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The exhaust is done! I knew before I started this project that there is a sliding scale between time and money and it has been proven over and over again, the less money you spend the more time it will take. The exhaust was no exception. The kit I bought is designed for an old school smallblock with headers and a turbo 350 tranny. Since I have an LS with a 4l60E this led to a few complications. In order to have the crossover tube not make it impossible to ever do any work to the transmission I had to move the crossover back behind the tranny. This meant that instead of cutting the pipes on the straight portion like they were designed to be I had to cut them behind the X while still in the X. What this means is that the entire intended goemetry from there back was thrown way out of whack turning this kit into a combination of pre made and cut to fit. I bought one mandrel 180 and used that to get from the manifolds to the duals and then used what was left along with cutting strategic angles to get everything else to work. I think a custom system from an exhaust shop would have been better, but I'll rate this as acceptable.

I also started with the intention of just using the supplied u bolts, but after setting everything in place just about anywhere that would need a clamp was against a crossmember or something. Since this kit already hangs kinda low I had to weld those in order to not have to drop the pipes even lower for the clamp so I just went ahead and welded everything. This did make for a solid system and I think I'll be fine with only one hanger for each pipe. I went by an exhaust shop and showed them the mufflers that came with the kit and told them I wanted to be quieter. They told me about the only way to go quieter would be to go with a stock type muffler. I've had systems with turbo mufflers before so I decided to just try these and see if I could live with them. I never had a system with a crossover before and what a difference, I think the sound out of these will be fine. As an added bonus I was able to drive in and out of the garage for the first time, which is nice because it has been hard to push since I put the engine in. Enough talk, here's some pictures!