Got Exhaust

Several weeks ago, ordered tubing from Summit to fabricate the exhaust from the headers back, and a pair of Flowmaster Hushpower mufflers, to give the car a tone a bit more civilized than the standard Flowmaster sound. After a failed attempt to buy a welder (Guys never bring your conscience, I mean wife, along on a tool shopping expedition), decided to see if my former neighbor would do the job.

Aaron runs Orange County Hot Rods, and does mobile fabrication. Three and a half hours after he arrived, we had the whole system done. My sole fabrication contribution was cutting down a couple chunks of 3 1/2 tubing to make the sleeves for the joint to be able to disassemble the system at the stainless band clamps. It took well under two J bends from the collectors to the mufflers, and a couple 4' long chunks of 2 1/2" aluminized tubing. The tailpipes were salvaged from the last system - they were in great shape and worked after a mild trim for the new muffler locations.

I had a can of high temp silver exhaust paint, so after Aaron left, I cleaned things up and painted all the tubes.