Sidepipe evolution

[indianamoon]

Always preferred the look of the street cobras, but the one that came my way wasn’t. Removed the roll bar a few years back and now it’s time to do something about the side pipes. These pipes are rusted, dented, have the normal 4 pipes coming thru the body that always collect a bunch of stuff, and most importantly, are WAY too quiet.

Didn’t want the bodywork and paint needed in order to go under-car exhaust, so decided to fab a replacement set of side pipes and paint flat black. Bought a nice used set on here and will modify them. Cut ‘em up, shortened the collectors as much as I could, bought a couple of stainless mandrel bends, some proper isolation bushings, and had at it.

[indianamoon]

I cut the 4 exhaust tubes off the flanges, ground the welds, and removed the remnants of the tubes. Cut the collectors off the mufflers and attached them to the flanges, welded, and machined square both ends.
Figured the offset from the body and attached the proper mockup foam blocks to the mufflers and pipes with stretch wrap (love that stuff!!!!).

Bolted the isolation mounts to the frame to check fit.

And cut the mandrel bends after much double-checking and hand wringing.

[Jim Vander Wal]

Interesting construction, looks like it's coming along well.

Most people complain about too loud.

Jim

[indianamoon]

Not looking for too loud, existing sidepipes are very quiet,