Thread: Beam Bending?

I *believe* the more folks, the less the cost per individual.


Yeah, with the superior independent rear suspension on the B13, we don't require any beam bending to have our cars handle correctly.

Suck it... WAIT...Scratch that.

So what's the cost?

I had this done to my car before I got it and the differece bettween the handling of this B14 and my last blows me a way. The owner before me took care of it. Lucky me. Well from what I understand the process of this beam bending is not that dificult. What I feel we lack are people who will attempt to do it. I mean we have tons of knowledgable people some with there own shops and the tools needed to do this im sure. All I am saying is yes the people who do it do it well but there deffinately needs to be more people doing this. The demand for it is quite high.

its not hard....doing it right is. If you just take and pull on it, you will end up creasing the beam. You have to hold the beam properly. Its like mandrel bending pipe. Sure you can just bend it, but it creases/crunches the pipe. You have to put a mandrel inside to hold its shape. Same with the beam. You have to setup a mandrel/jig to do it. An there is A LOT of pressure being exerted so you also have to be very safe with it.

I'd second that. The process isn't exactly witchcraft, and what's required bracketry / equipment-wise is already common knowledge.

The problem seems to be that everyone who understands that had already had it done to their car, so they don't have the means or the motivation to start doing it themselves. Not that I can blame anyone for it - I'm part of that lot.

if we can get it done down here in central florida ill put him up in a hotel room for a few days at my employee rate or might even let him stay for free im down for this anyone else willing to talk to steve

we should do this

If its with in 300 miles of Atlanta, count me in.

BTW, I think Steve wanted like $175 per car, plus if we all chip in on flight, hotel, & other we will be looking at about $250-$300 per person (counting that at least 6 people are doing it). Money which I have had in the savings acount for over a year waiting for one of these damn things to actully happen.

Isnt a shop with an alignment rack needed as well, to confirm that the bend is exact? Does someone know of a shop that will allow a day of aligning?