Fabricating your own exaust AFTER the down pipe...
 

It SUCKSSSSSSSS

Especially when you are doing it with the wagon a full 12-16" off the ground......When I upgrade to 3" exhaust, I sure as ---- am paying someone, or paying someone to rent their lift!!!!

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it does suck w/o a lift, all the crawling under the car and trying to tack ---- on...

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open downpipe FTW

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without a lift it sucks so much ass. with a lift it's easy and midly enjoyable.

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just get a nascar jack and put jack stands on top of cinder blocks :P

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cinder blocks would work if you have a dolly to roll around on.
I use a lift when doing my exhaust, full working garage with an adjacent machine shop ftw :6

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I make the section over the axle first, then use slip fits on every other pipe. I clamp them in as I go, and when I'm done, pull it out and weld. Then the clamps come off for better ground clearance.

Still a pain, but by far the easiest way to build exhaust on the ground, especially if you have an impact wrench for the clamps.

I'll do a pictorial whenever I get the engine back in my S10.

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I kinda enjoy the hot slag falling on your neck area.

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Get a good creeper & tall jackstands, it's not so bad.
Oh... Learn the old addage, "Measure twice, cut once." bitches.

And wear the right clothes/gear lmao.

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Thats the best inst it? then u find out u have soem bald spots on your head later that night. O0

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my ears were bleeding when i was doing mine it was so miserable. i agree i do NOT want to do that again.

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I loooove that ----, even though all i have is gay jackstands.

Lol, you know to stop welding when you can smell it.

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Drive way exhausts are teh suck. I'm making small adjustable stands to hold the piping up, I've got two more exhausts this summer to help with.

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just to show you how high you can get without car lift
now i got an engine lift to do my swaps
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haha pull that bitch up to a tree. wrap a chain around the front cross member and winch that bastard up with the limb or a redneck engine hoist!! hell if u pull it up far enough you wont even have to lay on the ground :8 or are yall a bunch of city slickers and not have trees haha

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LMao that is crazy high...and you feel safe under that?

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:l :S :8

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I don't trust jacks 100%. I try to always use jack stands so the pressure isn't on the jack.

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i didnt worked under the car that way
i was only to pull the engine out
im not that stupîd :P

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Good. One wrong move and that thing could come down fast. Kinda scary looking at that. I bet someone has done ---- like that.

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front page material

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I use the jackstands, keep the jack under, and throw some blocks/wood under the car to be extra careful.

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I never used jack stand's, untill i was working under the car. climbed out from under it went in the house to get something to drink. when i came back out the jack had turned over some how and came out from under the car and the car was sitting on the ground and i had both front wheel's off. So yea that would have sucked.

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:o :o :o

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for most things i dont need jackstands. only needed one to flex my worn out stock suspension to drop my oil pan

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I don't need to jack my car up at all to do exhaust work. I have a 6 foot deep pit in my garage...pull the car up over the pit, walk down the stairs into the concrete hole, and proceed to tack weld the pipes together. ;D

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Garage pit eh?

I tack weld it with the crap on the car. Pull it off and weld it properly off the car:

http://lakebox.dnsalias.com/photos/1...d/med/exh2.jpg

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im scared to go in our pit with a welder...we spray too much brake clean and there is entirely too much oil on the floor. id never make it out alive...

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lol i jack my cars up that high...thats standard poor man's engine swap height right there