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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Thanks, ajgriffin, for the reminder. A quick text to Rob and it turns out the wooden bucks still exist and are headed my way next week
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Sold by All-American Billet, made to reside in the stock location but out of the way of the tires on slammed trucks. I found out about them after seeing them installed on the Ghoesst “Tahoe”.
https://shop.allamericanbillet.com/a...uctid=-8534758
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Sorry it took so long to respond, haven't been on since my last post and your thread has added 4 pages of stuff since then. Glad you didn't need the part number. ![]() Quote:
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Few little things I’ve been able to get knocked out: first, I ordered the Dakota Digital mounting bracket from Dead End Garage. It comes raw and undrilled, so I tapped it for stainless hardware and slapped some rattle can satin black on it. Mounts up nice and saves me having to make something; in this case it was deemed worth the money. Also got started on the exhaust; now that all of the other major components are in place, I can figure out where to snake it through. I decided on an x-pipe this time, and it was a chore threading it around the trans x-member, driveshaft loop, and through the cutouts in the trailing arm x-member. I’m calling it good enough for now, and it is stubbed and ready to start the rear (difficult) section.
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
That trans x-member the way it zigs and zags sure is nice creating that perfect clearance for long tubes. I wish I new about that one. I'm half tempted to modify mine but I will wait for phase II. Everything is already done and I need to move on the paint.
So one thing I noticed, that I have not ever seen before, is how you put the x pipe sideways like that. I assume you did your research on that and it should flow, but my first thought seeing that is "will if flow properly"? It looks great under there like that man. .
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Looks good! I wish I could fit an X-pipe on a Blazer.
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I’ve looked and scratched my head a bit and have come to realize that the gasses would still be flowing through the X the same way, it’s just the bends in the ‘legs’ that are at different angles, if that makes sense. Guess we’ll see how it works out? The trans crossmember is an ECE (or POL, or CPP, can’t remember) that I modified. Works great for what I needed. See how I did it here: https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...&postcount=314
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
I think we can make it happen, I have a few ideas on how
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
I'll drive it to your house and we can crawl underneath and discuss. I'd love to hear your ideas.
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Oh shoot man, I remember that post now. So it was YOU!!! lol. That gave me that idea. We have the same crossmember. I shoulda coulda woulda.
Yeah it's those angles that concern me. I realize the actual X is a wide open chamber, but the air/gases moving along the pipe bends coming into the X will be angled toward the opposing side instead of into the X like normal. So essentially the left and right banks will be angled "against" each other(like a head on collision), more violently than if they were angled parallel "with" each other. I think of those wind tunnels they build to test aerodynamics of cars, or I think of porting and polishing heads and gasket matching ports to create a smoother flow of air. I don't want to say this "isn't" going to work, my brain is just having a hard time imagining it will work efficiently is all. I see turbulance in your future ![]() .
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I think one of these “sideways” and four mandrel 90s and we’re in business.
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Then again, i'm no expert, i could be wrong ![]() .
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Valve cover adapters I simply sanded and used a self etching primer to help the paint stick to the aluminum.
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Re: How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10
Took some time to get the exhaust plumbed over the rear axle. Im using mandrel bends for everything and “snapper” bushing hangers. I had to replace the magnaflows with these Borla pro-xs, due to the outlet configuration; hopefully they sound decent, hard to tell from YouTube clips. It’s all tacked and ready for final weld tomorrow
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Great work. Ive heard Borla exhaust before on a cousins 2019 silverado with the 5.3. It sounds pretty good.
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That's the same mufflers that B.O.B. has on it. I think they'll sound good on there.
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I had Borlas on my 83 and they sounded really good.
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I do like Bob’s tone, but a big Ford will sound different than my little Chevy. I looked at venom 250s, but they’re just so loud. (I think I just got old) Thanks for the input. I’m still torn, but if they get rid of the glasspack-sounding “clap” that the Magnaflows had, I’ll be happy
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