Richie G

I've gotten it out for the first ride today and it was magnificent. No stress, no flex, no fuss. I will look into the clamps @L24ITS suggested as an alternative to the smaller clamps provided by RC just to form a better seal at the mating joint.

I noticed you used some angle iron straps to get to the support over the diff. Did you find the bolts that came with it were long enough to accommodate the hanger? I would like to use the hangers that came with this setup but swap out these clamps for the ones provided. Just not sure it will all line up. I probably wont get to this for a few months as I'm moving out of my house and storing the car for a bit.

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@L24ITS Looks great, do you have a link to what you bought for those clamps?

I actually got it done with just stands in the back but im not a big guy so wiggling here and there made it work.

And once again same experience with Max. We went back and forth about instruction and how helpful they would be. Don't get me wrong, he was extremely easy to work with and very customer oriented but what I got was old pics from a rusted out car lol:

For whatever reason, when I hung the muffler from the original factory mounts, I was actually about two inches short of meeting those pipes together properly. What I would call the female side that was notched, actually had exposed opening, where you could see the edge of the Midpipe, so I had to seat the muffler section deeper. And then use some additional rubber mounts to build up where the hangars were for the muffler. Now I have to be honest, I don't know if the previous owner rewielded those brackets for the muffler hanger in the wrong position or not. Maybe that's what started all my problems in the first place. I'm happy with how it's all set up right now. But once I get a full road test, I'll make any adjustments as necessary.

That's great. So it seems you did have the exact same experience as me. I had told max, about four inches of extra length would be best based on what I observed. I also took some measurements and gave him some advice around bolt selection up above the diff so that you could actually install the hangers without having to drop it. I found M10 1.25 16 mm short bolts that were the perfect size to get the brackets on without removing the cross member.

WOW! awesome job, looks amazing.

Thanks, I fully restored the interior and the engine bay but still need to do the undercarriage stuff. Its far from perfect but I'm really proud of all the work I did as a DIY kind of guy. I'm still learning so much about the car and this place and others like it is the reason why. Thanks to all that have helped me on the way. SN 486 that's amazing, I'd love to get something that low and do it proper now that I've been through this one. I'm pretty good at the assembly side of things but wouldn't have the skills to do a bare metal ground up restoration not yet anyways :-)

lol. Its funny you say that, as part of my brake work i've spilled a little and you're right it sure works well lol.

Not sure I ever posted the finished product. Completely spaced on that. I'm still working on finishing a few other things so haven't gotten to really fire it up yet. Carbs need rework and the brakes are all being redone before I can really test it out. I do have to say other than the fitment issue with the sections mating properly the rest was a snap for someone like me, the hangers and everything worked great. I may choose to get that section reworked at some point with some type of extension or cut and weld if need be but I'll cross that when i need to.

not really no. Basically they said you don't have to fully seat the pipes to make a good seal. I was like that sounds a little sketchy. Best of luck to you, let me know how it goes. Maybe my setup was weird due to PO mucking something up but I have a stock engine and it all seemed to line up pretty well so i didn't expect any surprises until i had one lol. Maybe I would have been ok with the tips where they were but it just felt like the age old exhaust into the cabin was something to deal with or an issue with exhaust up under the cowl all the time in traffic.

@L24ITS Wondering if you may run into the issue I had with mine. For me, once assembled I found that the mid pipe to tail pipe section could benefit from a longer tail pipe to allow for a deeper insertion of the mid pipes to the tail pipes to properly seat those together. My exhaust tip was barely out of the cowl so I had to compromise a little bit and slide the tail pipe section back towards the rear which then exposed a little bit of a leak which i had to seal with some exhaust tape around the section where they join together by the hangers.

I did not but they are not acting on the jet it's fully seated all the way to top even before I started leaning it out by raising the mixture screw. I'll try that though this weekend.