building a very custom exhaust

[Blazr77400]

Oh yes, I almost forgot....


If you really wheel hard, and/or have a lot of frame flex, you might want to incorporate a couple of those "braided looking" flex tube exhaust sections into your design too....

If your truck is flexing, but your exhaust CAN'T....you are putting a lot of stress on the manifolds/headers, and you're guaranteed to crack them eventually.

Thats why you clamp the exhaust to flexible hangers, adding a flex pipe is just going to waist money and it will probably be the first thing to rust.
Most of the time a header cracks is because of poor quality.


Doing your own custom exhaust isnt that hard.

Doing your own custom exhaust that looks good, lasts a long time, and sounds good is very difficult without the know how.
I worked in my dads muffler shop for 5 years and seen how alot of stuff was done. It seemed like my dad would fix alot of peoples exhaust that thought they could do it, but couldnt, including other exhaust shops(midas,meinekie).
It will be worth the extra money to have an experienced shop install your exhaust. It will look better, sound better, and probably last alot longer too.

At alot of the local car shows I will be looking at different vehicles that just look awesome, until you look at the exhaust, it just looked like somebody through it on there. Then you look at the car next to it that has an exhaust that was thought out, it really make a difference in my eye.

 

[Thunder]

Why dont you just buy the whole Flowmaster Cat back system? All mandral bent tubing. Mounts to the stock hangers. The Americam Thunder 2 systems sound good. I have installed Flowmaster Exhaust systems in a few trucks. It is way easier and costs about the same as if you bend/weld it up yourself.

 

[TJS]

Get your cat conv. on e-bay if you are runnning one. I got a 3" for 24.99. I have headers and I hate them. I am changing back to a y-pipe and 88 TBI manifolds (e-bay again) I am going to be converting to TBI. I then got a gibson muffer (20.00 used 3" in 3" out). I went to a local scrap metal yard and found mandrel bent 316 stainless that came off a tanker truck for milk or food. I got a lot of this stuff for around 40.00. I am just going to make up a single system. I can TIG so it is no problem. Here are a couple of shots I have so far.

T.J.
www.tjsperformance.com

 

[adamforsythe]

Hello,
]Sweet, thanks for the ideas.
Thanks
Adam

Get your cat conv. on e-bay if you are runnning one. I got a 3" for 24.99. I have headers and I hate them. I am changing back to a y-pipe and 88 TBI manifolds (e-bay again) I am going to be converting to TBI. I then got a gibson muffer (20.00 used 3" in 3" out). I went to a local scrap metal yard and found mandrel bent 316 stainless that came off a tanker truck for milk or food. I got a lot of this stuff for around 40.00. I am just going to make up a single system. I can TIG so it is no problem. Here are a couple of shots I have so far.

T.J.
www.tjsperformance.com