Hydroforming - exhaust manifolds
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 10:05 pm
With Guys permission I would like you all to introduce you to an interesting and inovative technology called Hydroforming.
Up till now I have only seen this done in here in a local company that specializes in motorcycle exhausts and has only recently started doing car manifolds and silencers. (Sadly only for elite cars). Well to get to the point what facinated me the most when wisiting their factory was a process called hydroforming. What they actually do is take roughly formed pipes for manifolds and secure them in a jig then they force a water based medium at high pressure/flow to shape them as it is optimum for a fluid to pass trough.
As I think they are the only ones doing this type of pipe shaping I am posting a link to their site where you can admire the craftmanship. I think you will enjoy the site:
http://www.akrapovic.com/technology/hydroforming/
The company started as a one mans vision to make the best exhausts. So he stared making them in a shed behind his parents house...
Up till now I have only seen this done in here in a local company that specializes in motorcycle exhausts and has only recently started doing car manifolds and silencers. (Sadly only for elite cars). Well to get to the point what facinated me the most when wisiting their factory was a process called hydroforming. What they actually do is take roughly formed pipes for manifolds and secure them in a jig then they force a water based medium at high pressure/flow to shape them as it is optimum for a fluid to pass trough.
As I think they are the only ones doing this type of pipe shaping I am posting a link to their site where you can admire the craftmanship. I think you will enjoy the site:
http://www.akrapovic.com/technology/hydroforming/
The company started as a one mans vision to make the best exhausts. So he stared making them in a shed behind his parents house...