Pypes System
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To the OP:
I just installed that H pipe about a month ago. The crappy clamps that go in the middle of the H will leak like crazy. Get two SS 4" band clamps from NAPA and you will thank me for it. If you get any rattling after the install, check out the left hand H pipe hanger. It is real close to the tranny crossmember. I had to heat up and bend mine so it would stop rattling. Otherwise, it's actually a very good quality system.
I just installed that H pipe about a month ago. The crappy clamps that go in the middle of the H will leak like crazy. Get two SS 4" band clamps from NAPA and you will thank me for it. If you get any rattling after the install, check out the left hand H pipe hanger. It is real close to the tranny crossmember. I had to heat up and bend mine so it would stop rattling. Otherwise, it's actually a very good quality system.
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Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,358
From: City of God
o/r x mm and slp lm going to be very similar withthe H as far as rasp goes I dont think its is raspy at all think it sounds sick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMct0EiuMg
Last edited by TOMBSTANG; Dec 9, 2008 at 04:13 PM.
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Joined: Aug 2007
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From: Orlando, Florida
fullboogie-Thanks for the heads up, but the H-Pipe will be fully welded up so the clamps will be cut off anyway.
As for the trumpeting, I have heard this set-up with an O/R X (not referring to Tombstang's, it's someone back at home where I live) and it trumpeted to all hell which I didn't like. The H-Pipe is supposed to be a little more mellow in that department as well as deeper. Thing is, with the harmonics of any O/R piping, you're gonna get trumpeting. With my LM's I get a very small amount of trumpeting in the low gears. My main concern with this exhaust set-up is the drone, which as I have heard there is none.
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From: NJ
Ah....CutterWolf, if you read my whole schpeal you'll see that I worte that the pipes are at home and I had my father take the pictures. He arranged them wrong and I realized that. The pictures were there just to help the visualization of the four pipes.
fullboogie-Thanks for the heads up, but the H-Pipe will be fully welded up so the clamps will be cut off anyway.
As for the trumpeting, I have heard this set-up with an O/R X (not referring to Tombstang's, it's someone back at home where I live) and it trumpeted to all hell which I didn't like. The H-Pipe is supposed to be a little more mellow in that department as well as deeper. Thing is, with the harmonics of any O/R piping, you're gonna get trumpeting. With my LM's I get a very small amount of trumpeting in the low gears. My main concern with this exhaust set-up is the drone, which as I have heard there is none.
fullboogie-Thanks for the heads up, but the H-Pipe will be fully welded up so the clamps will be cut off anyway.
As for the trumpeting, I have heard this set-up with an O/R X (not referring to Tombstang's, it's someone back at home where I live) and it trumpeted to all hell which I didn't like. The H-Pipe is supposed to be a little more mellow in that department as well as deeper. Thing is, with the harmonics of any O/R piping, you're gonna get trumpeting. With my LM's I get a very small amount of trumpeting in the low gears. My main concern with this exhaust set-up is the drone, which as I have heard there is none.
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Joined: Jun 2008
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From: Brandon, Florida
Ah....CutterWolf, if you read my whole schpeal you'll see that I worte that the pipes are at home and I had my father take the pictures. He arranged them wrong and I realized that. The pictures were there just to help the visualization of the four pipes.
fullboogie-Thanks for the heads up, but the H-Pipe will be fully welded up so the clamps will be cut off anyway.
As for the trumpeting, I have heard this set-up with an O/R X (not referring to Tombstang's, it's someone back at home where I live) and it trumpeted to all hell which I didn't like. The H-Pipe is supposed to be a little more mellow in that department as well as deeper. Thing is, with the harmonics of any O/R piping, you're gonna get trumpeting. With my LM's I get a very small amount of trumpeting in the low gears. My main concern with this exhaust set-up is the drone, which as I have heard there is none.
fullboogie-Thanks for the heads up, but the H-Pipe will be fully welded up so the clamps will be cut off anyway.
As for the trumpeting, I have heard this set-up with an O/R X (not referring to Tombstang's, it's someone back at home where I live) and it trumpeted to all hell which I didn't like. The H-Pipe is supposed to be a little more mellow in that department as well as deeper. Thing is, with the harmonics of any O/R piping, you're gonna get trumpeting. With my LM's I get a very small amount of trumpeting in the low gears. My main concern with this exhaust set-up is the drone, which as I have heard there is none.
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Joined: Sep 2007
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From: Orlando FL
I installed those pypes before and one section of the H is supposed to be smaller so it slips in the other one.
Well it wouldn't (too tight) so I cut it short and weld flush.
Also, the clamps provided are not that great, very approximate.
You have to work at it to have a no leak system.
But that's OK, the factory double bolt clamps also fail to impress me.
Just bring all that sh#t to the shop and we'll put the magic touch on it.
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Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 518
From: Orlando, Florida
The only way to deal with that stupid H section! Got to be welded...
I installed those pypes before and one section of the H is supposed to be smaller so it slips in the other one.
Well it wouldn't (too tight) so I cut it short and weld flush.
Also, the clamps provided are not that great, very approximate.
You have to work at it to have a no leak system.
But that's OK, the factory double bolt clamps also fail to impress me.
Just bring all that sh#t to the shop and we'll put the magic touch on it.
I installed those pypes before and one section of the H is supposed to be smaller so it slips in the other one.
Well it wouldn't (too tight) so I cut it short and weld flush.
Also, the clamps provided are not that great, very approximate.
You have to work at it to have a no leak system.
But that's OK, the factory double bolt clamps also fail to impress me.
Just bring all that sh#t to the shop and we'll put the magic touch on it.
I'll most likely just have it welded at a shop at home when I'm down cause if it rattles and I can't solve it, then I can't stand driving 3 hours to get back up here with the exhaust rattling. If I don't get it welded I will let you know.