a $6k bender is a crush bender (without tooling), mandrel benders start at $60k and go up from there
plus tooling for each different tube size on a mandrel bender cost $2k and up
if your only doing an exhaust system or 2 you're better off buying straight tubes and bends
building a custom exhaust system with a mandrel bender typically involves cutting bends and using straight pipe
only when you know the angles and rotation of each bend can you program it into the mandrel bender
we have a mandrel bender for 2.5'' and 3'' tube, anything bigger or smaller we buy bends
every custom exhaust is cut and fit, the production systems get programmed in after a lot of ''prototyping''
for roll bar cages... we have the cheap harbor fright bender
