You don't consider this a bolt together exhaust? I have clamps on the front and back of both mufflers?I wouldn't weld anything until you sort out what you are doing with the tail pipes.
Clearance with 2.5 pipes can be a pain in multiple places. If you land up mixing and matching brands and catbacks it will surely involve tweaking (which is why i like bolt together catbacks, infinitely adjustable).
Sometimes they hit the axles tubes, other times they hit the upper control arms and then you have the pipes hitting the corner of the gas tank.
With a GT exhaust that really can't be seen you can align it however you like to make it not hit, you mess up lx tail pipes and it will be obvious because most tips are slash cut.
There is a lot of twisting and turning of the parts to get it all straight.
Just catching up on this thread, but yep….. I’m in NY and I heard the same thing about oil base paints. Unbelievable! .Tree hugger.... I went to parts store to buy wax and grease remover for a paint project... Its gone, NY banned it seems NJ retail stores just dropped it. Heard there banning oil based paints to wtf, can't even buy rustolem cans soon.. I had to get it from body shop my brother works at and holly chit that price doubled.
That was the government bumper standards getting in the way !I am old enough to remember when those were new...
I wasn't a fan of those exhausts but I hadn't forgiven Pontiac ( and the Chevy Z28 ) for ruining the front end on these cars in 74.....
the 70-73 Trans Ams and Z28s were one of my favorite vehicles...... Red car is a 74
Keep more heat against that hanger, as it’s way thicker than the muffler, and you’ll be ok. Let the puddle flow from that piece to the muffler steel.Here is a pic of a new and a bent exhaust hanger....
I tried to heat it with my propane torch and really not sure if it helped much or any at all... Waiting for it to cool down to check the fit was really time consuming and I thought about renting a car trailer to haul it to a muffler shop....
Ended up clamping it in the vise and just hitting it with my 4lb hammer.... The hangers seem very malleable ( they bend well) and I was pleased with the results I got NOT using an heat.. The bent hanger in the pic was done with NO heat....
Both sides are ready to weld to the back of the mufflers... Hopefully later today I can post a welded picture...
I installed the 99-04 muffler hanger brackets that have two arms each for two hangers on each pipe.... With my tailpipe conundrum, I think I will weld the hanger that goes on the muffler only at this time, then when the car is back on the ground decide if I will install the correct LX tailpipe... The hanger, that attaches to the second arm on the 99-04 bracket, welds to the tail pipe... I can come back and do this later to which tailpipe I decide to use...
Yes, you are correct.. I remember the 5 mph bumpers well.....That was the government bumper standards getting in the way !
The mig wire kept burning back to the tip...Keep more heat against that hanger, as it’s way thicker than the muffler, and you’ll be ok. Let the puddle flow from that piece to the muffler steel.
Turn up the wire speed.The mig wire kept burning back to the tip...
Been practicing on my old muffler and thought I was ready..Turn up the wire speed.
It’s always a battle. Before I did anything on the car, I’d find similar thickness scrap metals and practice on that first.
I burned through a whole bottle practicing on thin floor pan metal, but in the end it was worth it!
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