BAM : Its good to see your post, Great work !
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BAM : Its good to see your post, Great work !
I got a little painting done after the many, many, hours of block sanding.
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I also got some goody's for the truck. I went with the Dakota Digital VHX 55-56 Belair gauges.
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Beautiful work, the hours of block sanding have paid off and I love the color. Us green guys gotta stay together :LOL: I have Speedhut gauges in my 53 but I think I'm going with Dakota's in my 71 Camaro, they look nice and are built about an hour from me.
Great work! Like Seth said looks like all the sanding really paid off.
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Beautiful color
Thanks for the update and pics Bam. It is looking beautiful. That's some nice work there.
Wow, Bam! Great to see you posting some progress!! Looks awesome!:3dSMILE::3dSMILE:
Bam, that looks incredible! The blocking definitely paid off!
Bloody gorgeous!
The guy is an artist! Well done bam!
Thanks guys its really appreciated. Its really nice to see some color on the truck. Its motivating.lol
looks great Bam . how many hours have you sat and stared at it :)
after being gray all this time it is a shock . been there . it's like "damn it's really painted ".
Cool color, looks really good.
I got a little bit done lately. I sound deaden the cab.
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I also got the engine and trans between the frame rails for the last time.
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Sweet!:):cool:
X2, here comes the payoff for all that hard work.
looking good bam . i will be starting on my 55 big window this winter hopefully .
I like the contrast and dig the raw aluminum look against that green! Very nice!
Thanks to everyone for the comments, likes, and encouragement. Its greatly appreciated. I'm really excited at this point of the build (putting it back together) its really going to be nice to start this engine with it between the frame rails. I got home yesterday and the exhaust kit was on the front porch. I need a couple of other things but I'm looking and thinking about how I want to configure the exhaust.
Looks great. Damn it's fun when you can bolt on shiny new parts to stay.
I ordered the pipes from hooker to bolt on the manifolds. They maybe were a bit expensive for what they were but they fit perfect and had the 02 bungs in them already. I don't mind paying a little extra if I'm happy with it. The sound deaden-er is worth every bit of money and time. Make sure to do the inside of the doors also, it makes a day and night difference. I love the color!
I started working on the exhaust. I got it about half way done. I stopped at where I will be connection the second half of the exhaust with marman v-band flanges.
Any way these are the components I used.
2010 Camaro Shorty Headers
2010 Camaro Flanges
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Jegs universal 2 ½ exhaust kit
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Jegs 2 ½ H-pipe kit
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Oxygen Sensors Bungs
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Marman V-band flanges will tie the front and rear sections together
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Here are some pics on the install so far.
Tack together for a test fit to the h-pipe
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Completely welded and Marman v-band flanges installed. The is the front section
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Installed in the truck.
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Very nice!!!
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Yup nice beefy welds should last a long time! One day I will take a welding class and get a 220v welder!
You sir, are a fabricator. That's the highest compliment I can offer a man.
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Thanks guys.
Looks really good. I can appreciate the work that goes into that. I just finished up some similar work on my project. Mine didn't turn out quite as nice as yours though. I really need more practice on my welds.
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Nice work! If you ever see half marmon set ups, stay away. They leak and can be a pain. Your exhaust is looking great!
Once again thanks guys
Yeah I know. I believe it is because welding can warp the flange a bit on those. I think if you weld them like you do sheet metal and body repair (very slowly and jump around a lot) they will still be okay because it will be less heat going into the flange area thus less destortion. The ones I have you weld the tube and not the flange. So the HAZ (Heat Affected Zone) will be all on the tubing and not the flange.
Very nice work. I'm doing much the same thing on my '69 stepside this winter. I've been going back and forth between that same H pipe and an X pipe. My concern is that the X might take up too much room making it tight to get the mufflers in before it has to go up over the axle.
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I done a lot of reading on the benefits of a X pipe vs. H-pipe and the H-pipe fit the needs of what I was trying to accomplish. You have to decide which setup fills your needs. You may or may not need a x pipe. Here is why I went with a H-pipe.
H-Pipe: An H-pipe is better at balancing sound and produces a more consistent, classic muscle car growl. It does less than an X-pipe in the way of balancing exhaust gasses but still flows quite well. H-pipes maintain the back-pressure necessary for torque gains earlier in the rpm band, as opposed to the top-end power seen from an X-pipe.
X-pipe: Mid-pipes built with a crossover, or "X" shaped design, purposely cross exhaust streams to even out flow and streamline exhaust gasses through the rest of the system. X-pipes are generally raspier and louder than H or Y-pipes and have been shown to provide slightly more power than their counterparts. You are likely to see most of the power gains higher in the rpm band with an X-pipe.
Completed the rear section of the exhaust. The mufflers are Dynomax race bullets.
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Mocked up
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To snake around the gas tank
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Nice work on the exhaust. I saw this a while back and it's worth a watch. I was going to try to do an x pipe on my 40 but I will probably just go H since space is an issue.
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looking good Bam Keep posting your build I like what you do !