I have a couple of muscle mustangs and fast fords that has a couple of fox bodys with side exit exhuast with rocker panels. How can I find these. I am replacing the hood font bumper adding a cobra rear bumper a saleen wing and I want those rockers. Anyone have any ideas? I would love to get these pieces. I am actually waiting to buy body parts and paint my stang with hopes that i can find these parts.
Side exhuast for fox body?
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LiquidGT
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I thought I remember seeing some advertised in a rag before, but that was a long looong time ago.
I've done it before, myself, and it didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped. The two best ways to go about it are to either:
1. Buy the side-exit cat-back exhaust by Spintech (VERY expensive, but sounds good);
2. Buy two 2.5" Dynomax Super Turbos with the inlet/outlet on the same side (I think it's part #37676, cost around $65 each last I checked), two 90* elbows, two 18" straight extensions, two universal clamp-on hangers, and six 2.5" clamps (unless you plan on welding it, which I wouldn't recommend in this case). Poke your flowtubes into the inlet side of the muff, bolt up the stock hanger onto the rear of the muff (it has a loop with a bolthole on the back like stock mufflers), then poke the elbow into the outlet and stick on the extension. Fiddle around with the tilt of the muffler and the pipes to get the right angle necessary to clear the underbody of the car while not letting it hang so far down as to look too ridiculous, then drill and bolt on your clamp-on hangers to the tailpipes and go drive.
The problems: No matter how to do it, you're going to lose at least 2" to 3" of already low ground clearance. Speed bumps? Fugeddaboutit. Hearing the exhaust right outside your door, which I've found only sounds good with an off-road H-pipe or stock H-pipe (an X-pipe makes these muffs sound kind of gross, like glasspacks), is cool for maybe the first day or two, but gets REALLY annoying when you're cruising along on the highway. You won't get a lot of (if any) fumes in the cabin during regular driving, but when you're at a stoplight, especially with the windows down ... I hope you like that "new muffler smell."
And lastly, it's an illegal configuration in some states, so you might want to check on what the rules are regarding side-exit exhaust systems on cars.
I've got pics stashed away on file, if you really want 'em, but I really don't recommend doing side-exits on a Fox. On any other car with more ground clearance, maybe, and on a truck, definitely, but not on a Fox. Additionally, unless you get a good exhaust shop to custom-bend up some piping for you, it just winds up looking kinda weird no matter how you do it, because looking at it from the side, you can see this weird tangle of exhaust hanging under there, as it's near-impossible to tuck things up under the chassis as easily as you can with dumps or rear-exit tailpipes.
1. Buy the side-exit cat-back exhaust by Spintech (VERY expensive, but sounds good);
2. Buy two 2.5" Dynomax Super Turbos with the inlet/outlet on the same side (I think it's part #37676, cost around $65 each last I checked), two 90* elbows, two 18" straight extensions, two universal clamp-on hangers, and six 2.5" clamps (unless you plan on welding it, which I wouldn't recommend in this case). Poke your flowtubes into the inlet side of the muff, bolt up the stock hanger onto the rear of the muff (it has a loop with a bolthole on the back like stock mufflers), then poke the elbow into the outlet and stick on the extension. Fiddle around with the tilt of the muffler and the pipes to get the right angle necessary to clear the underbody of the car while not letting it hang so far down as to look too ridiculous, then drill and bolt on your clamp-on hangers to the tailpipes and go drive.
The problems: No matter how to do it, you're going to lose at least 2" to 3" of already low ground clearance. Speed bumps? Fugeddaboutit. Hearing the exhaust right outside your door, which I've found only sounds good with an off-road H-pipe or stock H-pipe (an X-pipe makes these muffs sound kind of gross, like glasspacks), is cool for maybe the first day or two, but gets REALLY annoying when you're cruising along on the highway. You won't get a lot of (if any) fumes in the cabin during regular driving, but when you're at a stoplight, especially with the windows down ... I hope you like that "new muffler smell."
And lastly, it's an illegal configuration in some states, so you might want to check on what the rules are regarding side-exit exhaust systems on cars.
I've got pics stashed away on file, if you really want 'em, but I really don't recommend doing side-exits on a Fox. On any other car with more ground clearance, maybe, and on a truck, definitely, but not on a Fox. Additionally, unless you get a good exhaust shop to custom-bend up some piping for you, it just winds up looking kinda weird no matter how you do it, because looking at it from the side, you can see this weird tangle of exhaust hanging under there, as it's near-impossible to tuck things up under the chassis as easily as you can with dumps or rear-exit tailpipes.
Couple of ancient, crappy-quality pics of my old notch's side-exits with the Dynomax same-side inlet/outlet muffs...
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iwashmycar
20+ Year Stangneter 
if your adding a cobra rear....fun em out the back! otherwise its going to look rediculous as the cobra is formed for tails!
Bay_Stang
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check out Drift50.com they did it on a 90 gt. looks and sounds good. they ran it straight off the h-pipe. no mufflers
Agreed, it will look like you were too cheap to buy tailpipes. Only fox model that can get away with no tail pipes is a GT.
As fair as side exhaust goes, i think it was classic design concepts that had the side exhaust with rocker panels.
According to their website they now have nothing for a foxbody.
But i know for sure the kits existed from some company back in the day, if it wasn't CDC.
Flavadave4
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