ok fellas let me get yall take on this...

I am about to start fabing my stainless exhaust. I know it is a lot easier to buy one from EVT but they are just a little out of my price range. I am a fabricatior by trade and know how to tig. So i am about to order me some stainless tube and will be getting my machine shop to mill the flanges. i am running a 35 gtr on a 1754 gtb and my first area to watch is the clutch cover.

this must have come up before and will most likely be a repeat thread... but any suggestions would help...

Sell Em for 300 and make a killin! I need two. One for a pd and one for a gt.

I am betting that by the time you get your materials and purchase time on a mandrel bender you will decide that you have not saved enough to make it worth it.

Unless you just enjoy doing that sort of thing and you want to do it for a project.

Its not that bad build 3 so far but the plastic cover will get hot. Here are some pics of mine

thanks... blase it looks good...

and river i don't think it will even be close to what they are selling them for but i will keep you posted...

i am too far in now,, i got the machine shop milling the flanges today. so far the cost is of my project is $10. for new exhaust gaskets. i will order the pipe today or tomorrow..

also to add another thing i hear some people are gutting out there factory exhaust...
is there enough back pressure?? IDK just a question

Are you ordering pre-bent pipe?

If not do you have access to a mandrel bender?

That is where the cost is going to come into play. I hope you can save a bunch of $$ and you very well may. I was just giving my .02

Mandrel bender is a plus, the first one I made I bent the pipe with a hyd pipe bender and it came out with a lot of ripples. Not saying it can't work with a hyd bender buy you will see the difference. Depending on how you make the exhaust you might not even need a bend in the pipe.

river i am ordering a prebent pipe and thanks for the 2 cents... i need all i can get...


and blaze i am thinking of bending the pipe but i will have 2 seperate chambers instead of 1 as you did...
another thing is i will try to lift it a little to get away from the dang plastic cover...

Anybody ever tried to put a supertrapp on their mud motor?

BTW...mandrel tube bender are great! If you can find access to one... you will be happier with the results fo sho