Side Exhaust

I've always wanted to have that race car side exhaust on my car. I once thought about getting boom tubes, the ones Nascars use that are square. Problem was my full length subframe connectors would push that pipe down even further to the ground and would not look right. It needed to be tight up against the body. Other option would be to run it up inside the car. Lot of work and planning involved in that so it never got done, until today.

I thought about it for months on how it should look and so I bought pieces here and there. The hardest part is doing all this in my driveway. Even though this was months of planning it took me about 24 hours of work to finish. I decided to run both exhaust pipes that are 2.5" into one 3.5". This would result in less time and money. Also remember this is a straight through type of system. The mufflers are Magnaflow race units that have no baffles. Pretty much straight pipes so there is no concern about restrictions. All the turns in the system were done with 90 degree mandrel bent pipe that I chopped up in any way I needed.

The plate on the outside of the car is polished SS. The exhaust tip is also polished SS. The plate is held in place with SS rivets. I must mention that most of the system is welded together but I did set it up in a way that it can be taken apart easily for service to it or the car.




















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Victor (goofyfeet) Oliver
PBMC Board Member
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Finished wrapping up the inside pipe last night. Now all I have to do is replace the pass side interior panel that I had to destroy in order to remove it. My custom roll cage was not built with the removal of those panels in mind. I'll have to think of something in order to put one back.

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Victor (goofyfeet) Oliver
PBMC Board Member
#95

Small mod to the heat extractor hood vent


Carmine=wpbcobra recently installed a gt500 hood vent on his sn95 racecar too only he went further with it. He cut out that honeycomb area for the most airflow possible. I thought this was a great idea so I did it to mine. Should work way better now at extracting hot air from the radiator and under the hood.


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Victor (goofyfeet) Oliver
PBMC Board Member
#95

Custom Brake Cooling Duct Plates


A while back I purchased some from a company called Quantum Motorsports. They were nice but their design sucked. They were angled in a way that forced the hose right into the back of the rim. Over a short period of time they eventually ripped. Those hoses are not cheap btw's. Here's a pic of the driver side one. You can see how much it's angled that it's basically pointing to the back side of the rim if it were there.





I sold those cooling plates and ended up not running anything for a while.



I had a good idea of what they should look like so before I finished school I took the opportunity of using their equipment to fab up my own. I made them out of aluminum and tig welded it. All my measuring and ideas payed off cause it fit like a glove. To compliment the new plates I purchased new cooling hoses. Happy to report the car once again has brake cooling.









Here you can see the angle of the new plates and how they now point the duct straight out from the center of the rim. Plenty of room now.

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Victor (goofyfeet) Oliver
PBMC Board Member
#95

That's awesome dude! Nothing like getting the satisfaction of making your own parts. Your welds look awesome. Few people outside the gear head world have appreciation for how hard it is to weld aluminum well.

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86 Notch Project. P1SC'd 306 SBF

Thanks man. Yea aluminum is tough. Takes lots of practice and a steady hand. Even harder to do it in a circle but it's a solid weld and I wasn't to concerned on looks since I knew no one would ever see them. This was technically only the second thing I put together out of aluminum. I just graduated from school doing 2 years of night classes in Welding Technologies. It covered every aspect of welding but I really wanted to learn how to tig weld since that was the only one I've never used. We only got to play with aluminum for about 3 weeks just putting little pieces together.

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Victor (goofyfeet) Oliver
PBMC Board Member
#95

Side Exhaust complete

I completely forgot to post up any info of the finished side exhaust. I did end up going to the scrap yard and getting another back seat pass side interior panel because I had to destroy the original one taking it out. I cleaned up and then cut in two the new piece. The made it so the cut section ended up right behind and in line with that section of the roll cage bar so it would not be seen. Once the interior pieces were back in the cabin it was much more quiet. Here's a pic of the cleaned up and cut panel.



First day that I was able to run the car there was allot of smoke because the wrap was burning off all the crap and oil and whatever was there. I've driven the car many times since I finished it and even ran it for the Mustang Triathlon with no issues. I did make a little video back when I finished it to show off the sound. Very happy with the outcome.

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Victor (goofyfeet) Oliver
PBMC Board Member
#95