Bagged 05 Suburban

[LooseCannon]

The exhaust hit the rearend when aired out so I lengthened it about 3" in order to raise and clear the axle tubes. I used pieces from a 3" "J" pipe from Jegs.

Pieces cut and tacked together for fitment. If you look close you'll notice that they're cut at an angle to provide the necessary bend for clearance.


Had to drop the exhaust to fully weld around the pipe.


The "U" bend over the rearend is within inches of the passenger rear bag so I wrapped that portion of the exhaust in high temp header wrap, probably overkill but better safe. Also, the exhaust was too long to install as one piece so I added a collector to install as two pieces.


The exhaust tip hung down too low and stuck out too far for my taste.


So I cut it off and built a new piece from the "J" pipe. It looks MUCH cleaner now than from the factory.


Now that the exhaust is complete I wish that I would've listened to my wife and had an exhaust shop do the work. Working under it while on jack stands and installing removing the exhaust multiple times was not fun .