My new y pipe is frickin sweet! Big thanke to my buddy Chuck! Also thanks to Mike (orange88) for hooking me up with a last minute bend. :thumb:

On to the pics!














A lot better than the crappy "F" Pipe that Muffler Clinic made and 694 crushed.




The motor sounds A LOT better. Like it can finally breathe. lol
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Sub frames in a week or so. New body in a year or two. The motor sounds way better. You can tell how well it breathes by the sound. I bought the Skulte crossmember and had a buddy weld up a support for the spohn torque arm.

 

That's bad a**! Good job on the y-pipe. This always is a problem to make on our third gens, but you pulled it off pretty good!

 

Not too shabby at all!

I'm going to be doing (more or less) the same thing pretty soon it looks like, I just bit the bullet & bought a set of Hooker long-tubes for my swap. They're not made for the Gen-III/IV engine, so I'll be getting started by cutting the original engine-side flanges off, then heating & bending a couple of tubes to fit the new LSx flange...
- and then seeing where the headers exit in relation to the Spohn T-56 crossmember that I got for basically free! (I know, you guys are all jealous of all the "fun" I'm going to have with this...)

I hope that mine comes out HALF as nice-looking as yours has!

 

Thanks guys. My buddy Chuck did a sweet job!

 

im about ot do the sam exact thing, how is th sphon tq arm ountef the the x-member?

 

Nice! good work! I havent seen too many pictures of the skulte crossmember. Your y-pipe looks very familiar







J.

 

ghettocruiser i want your exhaust! that is drop dead gorgeous! i just ordered a skulte cross member for my t56(tho not ls1 like you lucky guys) to replace my sphon one along w/ coated hedman lt's to replace my hooker supercomps (i need clearance to lower my car), and electric cutouts, but i dont know how im gonna attach my sphon tq arm to the trans x-member, how'd you do it? and would it be possible to put both cut outs on?, i love the sound of my open headers right now lol, to bad cops dont.

 

that one looks like it has notches for the exhaust, but the only one on skulte's site

http://www.skulte.com/product_info.p...65582ec0d16df8

says it's only for 93-97 t56. what gives?

 

I belive that is the one they are using I know spohn said you can use either crossmember for a t56 as they end up in the same spot.

 

They are saying its designed for the 93-97 T56 swap. But when you do an LS swap, the trans should fall int he same spot. So if that crossmember works for a TPI motor and T56 for instance...it will work for the LS1/T56 combo.

They arent saying its for 93-97 cars or anything...
J.

 

I know the site says '93-'97, but I haven't seen anything that says it won't work with LS1/T56. Hope it does, because they're both in my garage right now!

 

That'll work! Nice job

 

Y-pipe looks like it fits good.But those floor "repairs" are a different story

 

Thats just a temporary fix. I did not want to put a lot of hours in fixing this body. The current car is a test and fit kind of deal. In a year or two I will be getting a rust free car out of state and transfer everything over.

As far as the torque arm mount, I had it made out of the car. It works, but I its tight. I would like to get a shorter torque arm in the future.
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What do you mean?


My buddy brought over a electric welder (sorry, don't know the correct term as I am welder stupid) to do these welds. I am going to grind everything down and make it nicer.

 

haha... nice. Looks pretty good! I just took mine out the other day. Man I love those v-band flanges... Makes taking things apart so friggin easy. Whole y-pipe drops with a 1/2 wrench.

Good work again!

J.

 

kinda looks like the one I had made, but I used the other one.... the flat one. a much better piece then the spohn one