Too Loud

[Michael C Henry]

I bought a finished car in Reno in 99. The headers were all wrapped in fiberglass tape . They were great looking and underhood temps were not that much. I drove the car home on a tripp permitt from Nevada. A few days later while on a quick ride #7 header blew out at the first bend out of the header. Fiberglass shreds wer everywhere. When I unwraped that and other pipes, ther were so many cracks that it was pointless to try to save them. So I set about having another whole set of headers and sidepipes made. I found out that the fiberglass tape keeping all the heat in the pipe helped cause that condition. So I looked around and setteled on ceramic coating as an alternative. As I looked through the Revised Code of Washington for noise standards . All I found was that I could not amplify the exhaust noise level. So being so old and experienced and knowing that a Cop can hold you up. and if so I'd have to do something to show I'd change something in order to comply. I figured I'd make the exhaust system mechanicaly accessable. So I setteled upon Burn's Stainless Steel exhaust parts. I went with 3 1/2" "V" clamps and flanges and had them tigged to the collectors and mufflers and turnout pipes. I used the Car Chemistry disk units in the collectors with nuts welded to the disk units and washers on the collectors to form a flat outside bolting surface. End result was I ended up with three different muffler sets Original,Lobak, and 3 1/3" open pipe. I can add or remove the disk units. I can turn the turn out pipes anyway I want. I can even mount the turnout pipes directly to the collectors if I wish. All ceramic coated and covered with the perferated SS heatsheilds. No grinding or further welding required.