Nice find on the welder. Gotta love Harbor freight for inexpensive tools that you won't use everyday.


Is that a hacksaw I see in the background? Don't tell me you've been cutting all of this pipe with a hacksaw?!?! Hopefully you picked up a pipe cutter while you were at Harbor Freight or are at least using a reciprocating saw with bimetal blade.


Great progress though... Really love how this is coming along!

 

Hack saw was to finish cuts made with 4" angle grinder. I can't make square cuts with it. I'm going to look for a pipe cutter tonight. I will be making a beveled cut... will the pipe cutter you mention, do that?

I have a table saw, but the blade is probably expensive... oh! I've also been cutting with a reciprocal saw and bimetallic blades, but the stainless exhaust wears their teeth off...

So far, the pipe cuts are the weakest link... wait... last night, my first stab at wire welding. Whew... ugliness! I will send pics of that nastiness.

May use pipe clamps... as a last ditch

thanks again

more later

 

I've put a metal cutting blade on my Rigid miter saw (for straight and beveled cuts) for cutting pipe in the past. This works well but I'm told it will eventually kill the saw (most likely bearing failure) with continued use as a pipe cutter. I used a 10" blade I got from these guys. They also make a 7-1/4" blade that could be used on a circular saw. 10" Stainless Steel Cutting Blade- Evolution Power Tools

 

 

Coming along nicely! Although it looks like you might run into some fitment issues where the flex sections connect to the crossover pipe. DO you plan to modify the bends right before the crossover pipe or are you hoping that there's enough flex in those flex sections to compensate for the different pipe spacing?

 

I have no words to say anymore....GT Haus paired with Stillen HFC's

 

Perhaps this is the solution? Pardon my 2 cents, and the crude photoshop hackjob.

 

Good call, Andy! That's an extra weld, but I would say that's probably his best bet for mating those pipe up. It would essentially both shorten the pipe and widen the distance between them.

 

I have 2 . . . painfully obnoxious. You couldn't pay me to drive around with that exhaust setup.

 

Haha it's not for everyone, that's for sure

 

Here is my exhaust clip. Updated with youtube link

 

Frankroshi,

check out my build thread and you will see a very similar setup that I welded to the OEM mufflers to keep things in check.

 

Put on Ark for my X today.

 

I almost went with Ark for my Z, but FI has my heart! Congrats!!

 

Only option for full catback for an X afaik, but a nice one so it's all good .