[Roadsters] Exhaust problems - the cutting - X

[Keith0alan at aol.com]

One problem is that the stock pipes are pretty skinny. Go with bigger pipes  
and there can be problems. Here is what I did. At the header I installed a 
short  piece of the stainless mesh flex pipe. Then I went through the X with 1 
3/4  pipe. This was hard mounted so it can not vibrate and rub. The flex piece 
allows  the engine to move. Then a Sonic turbo muffler. Then 2" over the axle 
and out  the back. I rubber mounted the 2" section. One thing to watch for is 
the parking  brake rod. The first one I did was too close behind the axle and 
it hit the  parking brake rod when I dropped the car off the jack stands. I 
haven't had any  exhaust rattles since I installed this system.
 
keith
 
 
In a message dated 11/25/2008 5:10:45 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
nmleeds at mindspring.com writes:

I  finally got my smelling beast up on a lift to find out why the  exhaust
wasn't leaving out the back of the pipe. The answer,  unsurprisingly, was
that there was a leak. Here's the frustration: the leak  was where the
exhaust pipe passed through he X support in the frame.  Apparently the pipe
bangs against that x, and cuts itself; replacing the  pipe will set me up for
the same problem in two months.

Before I go  and replace that section of pipe and wait for it to leak again
in 2 months,  I though I'd ask if anyone else has had this problem, and found
a  solution?

Nathaniel Leeds
'69 2000
(a.k.a.  wheezy)
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