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Thanks Mike, you WAY inspired me on the exhaust setup. Only wish I could machine the bits you made and TIG the whole thing in stainless! Yours is stellar. Appreciate you checking in.
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The builder kit I got is awesome. You'd for sure appreciate the quality. Bends are spot-on, de-burred perfectly and lightly coated with oil. The finish looks perfect and they practically gift wrapped each piece. I got the box one day after I ordered. Couldn't be happier for under $200 and I'll have left overs! Thanks Joe! It isn't science but it's working for me. Quote:
Not much tonight, didn't light the fire until after 8:00. Got some kool tools off the brown truck, tacked up the pieces I fitted last night and started on the passenger side. Little tweaking left on that, then I can start on the tee's and the balance pipe.
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Good Lookin' stuff, John! Glad you got Knuckles' crap outta the way and you're back on the horse! (Did a bit of the same over the weekend!) That kit does look like a deal.
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Nice job on the exhaust, looks really good
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looking Sweeet
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Thanks everyone! I appreciate you all crawling along here with me. NFL Playoffs put a real ding in progress this weekend but I did manage to move forward some on Saturday. Finished fitting up the passenger side pipe through the cross member and started on the H pipe. I'm coping the balance pipe to the side of the header pipe rather than trying to make the true "tee" intersection here. Once coped, I'll mark the header pipe and cut the weird shaped hole out, leaving the line for an "overlapped" kinda joint as apposed to a real miter. Just didn't see any need to fuss it in perfect here without a badsaw. My jig-saw and a metal blade work perfect - buttah. Very minimal filing to get it nice and tight.
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Did a little more tonight... Better pics than my yellow phone photos too. Fit up the balance pipe and got it all tacked. Marked my length at the cross member and pulled the whole "H" out. Traced out my coped joints and pulled it apart. I'll cut the holes, weld all my butt joints and throw it back in to re-tack the balance pipe. Then I'll pull it back out to weld that out.
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Few more...
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Excellent fit there, John. Those joints should weld up really nice. Shaping up to be a free flowing exhaust. Have you figured out yet how far back you're going to run the pipe?
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Nice work. That fit up is Slick!
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Thanks guys! Sure wish I was welding like you two. Nice, nice stuff outta your shops. Me -->
Got the H-pipe done. Can't say enough about that little jigsaw. I bet I could do five of these on one blade (Milwaukee). It's like a laser! I wire-wheeled my joints on the outside to get the coating off but it's still nasty stuff to weld. Splatters like crazy and it's really smokey. My little Hobart only has 1,2,3,4 and analog wire speed. Loaded with pretty big wire too but I think it turned out well. It'd run continuous but trying to lay 1" beads end to end while I repositioned looked like hell, plus I was blowing holes here and there, so I switched to zap, zap, zap. So, I've got some hangers to fab, try that expander dealio and build some offsets to my "muffs". More hangers then.... I'd sure love to go over but I think I'll turn down (take the low road), splayed out a tad. In the next photo I still lack the 1" block for pinion angle tuning that'll yield the "traditional" 4.5/6" drop. There's zero load on the springs except the frame. I'm sure I'll need a C-notch. Bed wood contacts the frame rail there, so about 5" to work with. 2-1/2" pipe with 1" wood clearance only yields about a 1" notch with some wiggle room. Aside from mashing a larger tube down to a 1-1/2" thick oval and trying to blend that into 2-1/2" round, I just don't think it's happnin. I've got that killer No Limit panhard rod that mounts at the axle centerline. That side will need a longer notch. I've also got his rear shock mounts that put the uppers behind where the notch will be. Makes it even harder to get the tailpipes where I want them and it's gonna have to be a stout notch to take the shock load. Whew...
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Clearance shot... Stupid camera/tape angle, axle tube is about 5" from bottom of the frame and frame section is about 5" wide at that point. Should read about 0", 5", 10" with bed wood layin' on the frame right there.
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Very clean work on the exhaust pipe fitment.
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01-14-2015, 10:01 PM | #13 |
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Thanks Mike, you set a high bar in this department!
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Well tonight was quick. Built a couple offsets and broke my HFT pipe expander. I think the actual tooling will hold up but the nut and screw are China's finest lemme tell ya. Didn't even come close and I pulled the threads outta the nut.
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Got the pipes back to the muffs and I'm on the brink of going over. Mathematically it still just doesn't add up but it sure looks like I could pull it off. I'd have to notch the x-member just past the axle because of the panhard rod but I'll be A-O-K with that if I can squeeze them between the wood and the axle tube. I'm going to hold up here and build the 1" blocks to set my pinion angle. I'll then look at the c-notches and shocks.
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Hrmmrm, I dunno. Maybe shorter mufflers? Looks good! I dusted mine with a 50 grit roloc on a zip sander. Welded up good. Keep it up!
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That is some good lookin exhaust! Better than the $600 job I had done on mine and I though that was good!
Keep da pics comin bro!
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Another lull in progress. Brake job and plugs on an '05 F150, bunch of other tickey-tack stuff on other projects, then I scored my new whip on Friday! Spent yesterday and today un-accessorizing and cleaning it up. '12 with 30k miles. Promise to get back on track with the build by this weekend. Got a few sheckles and will forge ahead.
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OOOOOOh, spiffy! Gonna yank some trees up the mountain with that? Congrats!
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What??? No under hood shots. No vid of roasting the tires up the beloved hill with the '12 ???
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I sure like the new one but I sure miss my old one too. I had it pretty dialed but it was becoming more work than I wanted to do with the big ticket items coming up. Trans was starting to trip out, motor sounded pretty clapped on cold start, CEL for CATs, rotten tailpipes, slip yolk trashed, interior getting pretty hashed, etc... supposed to be working on the truck titled above. The new one is getting a 2" leveling kit up front, losing the running boards and the "racing" billet fuel filler door - that's it!
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That's a great looking new truck! Congrats..
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Nice looking truck, John. We had a 2009 the same body style and color when we moved up to KC. Sold it when we decided to build the '68 and I bet I've missed it a thousand times. Very comfortable, quiet trucks with good power. Had a Nissan Titan before getting the Chevy and it couldn't stop worth a dern when pulling an RV. No problem for the Chebby though.
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Wait, what? What's all this talk about a Blazer? You and Jonboy with the new sleds, my, my.
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Thanks for the truck props boys! Although I'm suffrin' from a bad case of buyer's remorse, it is a sweet ride. Don't really like that four cylinder mode to save gas tho. Wonder if I can kill that?
See you made it over to Punching Bag Chip. We'll just keep that thread alive for the Blazer tales.
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