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Re: exhaust

To: BillDentin@aol.com, rdavis4@cfl.rr.com, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: exhaust
From: WEmery7451@aol.com
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:06:09 EST
In a message dated 2/13/01 7:06:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
BillDentin@aol.com writes:

<< My own two cents is that stopping it at the middle of the car where it 
passes 
 through the frame is a BAD idea.  We run a two inch exhaust out even with 
the 
 back of the car.  Mike Belfer always felt that this was both convenient and 
 constituted a 'tuned exhaust'. >>

The ancient recommendations were to end the exhaust length just in front of 
the rear wheels for your tuning.  Things could have changed down through the 
years.

I had continuously ripped off exhaust pipes when I ran them out of the side, 
and also clear to the back of the car.  My present setup is to use a section 
of semi-flexible exhaust pipe, hand-formed to run through the frame, and 
holding it by the original clamp.  A section of straight pipe is then clamped 
onto the formed section, to extend the pipe back to just in front of the rear 
wheels.  This section is restrained by welding onto the A-frame a piece of 
flat strap metal, which runs under the pipe.  Two holes are then drilled in 
this support on each side of the pipe, and a C-clamp is bolted around the 
pipe to clamp it down on the support.

The only exhaust part that has come off of my car in the past 20 years has 
been my garage sound deadening muffler, when I forget to take it off before 
going out on the track.

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