New exhaust = new tires (the saga goes on...)

[MaineShark]

So, I finally get my exhaust fixed up nicely.

But... I can't go over any bump in the road without rubbing. The change from 2" to 2 1/2", (0.5" lost ride height) combined with the 235/60R15 tires that the previous owner installed (0.65" lost ride height), is enough to get the exhaust pipe too close to the ground.

I was going to wait until spring to get new tires, but I guess I need to bite the bullet and do it now.

Ah, well, such is life.

Joe

 

[Mako]

So, I finally get my exhaust fixed up nicely.

But... I can't go over any bump in the road without rubbing. The change from 2" to 2 1/2", (0.5" lost ride height) combined with the 235/60R15 tires that the previous owner installed (0.65" lost ride height), is enough to get the exhaust pipe too close to the ground.

I was going to wait until spring to get new tires, but I guess I need to bite the bullet and do it now.

Ah, well, such is life.

Joe

Side pipes will fix that problem right up without having to pop for new rolling stock ;-)

CYa!
Mako

 

[MaineShark]

Believe me, with how much time and money I've spent on getting this exhaust set right, I would have much preferred to go with sidepipes. Hindsight is 20/20, though.

Joe

 

[DDLS3]

The 255/60/R15 (optional size for 80-82) give a nice ride and look good, with no rubbing of the exhaust. I have 2-1/2" pipe and headers on my 81 as well.

 

[Vette/Berlina-coupe]

-special low-profile exh.-system needed...

-have said it before elsewhere herein, but here's a grand opportunity for some entrepreneur to come-up with a very profitable (sell thousands of pairs a year) solution to this 35-year old problem created by some short-sighted GM-budget bean-counters (there were probably good solutions offered at the time by perceptive 1960's/GM-engineers); NOW HEAR THIS: -we C3-owners need a viable alternative to sidepipes (-sexy, but a bit "in your face" for most owners) ad --that would probably necessarily involve a pair of inverted-U shaped s/s or cast-alum. pipe-sections going from a round-pipe into a thus squeezed-down 5/8"-thick x say 9"-wide U-shape and back into a round-pipe shape outlet for mating to the pipe going on back to rear of car! This would thereby route the exhaust-pipes neatly up over the swing-axles(instead of under), only necessitating proper heat-insulation from the car's fiberglass underbody region above the axles. I think this is very do-able, -and will provide inexpensive Patenting as incentive to protect an entreprener's investment in it! Imagine no longer having to suffer the shame & humility when running-over some Riceburner, who will inevitably glance up smirking at what looks like an exh.-system from a 20's/Model-T; -I for one can't stand it when that happens!!! What'do-yahall -think.... ~Bob vH
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