All,

In an effort to tidy up my engine bay, I want to make some stainless water rails to run around the cam cover (pump to inlet manifold).

Question is, as I have zilch succesful experience with bending tube, can anybody advise the best way to go about this - ebay yields 1.5mm & 0.5mm wall thickness 16mm stainless pipe, and I was thinking about hiring a conduit bender to form it... any suggestions or thoughts?

I would love to help you Greg but I have no idea!

Chris

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=omlIXsk-Y4k

use stainless plumbers pipe should get some from a good merchant

I'd use 15mm copper plumbing pipe.... Who needs stainless. Just heavy bling....

you might be right - it's done in copper at the moment & I could always get the copper chromed.....

Stainless plumbing pipe doesn't give much through google

[Edited on 6/1/09 by gregs]

No but chromed does... Check out screwfix:





All compression stuff mind (presumably the heat would kill the chroming)....

mm food for thought....

thanks for your suggestions!

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Originally posted by BenB
I'd use 15mm copper plumbing pipe.... Who needs stainless. Just heavy bling....

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