Well after driving for a while, my
exhaust was always loud, and the fumes would come into the cab all
the time. I couldn’t stand it. So, I gave my friends at
summit
racing a call. And in 4 days, I had two new shinny 40 series
flowmasters. Summits service is top notch, and is super quick.
(yea, I know, this was not cheap, but I wanted something nice)
So, with these in my hand I went down
to the local muffler shop. To my horror they wanted to charge me
$150 to install it. I felt this was way over priced, as my old 84
toy, I had a full exhaust with flowmaster installed for $180.
So, after leaving the local shop, I
stopped by pep boys to see if they had any prebent tubing. And sure
enough, they did.
My shopping list was;
Well after driving for a while, my
exhaust was always loud, and the fumes would come into the cab all
the time. I couldn’t stand it. So, I gave my friends at
summit
racing a call. And in 4 days, I had two new shinny 40 series
flowmasters. Summits service is top notch, and is super quick.
(yea, I know, this was not cheap, but I wanted something nice)
So, with these in my hand I went down
to the local muffler shop. To my horror they wanted to charge me
$150 to install it. I felt this was way over priced, as my old 84
toy, I had a full exhaust with flowmaster installed for $180.
So, after leaving the local shop, I
stopped by pep boys to see if they had any prebent tubing. And sure
enough, they did.
My shopping list was:
2 45deg
bends |
2 90deg
bends |
2 straight
pieces |
I began by removing the stock set up. My FJ40 has
a 327 swapped in, with over the frame headers, and the exhaust
exiting in front of the tires. (this is why I thought the muffler
shop was over priced, there is not much tubing or work
involved) As you can see, the stock exhaust was in bad shape,
and did not even match.
Here are the completed pictures. they hang
down about as low as the stock set up, and should work for me for a
while. once I get back into rock crawling, I will have something
else done. I want to wait till I am finished with everything before
I have a custom one bent up.
