Just a quick post....
Hanger fabbing!
I took my big piece of rubber stock and used my buddies band saw to cut the short pieces to length. Rubber does not cut easily with a narrow toothed blade... Holding the cutting line "open" a tad to take the pressure off of the blade worked well. Free cutting was best, as I tried using a fence but it would just bind up. Pulling the little 1/4" flap away from the blade helped as I was narrowing the 2" pieces down to 1-3/4".
Marked up some holes based upon where the reinforcement pieces went.
Using a 1/2" wood type bit with no lube.
Slower RPMs worked well, backed up by drilling into a piece of wood. Trimmed boogers off with an Exacto knife.
Stuffed in the small metal spacers.
Dorked around with heights and marked the slots of the muffler brackets. Slots allow for slight height adjustments, or you can just make them to fit to the top of the slot.....I aimed for the middle...
Rear hangers are pretty much vertical. Front hangers deviate...
Tried to make things close to level.
These cars are not symmetrical...
Fab'ing up the inlet pipes to the mufflers. Left side went fairly easily. Right side was a bugger...ended up Frankenstein'ing the pipe..
Franky!
Mufflers are off at the welder getting the stainless steel welded up where I had to Frankenstein the RH inlet pipe... I tack welded everything in place.....let them pretty it up and put in the O2 bungs for me.
Tomorrow! List grows shorter! If I don't get it to smoke test Tuesday, Wed will be smoke and fire! OK, at least turn on the ignition, check for smoke, put gas in the tank and carb, and see what happens!!!
Ciao! More pics later.....it's late!
Steve
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