quote:Originally posted by accobra:
very nice george ..yes those are the babies ..8 into 1 ... the sound must be awsome and very smooth.
Brooke very nice also as I am a big fan of stainless .. do you have a pic of your 180's.
Ron
The 8 into 1 that I heard sounded quite a bit like an Indy car from a distance. It had even more of a whine then the GT40's do.
I love stainless too. I had bought a tubing bender to make my own stainless headers only to find that it is very, very difficult to bend smoothly without crimping it. I got disgusted with the project, sold the bender and dumped about $1,000 worth of tubing in the garbage.
Not long after that I saw an original factory GT4 car with factory built stainless headers and guess what? The tubes were all crimped like mine because the stuff just doesn't stretch on the outside of the radius and it wrinkles on the inside because you can't compress it there.
I still can't figure on how to make a 3" radius bend in the stuff without destroying the tube.
It was a car that George Stauffer owned and I think was racing at the time.
You can't gas weld the stuff either. At least I couldn't. All I was stuck with was stick welding and a stainless rod can be almost as tough as an aluminum rod to make the molten rod flow and puddle correctly. It makes a ton of carbon slag which means you have to flow the entire weld around the entire tube in one shot. Tough to say the least.