Thanks for the kind words! Ryan, I am indeed enjoying the challenges, and if there's no challenge then you're doing something wrong!

Today was one of those look & think, then look some more and think some more. I was not happy with how close the drivers side pipe coming off of the header came to the transmission, and after considering several options, some involving multiple cuts & welds I made one small wedge cut with the band saw, pulled it together to tack it and it shifted the pipe almost an inch at the critical place, much better now.

Mounting hangers has been another area with lots of looking & thinking. Pete & Jake's uses a tubular center section and tube cross members off of the boxed frame rails, so finding a place to bolt on exhaust hangers isn't really straight forward. I finally decided that I need to weld on some reinforced tabs drilled for bolts, and that I'll need another pair of hangers (I already bought 4) to constrain the pipes movement. Came in and found the hangers and clamps that I need at Speedway, and since I'm in the first zone from them the BBT will bring them tomorrow afternoon (Bob's Your Uncle!!!)

Tomorrow will be bolting the first hangers in place, then scrounging for material to fab some mounting tabs. Thinking I may be able to use a piece of square tube cut with a hole cutter to form the radius for welding to tubes..... I was thinking of drilling & tapping the boxing plate, but it's only 1/8" and my bolts will be 3/8x16. For a hanger it'd probably be OK, but I think my spot is right at the end of the inside boxing plate, so getting a nut on the back side is easy, and removes any doubt about the threads.

Thanks for putting up with my ramblings....