quote:Originally posted by Bosswrench:
With side-exit 180 exhausts, there's a chance such a car could use (or copy) Hall's half-trunk-tub made for his 180s, especially if you laminated heat-resistent stuff to the front & bottom of the tub. The half-trunk looks like what was stock on the Miura and is a whole lot better than nothing.
FYI, I remembered one more drawback to 180s: there's a definite order in how that tubular jigsaw puzzle goes back together! During a tech session engine swap some years ago on Mike Harper's car so equipped, it took longer to get the pipes bolted back in than it did to swap blocks! Naturely, the pipe remover was not the pipe-installer and we (and Mike) had no instructions as he'd bought the car that way.
A chance? I've got it. It still needs to be lined with anti-heat fabric so I can't carry any ice cream in there but heck I can start a nice pork roast in there and it will be done in an hour or so?
It's kind of a mess at the moment but if you promise not to look too hard at details I'll post a picture?
Well...do you promise or not?
No problem on getting mine apart or back together with the flange in the middle.
I always said that was the practical part of Stan's (FPP) design?
Forget about it with the individual pipes. Those things warp all over the place.
From the beginning I always considered the headers a "competition" thing and cosmetics were not the most important thing?
The trunk liner is just something to have to shut the critics up?
Actually my Camaro Pro Stock friend was/is still impressed with them but he still is trying to get me to put a BB Chevy in there?
I think he thinks I made the headers myself? I'm not going to admit I didn't? Let him roast in envy?
"Those crazy ass headers" is his comment, not mine?