So I made an Exhaust system
 

Well the hatch was going to need it sooner or later so I went to the autoparts store and got some good ole' crush bent 90*s and 45* a thrush glass pack, and Thrush turbo muffler and a piece of 36" 2.5 pipe and a 15" length of 2.5 Totaled probably about $125. The flanges were left over E-gay exhaust flanges which I bored out a little to fit 2.5"

Well here it is Enjoy:

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Check out my sexy mig welds:
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For hangers off the muffler I used 3/8" Nails I found in my basement. I bent them in the vice and ground the heads down a little to fit into the hangers but not fall out.
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And to top it all off, I had to throw in a whitey bend to get the muffler to fit nice:
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thats right about HMT quality. Nice

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paint your welds, they rust quick if they are left bare.

i used a ceramic cast iron gray color and it makes my magnaflow oval practically invisible and hasnt shown much of any rust at all through a few years of NE winters.

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Ended up redoing a exaust because it started to rust bad after a winter at the welds. Barbaque paint FTW.

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nice job man! that pipe to flange weld lookgs great. overall it gets a thumbs up. i suggest clean, primer and paint. or find a really heavy duty single stage paint.

When i made my 3" exhaust, i cleaned it and did 3-4 light coats of BBQ black. But the paint didn't hold up to a NY winter sadly.

-luke

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cool homemade ---- ftw

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I'm not worried about rust. I threw some high temp paint on the welds, but didn't do the whole thing. I'm not driving this in the winter.

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is this boosted or na? either way can you get a sound clip of it and send it to me please. i was going to do the exact!!!! thing to my hatch as well. also are you running a header or stock manifold? lmk if you can send me a clip. thanks

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i wanna hear this baby too. is that red tube a cherry bomb muffler..sure looks like it

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That is my exact same exhaust setup, and it's the ----.