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Thanx man!! You and jdoisher and a few others got me wishin i would have pancaked my front crossmember. Its really cool how everybody feeds off each others ideas :metal:
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I really want to but im gonna wait till after i drive it a while and have the money to build.a 496 out of a spare block i have. This is just phase 1 of this build. If i keep it i plan on tearing it back down after i drive it for a while to build a motor. Powder coat everything and do all the body work with a glossy black paint job. Since this was my first build i didnt wanna go all out with the paint on the frame and stuff cause i knew i would need to change things like i have
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Thanks you. Yeah I hear you man. The more I think about it I may have gone a little overboard on the painting for my first build:lol: but since I paint cars for a living it won't be a big deal to repaint some things if need be:lol:
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ya but i would cry if i had to mess up that pretty paint!!!! lmao
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You gotta start making two of everything. One for you and one for me :) haha
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haha i wish it were that easy
thanx man!!! i got some updates today.. got one side of my exhaust pretty much all fitted and tacked together.. gotta make some more hangers then do alot of welding.. i made some pie cuts around the tranny crossmember to make it clear.. ill take some better pics of that when i go to weld it up.. was hard to get a good shot from under the truck the exhaust is prolly gonna be way too loud but im gonna try it out and see how i like it.. i can always add more mufflers under the cab. also i got a question?? since there really insnt room under the cab i thought about adding an H pipe right after where the the exhaust comes through the rear crossmember.. would i benifit much for doing this or is it a bad idea?? |
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also u can see i took my trailing arm brackets off my rear crossmember. im gonna try to get them modifyed tonight
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Nice job buddy! almost ready to fire up? ive been waiting patiently!:lol:might as well pull the front xmember down and chop it up while your at it for some ground clearance:lol: maybe this will help....
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man thats pretty!!! ya im really tempted!! im running 2" drop spindles. i would like to be able to use stock ones like you are.. i bet ur ground clearance is way better than mine in the front.. and it goes lower!!! lol
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Nice work on the exhaust.:smoke: I have to do the same thing to my 66. That cross member makes me want to go tear mine out.:lol:
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good work man... closing in on a driver.
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When I added my cross over pipe (White '67 Camaro behind shop) the exhaust note did seem to be a little less loud.
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i did get a lil farther this weekend.. there first couple pics are of the mods i did to the trailing arm brackets.. since i set up my bag brackets with those huge lowering blocks the bags were bottoming out before going all the way down with the smaller lowering blocks (another nooby mistake learned the hard way :lol::lol::lol:). so i made the holes on the trailing arm brackets about 1 1/2 lower than stock. it hangs just a lil bit below my crossmember but it wont be a problem because i wont be going low enough to touch that anyway since my front wont go that low.. im just gonna level it with some bump stops so it never drags anything in the rear. also got my exhaust most of the way done.. just need to finish 1 more hanger, finish my H pipe and do all the final welding.. also gonna need to reroute the air line for the front bags now but thats no biggie. its hard to tell from the pics but ive got about 3/4 inch of clearance between my exhaust and my tranny crossmember. btw all the exhaust under the cab will get heat wrapped to keep my fuel line as cool as possible anyway enough blabbing and on with the pics |
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and ya i know this exhaust is gonna be a lil overkill being 3 inch on a basically stock 454 but one day i plan to build a pretty nasty 496 so i dont wanna have to upgrade that later on
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looks like careful planning is paying off. there is alot of stuff going on in that small area.definitely think routing the exhaust thru the trailing arm front bracket is the way to go. no ground clearance issues.3 inch ehaust is HUGE. nice job
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Looking great man! I'm ready to hear it start up!!!:lol::lol:
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Thanx guys!!! I got my crossover pipe done. Just gotta do some final welding and the exhaust will be pretty much done
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That is some twisted wicked exhaust!
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Ya its pretty crazy lookin and not normal so i knew you would like it
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never seen anyone do their exhaust like that. Its cool looking!
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thanx Bazooka!!
i got a chance to do a little more work. im waiting on some header wrap and some flex couplings. then i will finally be able to finish the exhaust up. besides that i got the holes drilled for the crossover pipe, and all the welding done today. i noticed that some H pipes have a smaller hole than the diameter of pipe. I had a hole saw to cut a hole for a door knob so i just used that.. i believe it was 1 3/4" anyway on with the pics |
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thanx man!
im really not sure.. i think its just so the pressures can equalize without too much exhaust getting trapped in the crossover pipe but thats just a guess. |
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