What did you do with your 60 this weekend? (6 Viewers)
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Yes, sir! Big deal right there
Awesome! I passed you several times. You have a good looking 60. Bummer about your trip home.
Yeah we had a blast like always. Should have spent some more time at the pavilion. We had 3 cabins so we stayed around there a lot, grilled out and drank beers around the fire till about midnight every night. Great weekend!
Doing the final steps in a Sniper/D.U.I. install and "while I'm here" decided it was time to do the oil galley fix. Pulled the valve cover and found this.
Never expected things to be this clean. Shout out to POs who ever you are.
Never expected things to be this clean. Shout out to POs who ever you are.
That a nice sight. Might as well check/adjust valve lash too. Good luck on the sniper install.
That's next on the list.
I just did my motor mount on the driver side. Yours looks good compared to the one I took out!
When I replaced my drivers side mount it came out in two pieces. Split right down the middle of the rubber. But that’s what years of P.S. fluid dripping on it will do. As you can see in the picture the passenger side was just rusty and the rubber was starting to get dry and flaky. I almost didn’t do it but once I removed the compressor. New today was the day.
Made some tweaks to my exhaust. This is the original setup. The vibrant flex bellows rattle like crazy when cold. When they heat up they expand and don’t rattle, but it was driving me crazy. Also, the curve around the driveshaft was waaaay lower and further from the yoke as I originally planned.
Here’s how it was.
Chopped out the flex bellows in the bandsaw and welded in some braided flex joints with interlocking liners from vibrant. 100% noise free now, and the bellows definitely had a little bit of a leak too. Also took some length and added some angle to the cross over to get it super tucked in to the driveshaft. The flat section of the crossover also sits into the recess of the trans pan much better now. Thankfully was able to salvage 99% of the existing stuff.
This is about as tight as you can get it to the yoke without it hitting at full droop.
If you look under the tcase you can see how the exhaust hung down low under everything just waiting to be smacked by something.
Here it is now. No more hang down.
The exhaust is baked in super good now and has a nice gold color to it. High quality 304 stainless always looks so good! Got to say. This s*** is a lot of fun. The plan is to redo the crossmember at some point and build a big skid plate, will be a shame to hide all of this stuff
Here’s how it was.
Chopped out the flex bellows in the bandsaw and welded in some braided flex joints with interlocking liners from vibrant. 100% noise free now, and the bellows definitely had a little bit of a leak too. Also took some length and added some angle to the cross over to get it super tucked in to the driveshaft. The flat section of the crossover also sits into the recess of the trans pan much better now. Thankfully was able to salvage 99% of the existing stuff.
This is about as tight as you can get it to the yoke without it hitting at full droop.
If you look under the tcase you can see how the exhaust hung down low under everything just waiting to be smacked by something.
Here it is now. No more hang down.
The exhaust is baked in super good now and has a nice gold color to it. High quality 304 stainless always looks so good! Got to say. This s*** is a lot of fun. The plan is to redo the crossmember at some point and build a big skid plate, will be a shame to hide all of this stuff
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Did we ever get a video with sound after you swapped to Ti? I bet that dump pipe sounds mean.
Man... I wish i had TI money haha. This is all 304 Stainless from Stainlessbros. The TI tubing itself isnt much more expensive, but you can only weld titanium to titanium so all of the mufflers, resonators, vbands, etc have to be TI too. It ends up costing a fortune. For example my exhaust setup uses 4 vbands. The 304 SS vbands from vibrant are like $75 each. The CP2 Ti vbands from vibrant are $160 each!
Ive only bought the TI sample pack from TiCon, but it would have been really cool to do the whole thing in titanium!
Ill try and get a video today, when the flap is closed its pretty quiet but when you open it, it sounds great! I made sure to put the resonator before the cut out so its got 2 cats and a huge resonator before it. It cuts the rasp and drone of the straight pipe really well!
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@TheEngineer videos as requested. Ive not installed my in tank fuel pump yet so the external pump is pretty loud, and theres someone using a backpack blower in the background. Its hard to get the sound on a cell phone, but it sounds way better on my iphone speakers compared to my laptop hahaha
Thought this was pretty cool, its of the cutout opening and closing. Out of the entire exhaust the only tappy leak ive got is from this thing. Its very very quiet and goes away once the whole exhaust warms up though
Thought this was pretty cool, its of the cutout opening and closing. Out of the entire exhaust the only tappy leak ive got is from this thing. Its very very quiet and goes away once the whole exhaust warms up though
Man that’s really nice! Any drone with the cutout closed? What muffler setup?
None whatsoever. For the muffler I used a magnaflow 12586, its the biggest magnaflow muffler they have that is "stainless" and still straight through. I really wanted to use an actual 304 stainless muffler, but couldnt find one that had a body length longer than 15 inches and 6x9. This magnaflow has a 22 inch body length and is 5x11 so its freaking huge. It like barely fits between the stock hanger and the shock, but it fits.
Even with this giant muffler, it probably would still drone if i didnt use a good resonator. The resonator i used is an oval style that looks like a muffler, its from vibrant, the "Ultra Quiet" Resonator. 1140. If you put it up as far forward in your exhaust as you can it will get you the best results, the closer to the front seats the better. Ive got this resonator before my cutout and it doesnt even drone with the cutout open. The oval resonator has more volume than the bottle style ones, and putting it forward will let it cancel out the drone frequencies earlier in the system so you dont hear it. If you put it near your tailpipe youd hear it under your driver seat before the exhaust hit the resonator.
Couple other things i did to cut the noise was the two cats and using 2.5 inch pipe all the way to the back. The setup ive got sounds good at startup and at idle but normal cruising around town it is pretty dang quiet. You can barely hear it unless you get on it. Then when you open the cut out it is louder but not obnoxious. When you open the cut out the exhaust hits the cats and resonator first so it tames the yee yee straight pipe sound haha. If you cant tell, im really into exhaust stuff
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My man I’m copying this exactly. Ive had too many issues in the past with horrible drone and V8s. I appreciate your input
Dude not a problem at all. If your truck is a regular driver or you dont want to just be waking up your neighbors, its a great setup. The only way to get it queter would be to use a oem style replacement muffler for like a tahoe instead of the magnaflow hahah
No that sounds perfect, I think my neighbors are happy I sold my 600hp NA C6Z06
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Simply buy a Ti vband and a SS vband. Split them in/out of the muffler/reso and all good.
