Anyone have air ride + X pipe exhaust?

[Baged72]

How how how?? Pics if possible...
my dumbass bought a full xpipe kit but... with bags i cant really have it below my frame, what can i do????

[gcburdic]

You may need to run shorty headers so you can turn your exhaust and run it besides the tranny, change out the tranny x-member and either replace or bore holes in the trailing arm x-member to tuck that exhaust up...make sense?

[Baged72]

I have really small shorty headers almost like stubbies lol and it does run next to my tranny right now, and there are holes in the xmember that the pipes run through but this is on duel exhaust so they dont cross each other. I cant figure out how to cross with the damn drive line as its not much higher than the frame rails.

Remove the tranny Xmember?? That part i dont understand how else do I hold up the tranny??

[gcburdic]

sorry for any confusion...don't you know they hold themselves up j/k

I meant a tranny x-member like Early Classics Enterprises sells...http://www.earlyclassic.com/catalog.aspx

think I saw a thread recently where someone did use an H-pipe to go up over the driveshaft...let me see if I can find it for ya...
this one shows roting but no crossover...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=330492
here's a good one for ya...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=380456

[dznucks]

the second link that gcburdic posted is my current set up.

I am about to do a T-56 install and will be running into the same situation that you are describing with the tranny x-member. You can purchase a new x-member that has cutouts for the exhaust or you can fab one yourself with the peices shown in the attached photo.

This is an unkown that I will have to tackle once the new engine and tranny are in, but i'll try to post pics when i get it finished. A good exhaust guy is key.

[Fitz]

Originally Posted by Baged72

How how how?? Pics if possible...
my dumbass bought a full xpipe kit but... with bags i cant really have it below my frame, what can i do????

You really don't need a x pipe. You could use an H just behind the trans but I didn't.
Long tube headers, holes through the trailing arm cross member and 14 in shorty mufflers tucked up over the top of the trailing arms, exhaust around the tank and out under the bumper worked for me.

[Fitz]

Originally Posted by Fitz

You really don't need a x pipe. You could use an H just behind the trans but I didn't.
Long tube headers .....

And if you think long tube headers hang down too low:

[67chevemall]

Originally Posted by fitz

you really don't need a x pipe. You could use an h just behind the trans but i didn't.
Long tube headers, holes through the trailing arm cross member and 14 in shorty mufflers tucked up over the top of the trailing arms, exhaust around the tank and out under the bumper worked for me.

man that is one awsome exhaust !!