Well its finally started, the backbone of the ute drift ute will be meters and meters of tube that tie everything into to make it rigid, light and strong. After finally getting it home in the back of the ute the action starts. Heres what a lazy Saturday at my place looks like.
I made this tube bender with pure hard work, i always think about the hard times ive been through all my builds and it always revolves around money, with hard work, thought and a lot of patiance you can achieve just about anything. The money saved here is incredible.
The back bone of the chassis is the main hoop, this is the first tube i have ever bent myself and it was a piece of cake, now i can go onto the rear cradle pick up points and then im well on the way to this being a roller.
The sheds copped another clean out with a new bench setup in the rear, theres not much room so every little bit counts. With the tools to now go full steam ahead on the chassis work im getting excited. So much work and thought goes into this project, every single thing will be done by my own two hands, after every solid day i work on this im absolutely stuffed, that first lap steering it will be epic though.
Steve Kae
you blow my mind dude…. crazy shit 😀
Landberg
Sweet! 🙂
Timmy
Good work nige. Good to see things coming together so well!
Pavel
Looking good mate! keep up the hektikness!!!! 🙂
James
Awesome! Love your work, Nigel! Would be possible to do a dedicated post to ‘how’ you build the bender, and possibly the notcher?
AGESS
mad as. thats race
Drew
Any chance on a video on how the tube bender works? looks really good. Good luck can’t wait to see this completed.
Travis
Super RAD!!!!!! Nice use of space!
Adam Schilling
AWESOME.
But I love that garage setup too. Any chance of a post on the garage? Looks so tidy and organised.
James
Awsome stuff, really like your quality of build, cant wait to see the final product
bozzy
that looks awesome. any chance of you posting plans for that bender? something that compact might actually fit in my garage.
dylan
yes finally! i check like 10x a day for updates on this thing
Brad
Nice Work! Did you make the dies for the bender aswell?
drifting
coming along nicely.. I thought you bought that tube bender. it’s cool!
maybe you should patent that design, build some more and sell them to give you a bit of extra pocket money towards the build?
Mez
Yessss nigesta!
bcp
Looks awesome impressive work there!
Nick Wedd
epic stuff man, but wheres the close ups of your tube bender?? that needs a post by itself!
Jess
awesome stuff dude.. you are an inspiration and your work and cars are badass. please can we have some more pics of the bender.
cheers from a fan in zimbabwe
sakone
Hating on you for liking your work. I thought you were working out of a bigger size shop, not a single car garage. Bookmarking this blog.
That tube bender is tits, need more specs and pics.
Airat
as firms bender?