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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