Before I get down to my real question, has anyone ever heard the sound of
a B engine with only the downpipe on it? It is such a beautiful, albeit
loud, sound. The real question is this: How does everyone keep the
exhaust pipes together underneath the car. I have an old thrush exhaust,
that looks similar to the PECO system. It is one muffler/resonator in the
rear with no front muffler. My problem is that I can not hold the front
joint together. There is a joint in the pipes under the driver floor that
I can not keep a clamp on. standard exhaust clamps last a week because my
car drags over all the bumps and driveways that it can find. Short of
welding the joint (this would make the exhaust one peice from downpipes to
exhaust tip) what else might I try? I don't think I can find bandclamps
anywhere in that small a diameter (1.5 or 1.75 I forget) and even if I
could they still have a big block on the side where the bolts go. So now
the the three solutions everyone was gonna suggest have been addressed,
anyone have any really creative ideas that might work? TIA. I wish I
could leave it off, but my car is loud enough already, and at some point I
am going to get a ticket for it.
James Nazarian
'71 B roadster
'71 BGT rust free and burnt orange
'63 Buick 215
"Aerodynamics are for people who cannot build engines"
Enzo Ferrari
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