HOME MADE EXHAUST
The tips are subtle. The car is meant to be a sleeper, so no need to advertise what might be happening under the hood. The idle is mellow, if a bit choppy.
Is it perfect? Not by a long shot. Am I pretty happy with it for the first exhaust system I've ever attempted, using crap I had lying around? Hells yes! It's quiet inside the car, and during normal driving, but barks like a rabid dog when my foot's near the steering box. When I brought the car home, my next-door neighbors (a couple in their early 70s) were outside. They'd been listening to open headered-revs for a few weeks by then, so I started it up for 'em and wound it up a few times. I shut the car off and asked 'em what they thought. They looked at each other and Suzy said, "I liked it better before."
:wtf:
Always wanting to stay good with my neighbors, I ordered a couple of cheap V-bands from eBay and welded one side of each to 3" stubs left over from the X-pipe. The other side got a piece of flat steel welded into it:
These will get "fishmouth" cuts on the free ends and be mounted behind the X-section, right at the turns to go back to the mufflers. A couple of turns with a 1/2" wrench and it'll be wide-open exhaust...
...because having Suzy ***** about my exhaust system just won't do. :D
The tips are subtle. The car is meant to be a sleeper, so no need to advertise what might be happening under the hood. The idle is mellow, if a bit choppy.
Is it perfect? Not by a long shot. Am I pretty happy with it for the first exhaust system I've ever attempted, using crap I had lying around? Hells yes! It's quiet inside the car, and during normal driving, but barks like a rabid dog when my foot's near the steering box. When I brought the car home, my next-door neighbors (a couple in their early 70s) were outside. They'd been listening to open headered-revs for a few weeks by then, so I started it up for 'em and wound it up a few times. I shut the car off and asked 'em what they thought. They looked at each other and Suzy said, "I liked it better before."
:wtf:
Always wanting to stay good with my neighbors, I ordered a couple of cheap V-bands from eBay and welded one side of each to 3" stubs left over from the X-pipe. The other side got a piece of flat steel welded into it:
These will get "fishmouth" cuts on the free ends and be mounted behind the X-section, right at the turns to go back to the mufflers. A couple of turns with a 1/2" wrench and it'll be wide-open exhaust...
...because having Suzy ***** about my exhaust system just won't do. :D
