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Budes45
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 Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:31 am Post subject: Home made stainless exhaust |
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| I know many of you have made their own custom exhaust, but have any of you made them out of stainless? I have been able to locate most of the material (thanks eBay) but I’m having problems finding a reducer in stainless to go from 2” to 2.5” or 3” any ideas? |
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sammyphsyco
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Budes45
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:29 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks just what I was looking for. |
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sammyphsyco
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| lets see some pics when your done. what are you using to weld it with? |
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Budes45
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: |
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lincoln 175 mig.
I'll post some pic's as I go. I'm ordering the material this week so it will be a few weeks until I post.
Thanks again for the info. |
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Ann Mezger
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:12 am Post subject: |
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If you haven't ordered it yet, check out Verocious Motorsports www.verociousmotorsports.com We fab most of our exhausts out of stainless & get just about everything we need from them at a VERY GOOD price.  The parent company is Vertex (same location) 302-472-0601. |
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Budes45
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks, just ordered what I needed. |
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Ann Mezger
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| Did Vertex / Verocious help or was I too late? |
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Budes45
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:55 am Post subject: |
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Verocious
Thanks! |
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Ann Mezger
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NICE! Glad the link helped! We've been dealing with them for a very long time & have never been disappointed. For the prices they give us, it's not worth it use anything but stainless.
BTW - they will also make custom bends & custom flanges if you need them. Not everything is listed on their site, but everything you can think of they can get or make for you. It's like a candy shop for fabricators |
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Budes45
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Well i finally got to getting this together, thanks again for you help in finding the material.
I just have some grinding and polishing to finish it up. I did fire it up and very nice deep tone, not much louder than my hideaway.
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krusher
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:23 am Post subject: |
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looks good , its nice to look at a part on your can ans say " I made that"
Did you tig it?
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Budes45
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:40 am Post subject: |
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| Mig, but if I was to do it again I would have used tig. |
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vwdmc16
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Budes45
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| The tip comes out behind the rear wheel and I cut it off so it would not stick out past the tire. |
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Ann Mezger
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| Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| Looks like it's comming together nice. Glad the source for stainless was a big help. |
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Budes45
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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All finished, thanks again for helping find the materials.
Clean polished and ready to be installed
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krusher
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Turned out very nice, i did the same thing but just in steel for a split bus about 5 years back, didant actually turn out any cheaper than buying one, but i enjoyed making it and it sat just where I wanted it to.
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Budes45
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:58 am Post subject: |
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| The whole project cost under $200, so i did save some money and as you stated it's just how I want it. |
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