust from the downpipes to the mufflers. I purchased the CNC turbo and manifold flanges and 321 stainless tubing from SPD. I purchased a few 1R tight radius bends for the intercooler to the throttle body and the downpipe bends from Woolf, and I bought 1.75" v-bands for the wastegates from Burns.

Sometimes it's a matter of buying from the supplier who has what you need. For bang for the buck I try to buy everything I can from CR!