Looks nice! Everything you did, i need to do to my gto lol.
Other than oil change, but i also need to do the pinion seal on the diff. Just put the battery in the gto so i can soon get the wheels balanced, front bumper replaced and maintenance.
Does the Tin Man have a sheet metal cock?
Thats all I have to add
when it gets warm bring it by and we’ll toss it on the lift, i owe you anyhow
Does it have the stock cats on it still? It is kind of hard to tell from the pictures. Long tube headers with the z06 cat back and no cats sounds pretty good.
it has the stock midpipe cats. I don’t recall if this model has the precats in the headers or not, I’m pretty sure it does. I’m not going to remove the primary cats because I still want this system to be pretty damn quiet when cruising around. I do plan on welding in cutouts next to the transmission out back, but that’s probably a few weeks away.
When I buy longtubes it’ll probably get rid of the precats anyhow, but the primaries will stay.
sleepy eye HID are the way to go.
nice pick up never saw those wheels.
might pick up my dads black C5 this year as well. same year same color but targa, lowered, black wheels/windows.
^do it. I think the targa body style has not aged as well as the hardtop but it’s still elegant.
slow but steady progress. I dusted off the welder, chop saw, and unpackaged the mandrel bend and flanges that came in.
First I installed the Ti muffler on the driver’s side, getting the tip level, and then held the front flange in place with a jack and a 2x4.
Now that point A and point B were fixtured I connected the dots. The blank flange bolted to the muffler flange gave me a lot of leeway and made it fairly easy.
All tacked up:
_DSC4710 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr
_DSC4712 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr
Now I need to repeat the process for the passenger side.
Nice work, what are you welding with Mig? 110?
little Millermatic 135 I picked up last year, it’s perfect for what I use it for, but sometimes I wish I had a 220 unit for the heavier stuff. I don’t often weld thick stuff though so I don’t really mind.
Looks good :tup:
Few more months then its time to throw the lawn chairs in the back and cruise
I literally already have my clubs in the trunk. Need to see if my cooler will fit too next to some chairs
Thanks bud! I might need to take up your offer, i hurt my back at work, it feels minor but not sure if it is worse than it seems.
So I finished cutting the bends for the passenger side of the factory midpipes, and got it all tacked into place. For some reason it went much more slowly than the driver’s side. The compound bend (lateral and vertical move) was being a real PITA, but I finally got it to fit while keeping the tailpipes level. That was strike 1, got me kinda pissed off. Now that the system was tacked, I was ready to drop it and finish weld everything. Removed the 6 header nuts - 2 came out clean, the rest snapped the studs - that was strike 2. Disconnected oxygen sensors, removed midpipe hangers, and dropped it down. Set it on my shop cart and got all set up to finish weld it, and had a bunch of issues with the wire birdnesting inside the gun tip - so I had to stop and clear the jam every couple of minutes. Now I’m pretty ticked. Finally get a rhythm going and the wire runs out. Strike 3. At this point I decided to quit for the night before I lit the whole thing on fire.
Go inside to wash up and have a beer, and I see that Huron Speed is having a sale for their longtubes and x-pipe, $50 off and free shipping. I thought about how much fun it would be to remove 4 broken studs in the existing manifolds and 30 seconds later placed my order. I still plan on welding up the existing system I fabbed, but will keep it in the basement in case the catless x-pipe is too loud.
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Cliffnotes: Welded stuff. Broke studs. Got pissed off. Longtubes on sale. Cha-ching.
Would have done the same thing…
I like this thread
FYI catless long tubes with the TI is not that loud at all.
^ That’s reassuring. I do not want a loud system since I intend on driving the hell out of this once the snow melts. I will be welding in some cutouts, though.
How’d you make your corvette gif?
i stole it from someone else on corvette forum, I have no clue how they made it. I just stuck it in tags like you would for pictures and it works. It’s the same “splash screen” that comes up on the DIC when you turn the ignition on, kinda cool