'74 Dodge D100 Adventurer - Finn The Truck

Got it all fixed for $60 including a new collector and about 3 ft of pipe installed. Apparently the previous shop was using a hanger to push the exhaust down on the end that one side so the collector would go upwards and line up. So, the exhaust shop guy made the pipe higher. Oh and that hole? it was from the hanger that was pushing down. It ripped off and left the hole you see in the picture above. That got welded up. Previous exhaust shop told me it was my problem now. It was also jingling against the exhaust I think or it coulda been the motor mount. who knows, glad its gone

It sounds a million times better now though! :cheers: Its a quite raspy through the glasspacks, but that's okay. I might go to a Y to 3" through a ceramic packed muffler and to the normal stock location of behind the axle on the passenger side. That'll be later on

Oh and I forgot to say, when I did the headers, I replaced the passenger side motor mount. It used to feel like the transmission was shifting real real hard. Now, its not as hard but still pretty damn firm. It also made the body not rattle as much


Yesterday's progress was a lil small but big at the same time. I got my vacuum advance to work. For some reason the vacuum advance port before was always pulling vacuum, even at idle. I checked it yesterday with the manager of the local Advance as I went up there to show him my truck as he hadn't seen it lately. We were both curious if we could get it to run the advance, so we pulled the vacuum plug again and low and behold its not sucking vacuum anymore at idle.we hooked up the advance and now, it'll roast that right rear wheel off without bogging down from a stop. I can't wait to get my thermoquad and see how it'll behave then!

This truck always impresses me as the small things really go a long way