FE446 exhaust material question..
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Lead Driver
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FE446 exhaust material question..
One of my electric cut-out vlaves broke recently. I cannot find the orginal cut-out caps. I used a piece of what appears to be 1/4" lead plate to fabricate a cap (2.5" cut out cover). Is there any danger in running this way for a while? I need my truck to be in legal mode for a bit!
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Originally Posted by gtex
One of my electric cut-out vlaves broke recently. I cannot find the orginal cut-out caps. I used a piece of what appears to be 1/4" lead plate to fabricate a cap (2.5" cut out cover). Is there any danger in running this way for a while? I need my truck to be in legal mode for a bit!
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Lead Driver
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I was lucky to have the plate laying around. Lead is also very soft to drill through and it makes a great soft sealing surface....Just wish I cold find the original covers....I'm so disorganized :-(
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one of your electric ones broke? what happend? i was thinkin of going with those so i could have it really quiet or really loud. have yo uhad any problems with them? other then this what brand are they?
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Lead Driver
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these are McCord Power Plates. the actual valve broke off the rotating axle. The weld just gave up... I'm a little dissapointed. But, they may have experinced some extra stress when the motor mount came undone at the track wed.
