I need some advice from the veteran big-block exhaust wizards.
I've got bus heads on my engine, and I have enough clearance under my transmission for a collector. It's a 2366 (71 stroke with 103s in it), so I'm going with a three-inch pipe and a Flowmaster muffler. I want to hog the muffler out one side or the other, rather than the rear because of the way the thing flips up and cuts into the space available back there.
What I'd like to do is vent the exhaust straight down from each port -- because I have to -- and then turn the pipes right away by varying degrees and aim them to a point directly under the axles.
If I stick the collector under the tranny and aim the three-inch jobber forward, I could go out under the door on either side.
I want to go out to the right side.
I've got plenty of material to attach to and enough height at the sides of the car to allow for that pipe to come out. The section of pipe with the muffler on it is done already, wrapped with fiberglass and overall about 20 inches long. I'll take a photo of it tomorrow.
I need to know a couple things from the Conventional Wisdom Department. One, I've never had a fiberglass-bodied car before this one. I don't know if dumping that exhaust within a half-inch of the rear fender (ahead of the tire) will distort the glasswork, and two, I don't know what the wisdom of putting the collector under the transmission is.
I can't tuck much in the way of tubing into the void-space behind the block anymore, as I said. The rounded lip of the bottom of the bodywork comes up and in, almost directly below the plane of the pulley by a couple inches. I'll try to take a more descriptive picture of that, too.
Opinions would be very helpful. ...
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