Exhaust on FE engine swaps

[*gearhead*]

I have been looking at that myself. I have thought about combining them about the same location that you are and then following the stock routing (passenger side) the rest of the way out. The hardest part, I think will be trying to get the two combined and keeping it tucked in between the frame rails.

[dodmort]

i want it all up in the rails so nothing hangs down....
thanks for you reply.

[Chumley]

OK while the good stuff is still a month or more off (stupid weather and life getting in the way of my fun), I do have some pics up of Sanderson's shorty headers vs. the stock manifolds. I really like these headers and think it may help with running the new exhaust, but I won't know for a while. The only real negative I've got about them is they to forever to get, almost two months. In the companies defense though these are made one set at a time by a guy in a shop. And since not many manufacturers make FE shorty headers, I can't really complain. Here's the link to the pics, sorry I'm just no good at posting pictures to forums.

FE shorty headers

Once the motor's in and I start running pipe more pictures will show up.

[dodmort]

well
i bet they were not free....
look like the way to go so maybe next year for me.

son-in-law grabbed some free long tube fe's at yard sometime back.
told him to take them back, just did not see the fitment so we are using the thunderbird manifolds..

[Chumley]

OK so it's been way too long but I finally got the Y-pipe mocked up on the truck. With the way I've got the motor placed (a little lower than what might be right) it'll be TIGHT at the front drive shaft. I'm using 2-1/4" pipe off of the headers into a 2-1/2" Y and exhaust. I'm going to end up putting it strait through the trans cross member. I'll be punching a hole in it and then bracing around it. Well anyway I've got pics up on my gallery here's the link:

M715 Exhaust

As I do more more pics will come.

[dodmort]

we did same thing...
but from passenger to driver side we built it around and behind the 435 and between trans mount.
we did build a heat shield towards the trans. just in case...

[randyscycle]

That's some nice looking fab work there Chumley....great work!

[Chumley]

It's only nice looking cause the pictures are taken from funny angles Thanks

[Chumley]

I'm a little late in the posting of this, as my exhaust has been done for a month or two now, but I finally posted some pics of it up to the site. It's nothing special, but I think it came out pretty well. The Y-pipe is 2.25" pipe and the rest is 2.5" pipe. That's plenty of flow for the fairly stock 352 that's in there. It sounds good too!

My exhaust build