I've been interested in the ripple pipe, so I'm building a machine to make it. If everything goes as planned the pipe will have 24 inches of ripple in the middle and 2 inches of straight pipe on either end. It will probably take another month to get it in order. I will keep a post on the progress.
swueet....lots folks were askin about it some time back.....keep us in the loop....and post up pics of the contraption....we always like tools....
Looks cool but how durable is it? I use the regular chrome pipe with stick hose for the last 50 years and still works--LOL
its just 16 gauge exhaust pipe chromed... convoluted pipe. last plenty long was a huge thread on this stuff not long ago
Hmmmm. Wonder if that would work on Stainless Steel tubing? (I love my stainless exhaust, do it once and never worry about it again!)
Superior tubing still makes the convoluted stuff it, I contacted them and asked if they could do a special order for us, they said 30 stick minimum order, and it was cheap too, like $12 a stick... When I asked if anybody wanted it in on a group buy, nothing but crickets chirping. Oh well...
I believe if you look closely, the Pep boys tubing has "rings" that are larger diameter than the smooth sections of the pipe. Where as the old time Fenton ripple pipes, the rings are not bigger but the same diameter throught the whole length of the pipe. Like the pic shown by the previous poster. I think both look fine chromed but if you are a stickler for details the even ones are more correct.
YES!!! thats the way Alex Gambino did on May Cause dangerous... I would love to see how this machine turns out,,, sounds good..
Very interesting.. Pressure... huh... So will you make them out of stainless??? that would be bad ass.... regular steel wouldn't be that crazy since you can still get the piping online and at Pep boys.. Please keep us posted..
Some of the last machining is being done on the machine. I will try stainless to where it could be welded on and polished.
I saw the tooling that he made for this. Its very cool and I can't wait to see the first piece of rippled pipe come from it.
superior is on bullshit.. they said the same thing to me like $300 minimum order, and i was ready to pony up... i set up a deal with 4-5 different diameters and lengths, and was gonna spend $500 to have it sittin around and to help people out.. ive written em back every two weeks for a year... still nothing.. crap... get that piping done i love it!
I actually have a piece of the original J.C.Whitney pipe, about 5 ft long, with the original wrapper still on it. It went begging for a bid on that e-gay site, but getting it chromed sounds like a winner to me.
Still waiting on the machine shop. With the replies I'm getting I hope this damn thing works up to par! This thing is an experiment for my brain anyway, but if you don't try you'll never do. I'll keep an update.
thats the real shit ( above ) and the stuff we made below the other stuff is exhaust pipe made to bend with out a pipe bender if you have them side by side there is a differance the stuff in the pics here is like what fenten used to make and in the pics in the lil book adds
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