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A good night, a good night indeed....

After a month of staring up at the exhaust, I think that I have a plan. I ordered a set of ball and socket flanges for the headers this week and finally mocked it up last night.

I didn't really know where to go before this. Had the builders blues and was pretty stuck. I even went to my favorite muffler shop looking for help. Brought the headers in and asked what they had for ideas. We went though some stuff and it basically came down to "You really need to get the rig here, so we can take a look at it".

As my brain was racing on how I could even get it out of the garage and on a trailer, he must have seen my face.. :confused:

He asked where I lived and how long it would take to go home and install the headers again. I came back with "Not far, and about ten minutes"..:haha:

The owner came over to take a look. These guys build a lot of crawlers and I always see them up in the woods, snow wheelin' or whatever.

As he was laying under the rig in the garage, I realized after ten minutes of watching him, he had the same expressions that I make under there. Basically, "How in the hell is this going to work"...:whistle:

All and all, It came down to cutting the ends off the new headers. Well, I finally sacked up last night and came up with this. I did have to run back up to the exhaust shop to have them swage the ends of the new 3" flange to fit over the ends of the headers that I just hacked off. They came out pretty cool.

Anyways it's all kinda mocked up and I think that I can get maybe another 2" of clearance for the driveshaft uptravel this weekend.

Here is what I came up with..

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Not only did I move forward on the exhausts, but I picked up a different V-belt system at the pick and pull this week. I bought everything on the front of the engine so I could really see what it's gunna look like, including a smog pump....:D

I do believe this is a much better starting point than what I had on there before..

whatchathink???:waytogo:

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HA HA Deajvu That pulley system. I have been starring at that exact thing for about the last 2 weeks on my motor home(new alt and steering pump). On your motor it sits much better than the last. The headers , that was a seemingly easy fix and I know mentally you just wanted to make it work as they came out of the box. Remember this is a custom rig your buildin and everything you buy needs a wee bit of tweeking to fit. I hate that feeling of not being able to in-vision a solution on some aspects of a build to the point I even start to have dreams about it.. Nice it's came together.............For now:popcorn:
 
sponsoredbydad said:
Remember this is a custom rig your buildin and everything you buy needs a wee bit of tweeking to fit. I hate that feeling of not being able to in-vision a solution on some aspects of a build to the point I even start to have dreams about it.. Nice it's came together.............For now:popcorn:
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Yep, it came out lookin pretty easy when it was all said and done. It just always takes me a little bit with new parts.

I mean, shouldn't there be a waiting time from the second you take the new part out of the box, until you start to cut them up with the grinder...:whistle: :haha:


Thanks Chalet, I think it will work and look WAY better than that other system...:woot:
 
What kind of alternator is that? Looks about half the size of a regular gm one.
 
It actually is half of an alternator.. :eek1:

Somebody split the case in the pick and pull. I just wanted the front half for mock up, but picked up both sides and threw them in with the rest of the stuff..

You should have seen the guys face at check out. He asked me if I wanted a 13 month warranty on it. I split the case in half in front of him.. Told him, "nah, I don't think so"...:haha:

He gave it to me for the core price... :pimp:
 
Too funny. I was thinking, man I bet that bitch gets hot if it puts out more than 30 amps or so....
 
Lookin good dude:waytogo: Glad you finally got the exhaust figured, I know that was bugging you for a while now. Looks tight but it'll do:pimp:
 
Good progress Mike! :thumb:

My rule is that it's not a valid pulley setup unless you have a 3M green tape belt setup on there.... :)

What size exhaust tubing are you going with? It looks like a pretty quick transistion in diameter from the collector to through the ball-flange area to the exhaust tubing... though I'm not sure what I would have done differently.


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exhaust is a good solution buddy, exhaust is sometimes a really big deal on these trucks with so much going on.

Going to cut the collectors off my 454 headers and put the ball and flange fittings on them too. Although the dually being stock shouldn't be a big deal for the exhaust
 
Looks good. I might get a front driveshaft up there to make sure of your clearance. If you use a stock style cv joint, that pushes it out quite a bit.
 
Yeah the collector ended up pretty short, but thats still a lot better than shorties, good job making it work, it should work well.

But please tell me you aren't actually going to install the smog pump on a non emissions engine? Or maybe you are going to use it as a crankcase vacuum pump for more hp? Or try and hook it up backwards and use it as an air compressor? Sorry, I am just trying to come up with a way to use it that actually does something besides rob horsy powers.
 
Greg72 said:
Good progress Mike! :thumb:

My rule is that it's not a valid pulley setup unless you have a 3M green tape belt setup on there.... :)

What size exhaust tubing are you going with? It looks like a pretty quick transistion in diameter from the collector to through the ball-flange area to the exhaust tubing... though I'm not sure what I would have done differently.


-G
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I need to get some green tape, all I had was blue. Everyone knows, blue just doesn't cut it for making belts...

The collector is 3 1/2 as you know. I bought 3"-2 1/2" ball flange and had them swage it to fit over the collector. I hope that it doesn't starve the engine by doing this though. I just have no room to go with the 3", snake it around, them reduce it later under the rig. I guess we'll see how it works.
After spending all weekend under there, shortening it all up to the max, I kinda still have some doubts if this will still clear the driveshaft on up-travel. If not, I think that I'll be cutting into the headers and doing something up top. :dunno:

folkenheath said:
But please tell me you aren't actually going to install the smog pump on a non emissions engine? Or maybe you are going to use it as a crankcase vacuum pump for more hp? Or try and hook it up backwards and use it as an air compressor? Sorry, I am just trying to come up with a way to use it that actually does something besides rob horsy powers.
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Lol. Don't worry brother, it's not going on the rig. Just bought it for the for the pulley and bracket. I don't know how wide a York is (front to back), but if I could make one work way down there, I might go for it.


Weekend progress. Spent Saturday morning shortening up the exhaust then it was onto the doubler mount for the rest of the weekend. Only have the carcass kinda mocked up, but I think by the time I'm done with all of the little tweaks, it should come out pretty cool and strong.

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You guys think that I need to run with mounts under the feet area. I should have 6 fabricator bushings on this by the time it's done if all works out.

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I don't have any advice to give (you should know that by now. :P ), but all those bends sure do give it a nice, pretty, "well built" look. I love it!
 
No need to run bushings under the mounting with all the other bushings around.

Really hard to truly isolate those mounts anyway unless it is designed to do so from the get go.

You should call your mounting Voltron, why cause its super bad ass :D
 
You darn kids and those newfangled words... I had to look it up..:doah:

1. ridonk 51 up, 5 down
A word used to describe the stupidest shizzle one could ever imagine. Ridonk applies to one's personality, if their actions merit it. It's more ridiculous than ridiculous, and even one step above ridonculous.
Wes: Dude, I was ****in runnin from the cops and **** for an hour before i realized that they were chasing someone else.
Katie: That's ridonk. Dumbass.

2. Ridonk 25 up, 8 down
When something, someone, or any situation is excessively ridiculous that the word ridiculous loses its meaning.
"I saw this girl today who was so ugly that it made me cry. it was ridonk"


3. ridonk 14 up, 6 down
A jacked-up version of 'ridiculous.'
"He's gonna call after 11 pm on a Friday? That's ridonk!"


I am learning though. My kids are teaching me via text..:haha:
 
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