Header modification

239 easy steps in only 6 hours!  

Step 1: Realize that you have a fitment "issue" (note header trying to go through trans)



Step 2: chop out wedges and bits





Step 3: Fab up insert bits from sheet metal and pipe





Step 4: Find that round pipe with dimples just don't conform to "D" ports shape



Step 6: Proceed to heat and beat pipe by hand until it cooperates.



Step 7 through 239: Proceed to weld, grind, reweld, regrind, until the pipes are smooth (which these aren't yet) then get it re-coated



Easy, right!  

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What project is that from ?

Funny...

Car-2-Lo wrote: Tell us more... What project is that from ?

Fiero308 wrote: Boy that sure looks familiar......... Nice looking job Doc!

There's your answer, Johnny!  

 

Well, been a while so...

Here's a quicky pic of the whole 'family' of pipes making up the whole exhaust system.
Tell ya - it gives me an even greater level of respect for the exhaust shop guys that do this stuff day in day out - and they have to do it on a complete and assembled car!

Everything below is now sitting at the coaters getting redone.  Should look awesome when it's all back in place and tied together (there's a surprise attached to that BTW!).




All of the above (with the exception of the wifes shoe in the corner, and to an extent the headers) was hand fabbed, right down to the muffler.