allow me to give some ideas here?
#1 check the motor mounts for being somewhat compressed from time. they do
this but there is not much to compress to start with.
#2 ride height! sagged springs or lowered suspension. this would account
for a very low exhaust to ground clearance. there is one salvation wich
would require you to measure the pipe to floor distance and figure how much
you would like to reduce the distance. remember the heat fron a front pipe
to oclose to the floor is almost enough to melt sneakers andvery
uncomfortable on long drives! remove the pipe and cut out the needed
section on the down section weld back together and reinstall. i had to do
this to a longman header for my bugeye back in 78. i still have the same
header on the car. my trade off was an incredibly hot driver's footwell on
long drives. and i mean almost unbearable with carpet and padding! but my
header and pipe are less than half an inch from the floor for needed
clearance. my car has cut front coils and spreen's offset lowered rear
springs in it. so it's low. and it handles apropriately! :)
the pipe drags on speed bumps.
chuck.
----- Original Message -----
From "David Lieb" <dbl at chicagolandmgclub.com>
To: "Spridget List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 8:44 PM
Subject: Exhaust Pipe Clearance
> Now I am puzzled (again). My Ebay Midget (1972) had a damaged exhaust pipe
> right where it makes the bend below the manifold to head to the back of
the
> car. I didn't think much of it, replaced it with the one from another
> project car, but that one looked like a muffler shop special and the
> clearance under the bend was not good -- scraped a lot. So I ordered a new
> pipe from PPP, got a new muffler from dE and today was nice enough out (in
> the 40s, WoW!) that I was out laying on the cold concrete putting the new
> pipe on.
> Everything fit fine, but it still looks as if the pipe has more clearance
> from the bottom of the car than necessary and less clearance from the road
> than I would like. It doesn't look that far off on my 1974, but that poor
> thing is so bent up that it is not a good reference. I am not ready to
throw
> a header onto it yet. Is there anything I should be looking at? Engine
> mounts look normal. Am I just paranoid?
> David Lieb
> Exhausted 1972 RWA
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