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Offline wideopen231

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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #30 on: February 16, 2014, 01:21:29 PM »
Thanks Bill. I have been compared to lots worst.
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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #31 on: February 16, 2014, 04:39:03 PM »
I'm pretty sure Frank would say "Ti" for wheelie bars!
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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #32 on: February 16, 2014, 05:39:09 PM »
Frank says Ti for everything. Frank can afford Ti heck his exhaust is titanium. Mosr here are po folks heck spelling it hurt my bifold.
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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #33 on: February 16, 2014, 05:45:47 PM »
Mine were MS, but if I had it to do all over again, they'd be CM. Unless my rich Uncle Frank bought me some Ti.
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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #34 on: February 19, 2014, 05:05:23 PM »
Currently my broke Uncle Sam is screwing me out of my Ti play money.
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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #35 on: February 19, 2014, 05:51:40 PM »
Yea it would be nice if everytime we needed more racing money we could take it from everyone in america rather they liked it or not.
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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #36 on: February 20, 2014, 11:29:00 AM »
Last time that I checked titanium tubing was about 34 dollars a foot ! A little too expensive for me !
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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #37 on: February 20, 2014, 05:48:28 PM »
Was at local chassis builders today had set sitting there out of titainium and told me it was 42 per foot so my thre bar set 6' long would b3e about 800 bucks just for tubing.
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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #38 on: February 21, 2014, 05:21:08 AM »
When I was running the fab shop at JFR we were paying $2 per inch for 3/4" x .060 on the secondary market.

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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #39 on: February 21, 2014, 06:24:25 AM »
If jr fuel I guess I could see it.Small motor needs all the weight savings you can get.I still would not spend the money until I had done everything else to cut weight and make every ponie I could then I would go to what I call this extreme.

 Any one know what weight savings would be for say single wheel 3 bar 6' long wheelie bar?
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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #40 on: February 21, 2014, 10:12:30 AM »
Quote from: wideopen231 on February 21, 2014, 06:24:25 AM
If jr fuel I guess I could see it.Small motor needs all the weight savings you can get.I still would not spend the money until I had done everything else to cut weight and make every ponie I could then I would go to what I call this extreme.

 Any one know what weight savings would be for say single wheel 3 bar 6' long wheelie bar?

Not including the wheel bracket and any mounting hardware (spuds/ clevis etc) the steel tubing comes in at around11.34 lbs and the Ti is 8.205 lbs so the total savings is probably going to be less than 5 lbs.

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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #41 on: February 21, 2014, 12:30:38 PM »
.003 light cost nothing and weighs "0" lbs
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Re: wheelie bars
« Reply #42 on: February 25, 2014, 07:59:51 PM »
Roo and dre, From what I can see, 'yall must take lots of breaks to be on this site as much as you are, and I'm sayin that like it's a good thing... Jeez, to calculate weight differences and such and answer sometimes dumbass questions from me... I appreciate you guys.
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