Stainless Works Home Install

[tbone]

I can never get the passenger side pipe up as high as I want so I have to mess with the hanger to keep the tip where I want it.

[martyo]

If you have a torch and a "speed shop".

Not to mention a lift that magically raises your car 7 feet in the air.

I wish my lifts went that high - it would keep me from bonking my tater all the time!

[tbone]

My "lift" consists of 2 hydraulic jacks, 4 jack stands and 2 ramps I never use. Oh, and painters tarps to lay on.
My "torch" is a propane POS for soldering copper pipe, etc.
My "speed shop" is a 1 car garage stuffed with tools on both sides. And a stereo, a flat screen, satellite and of course a frig for cold ones. I manage.

[martyo]

My "lift" consists of 2 hydraulic jacks, 4 jack stands and 2 ramps I never use. Oh, and painters tarps to lay on.
My "torch" is a propane POS for soldering copper pipe, etc.
My "speed shop" is a 1 car garage stuffed with tools on both sides. And a stereo, a flat screen, satellite and of course a frig for cold ones. I manage.

Sounds like a happy Man Cave to me!

[tbone]

I wish it was about 4 feet wider.

[martyo]

I wish it was about 4 feet wider.

When I loved in New York my car was the perfect size. For a Model T!!!

Come South and you can hang out and put your car up and down as many times asd you like. No charge!

[justbob]

It's all about priorities friend! I paid $1,000.00 for mine and paid it off in two small side jobs three weeks later!

Seriously, outside of the car, hopefully soon another much, much older car, and tools, I have ZERO life... As long as my tools make me money, I'll purchase just about any I can get my hands on. If only my tool made me money in porn, I'd at least get a thrill out of torquing her..


Self proclaimed Builder Of Badassery.

Buy it, Break it, Build it BETTER.
"Since 2004"

[joe mosely]

Well, I've just gotten myself a new 50x80 shop, and hopefully going to be adding a lift sometime soon. Working out of my 24x30 garage (or my sister's across the street) is tight with all my other hobbies. My shop is 50% wrenching, 50% gunsmithing, and 100% junk pile.

If I had the know how to go with the new space I'd be set!

[joe mosely]

Murphy's law..

If the tip is up, then the muffler is down.

Yeah, still need to get it back up and go re adjust and re tighten everything.

[joe mosely]

Did you get a whiff of the exhaust without the cats? I am very sensitive to stinky fumes and put them on because of it.

Yup. Its awesome.

[Finally]

Ok so through out this thread it always comes down to having to always re-adjust the exhaust beacuse it expands after it get hot sometimes adjusting it several times.
Is this just a quality of stainless or beacuse it's not a welded up system,the last 3" exhaust I built for my 64 fairlane all mandrel and cut and welded together over the axel out the back never had to be touched,non stainless.

[tbone]

Ok so through out this thread it always comes down to having to always re-adjust the exhaust beacuse it expands after it get hot sometimes adjusting it several times.
Is this just a quality of stainless or beacuse it's not a welded up system,the last 3" exhaust I built for my 64 fairlane all mandrel and cut and welded together over the axel out the back never had to be touched,non stainless.

Custom built with your car on the rack is always optimal. And expensive. Unless you do it yourself.

[tbone]

It all comes down to the fact that the SW system is excellent but could use some tweaking by them to make it easier to install right the first time.

[Finally]

Custom built with your car on the rack is always optimal. And expensive. Unless you do it yourself.

Self done with the help of a friend including the headers,no hoist.but don't have the same enthusiasm now but would with a hoist for sure ,so if I pay a good dollar for a exhaust system it had better fit with no modifications required,and from the grumbling I read here on fitment issues I don't think I would consider their exhaust system but still will at some point get a set of headers from them.
I hope they have been informed of these issues and and are working towards a fix for the issues.

[jwibbity]

Custom built with your car on the rack is always optimal. And expensive. Unless you do it yourself.

theres a place in maryland that will do for 600-700 bucks if you supply cats, mufflers, and tips with a one day turn around