FatherSonSS

Welding my exhaust up! Its 3in (or slightly larger to slip over) mandrel bends the whole way through. I started with fake cats and some Borla's (which are for sale now) but they were wayyyyyyy too loud, 3in pipe really makes some noise. Now I'm doing headers > a set of race bullets (which look enough like cats that I'm good in Texas) > X-Pipe which does a surprisingly good job of muffling sound > cutouts > Hooker Max Flow Mufflers, which are the quietest no baffle muffler according to numerous sources and I can attest they do a great job and quieting everything down > out right in front the rear wheel. Really enjoyed welding all this up its a fun thing for someone with OCD to do and I'm extremely happy with how it all turned out with the 4 mufflers and x-pipe the sound is incredible. There is something about the Hooker's that make them quiet at idle and cruising but when you open it up they give you a nice growl the sound is exactly what I would do if I had the means to make my own muffler/sound. I went to the junkyard and got some stock hangers that way if I ever need to replace them I know just to buy the stock ones. Have 3 v-bands in there so I can easily remove the exhaust and do whatever. Heres the pics!!



Here are the original parts I was going to go with but... not a good call on my part way too loud







Heres the new mufflers





Heres the bullets getting the V-band welded up. Someone drained my argon -_- so I had to weld these with flux core, no biggie tho because I was planning on grinding down all the welds anyways, I'm going to smooth all the welds out than ceramic coat it and it will look like its one long pipe the whole way through





Here it is tacked up trying to figure out clearances and what not I spent way too long staring at this trying to decide what to do







Heres a bend for the V-Band and some initial grinding





Got some 1/2 rod at home depot to form the hangers from





Not a very good torch this took awhile





This little bender put out for sure





Forming the hanger





heres one of the hangers completed




More pics to follow....





-Matt

FFDP

iTrader: (2)

Holy jeebus picture size batman lol.

Looks like you're getting it figured out there.


And is that seriously spray foam on top of the transmission?? Whats up with that?

FatherSonSS

On my computer today the images resized automatically, which surprised me because they usually don't. Are they still showing up huge for you ???


Yep and having fun doing it.

Haha it's cuz that transmission and that truck were never meant to be together !! These pics are several week old now I've since made my permanent solution and it blocks sound sooooo much better I'll post up a pic when I'm under there next.

-Matt

Badasschevillac

iTrader: (1)

Nice thread and good write up. Looks good!

Still have those borlas?

Kyle@Roush/SLP

Who sells those fake cats ?

FatherSonSS

I appreciate it and yes I do PM me if you want them


-Matt

FatherSonSS

Frozen Boost they make some cool stuff

High Flow Cat


And to the spray foam comment





-Matt