Exhaust union?
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Laughing Gas
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Exhaust union?
Just musing during my lunch break. I have a new dual exhaust set up hooked to stock manifolds. Each side is welded in one long piece. I want to install some shorty headers which will require cutting the pipe somewhere between the trans Xmember and the mufflers and make a new section up to the collectors. It would be nice if the new sections could be unbolted and removed in the future. Is there some kind of bolt together union I can weld on at the muffler ends?
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Just musing during my lunch break. I have a new dual exhaust set up hooked to stock manifolds. Each side is welded in one long piece. I want to install some shorty headers which will require cutting the pipe somewhere between the trans Xmember and the mufflers and make a new section up to the collectors. It would be nice if the new sections could be unbolted and removed in the future. Is there some kind of bolt together union I can weld on at the muffler ends?
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Laughing Gas
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The later model Ford vehicles use a band style clamp rather than the old school muffler clamps that dug in to the pipe. So the pipes could be taken apart real easy in the future if needed. If possible I would cut your pipes as close to the engine as you can. Make up different "head pipes". Then use those band clamps to connect pipe to pipe. I'll see if I can post a pic of an exhaust system and edit it in here in a bit.
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One option I was thinking was I could keep the original front portion of pipe if I ever decide to put the stock manifolds on.
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Laughing Gas
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Sorry HIO, replied to previous post before I read yours. Got an online supplier for those clamps?
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Summit Racing... just get the house-branded ones. Works great... totally beats those U-clamps that crimp the tubing (like pictured above!!)
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