stack idea, too cheap?
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stack idea, too cheap?
i was getting some building materials from lowes this afternoon and passed through the aisle where they keep water heaters and vent pipe. i got to looking and their pipe goes up to 5" and they carry elbows that you can adjust accordingly and its made for heat, its exhaust piping for like wood burning stoves and such. o yea and they carry flex pipe for like $10 for a 5' section!
i was thinking in could run all this vent pipe and hide it behind my toolbox and then get a set of clean chrome stacks. the whole setup prolly cost me no more than $200 and thats on the high side!
am i thinking too cheap here or do you think it could be done? and effectively?
-cutts-
i was thinking in could run all this vent pipe and hide it behind my toolbox and then get a set of clean chrome stacks. the whole setup prolly cost me no more than $200 and thats on the high side!
am i thinking too cheap here or do you think it could be done? and effectively?
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Thin metal and not the right stuff to stand up to weather, rock dings, constant movement due to engine torquing and such. Check how hard it is to dent a piece of exhaust pipe and how easy to dent the vent pipe.
Too many seams, not able to stand up to pressure, too many leaks.
I would not if it were me.
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Too many seams, not able to stand up to pressure, too many leaks.
I would not if it were me.
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Heck, I've always wondered why I could not use 4" galvanized water pipe. I have access to plenty and I could just thread it all together. That should hold up a long time and be awful cheap
What do you guys think??
What do you guys think??
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Originally Posted by 97-7.3dump
Heck, I've always wondered why I could not use 4" galvanized water pipe. I have access to plenty and I could just thread it all together. That should hold up a long time and be awful cheap
What do you guys think??
What do you guys think??
As long as the inside bore is big enough water pipe would work, just look a little - well - "fabricated" so to speak.
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Had a buddy who built an exhaust for his F250 back in the seventies out of thick wall stainless steel 2 1/2" electrical conduit - it is probably still sitting wherever the truck wound up, everything else gone but the "H" pipe duals still like new.
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I could hide most of it under and put a 8" CHROME TIP on the end...........I'd better cover up my neck-the red is showin
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I could hide most of it under and put a 8" CHROME TIP on the end...........I'd better cover up my neck-the red is showin
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Originally Posted by 97-7.3dump
Heck, I've always wondered why I could not use 4" galvanized water pipe. I have access to plenty and I could just thread it all together. That should hold up a long time and be awful cheap
What do you guys think??
What do you guys think??
WARNING when you heat galvanized pipe up and it burns away one of the neat little by-products is something called mustard gas. I would not recommend doing this with a piece of four inch, 1 inch off a lawnmower is one thing, your family driver setting at idle in the barn after you finish the mod is going to result in a bad thing, breathing mustard gas qualifies as a bad thing.