another job on warren's we need to finish the exhaust off so we've had loads of different
ideas what we're going to do with the exhaust on this car over the period it's been here
um we're at the point now we kind of just need to get it done and we're maybe not going to
do some of the things we wanted to do with it because the priority now is getting it on track
it's already got an exhaust system on it which is one of our systems which is what's been on it
basically forever the tailpipe's a bit dodgy we didn't do that don't it's been big welded
and chopped for some reason i think to fit the bumper obviously we we only do uh vxr center exit
obviously this is a kind of an sri body kit i guess so we need to do something about that but
the first thing is connecting with the down path we made in the summer last year to the mid pipe
so what i'm gonna do got flex i need to get flex in it somewhere there's obviously a flex
bellow in the engine bay but that's just to take up any movement from for the manifold and the
wastegate we do want another flex under the car um the original theory was i'm just going to put that
straight on there and then we're going to take off for our exhaust which is either going to be a
side exit or a center exit through the diffuser or whatever it was going to be
but for now we're just going to keep what we've got just to get the car running
and we can maybe look at doing something later down the line
so this is pretty simple really um i'm probably not going to keep the flexi here anymore
because i want to try and gain as much ride height as i can i need to check
but i think we'd benefit by moving the the flexi further over here and putting it on the same
height as this pipe because the downpipe sits quite a bit lower than this mid pipe
um we may end up remaking this anyway because we're probably gonna need another silencer in it
we've also got cats to get in it or a cat to get in it um to make it kind of legal
time attack you need a cat don't know why but you do um so yeah it's just going to be case we're
trying to connect this up with here i don't think i'm going to put the flexi here because like i
said i want to try and uh keep it a bit higher up so i think i'm just going to sleeve a bit straight
onto here with a clamp again not i not the not my favorite way of doing it but at the minute i
just want to get the car kind of ready to race we can always kind of improve on it at a later date
and that's going to be the kind of the nicest way of doing it without having to
cut it and chop it in the future so we'll put a sleeve section on here and we'll clamp it on
and then we'll have our flex in the middle and then it'll just run straight back
to to sleeve on here and we're just going to need a little step down here
so first thing i'm going to do is just measure from here to probably about where i've got the
flex here between these two subframe strengtheners there and there cut piece
of tube swage it out slot it on that end and get the flex tacked on and then that'll give
me something to go off to kind of figure out what i'm going to do between here and here
so i've got this piece of tube slipped over the end of this mid pipe and the flexi on the end
of it um i've got that a touch loose on there but it'll be it'll straighten out once it's clamped up
again this is more than likely going to be a kind of temporary pipe anyway
um because we may end up changing this mid pipe to fit a cat in or an extra silencer
but we just want to do something for now just to kind of get it racer ready
i've got another piece of pipe and i'll put that on the end there and that'll show you the kind of
uh height difference we've got here so we've got a little bit of a height difference of about 15
mil between the two pipes i mean i can manipulate that a little bit because these are quite loose so
that would normally sit a little lower but even still we've got a bit of an angle difference
there's not much but it's just enough um i was kind of hoping to do all this without
taking this off that was one of the um kind of things i was hoping to do so
i'm gonna get a what like from our stock a 10 degree mandrel bend because i only need to go up
a slight you know slight amount 10 degree mandrel bend probably cut most of the leg off one end
and that'll get me going back up towards the body really quickly that'll then just sleeve
over here i'll just clamp that on and it will just you know it should just slide straight
into that flexi then i might need to weld a bit on the end but yeah we'll do that first
got that bend chopped up and swaged over the uh kind of down part we've got it pointing up
in the right direction now so now i need to kind of level it back off and i've cut another piece
another bend and that's going to sit something like that and then we just want our flexi in the
middle so if the flex is going to sit about there roughly roughly um i just need to with my sharpie
mark on here where i need to cut my tube somewhere around there i'll be fine
so yeah cut that one down i need to clean this up clean off my burrs and get that so
it's a nice fit inside there's a bit wobbly at the minute can't really weld that up get that
in that position tack it all together and then
yeah hopefully i can fit it that's the only problem with having a swage joint either end
it becomes quite hard to actually wedge it in but we can move this exhaust system back quite a lot
and that'll that's probably going to be the only way we can actually fit it in
i've got your swage done at both ends now i'm not even going to bother cleaning this
piece of pipe up i don't like polishing it because i'm pretty sure it's going to end up
being changed fairly soon um like not like tomorrow but probably before the end of the year
so i'm just kind of making it uh quick and dirty i guess um but yeah got it all
lined up now slip fitted on at both ends so we'll have a clamp around both of those ends
we may weld this i'm not 100 sure yet we'll just see how we get on because it depends if
we've got this down pipe off again if we end up taking the down pipe off to make the engine mount
which might be easier then we'll weld it up at the same time
but for now we'll just get this welded up um and that's one one job ticked off the list
right so welded up by my glamorous assistant um should just drop straight on
it's always a bit hard to get uh two female slip joints on the same pipe to squeeze back in but
there we go just like that so if we tighten those clamps up try and get them square to the ground
as much as we can this one we can rotate round so that we get the maximum ground clearance from it
that's going to be quite crucial
i said we'll clamp this for now and in the future we may end up just welding this joint up
i'm not sure if it it's one of them but it's like you're trying to think about in terms of
like doing maintenance on the car like if the engineer has to come out something like that
because it's got a v-band joint at the top i'm not sure you'd ever really ever need to undo that
um and if it's welded it's just one less thing to go wrong one less clamp to come undone or
something else less to kind of break or get broken so if we just tighten them up that's it we're all
sorted
so exhaust and downpipe all finished now again we may end up
adding uh a silence or a cat in at some point um i just want to get the car to a
point where it's kind of got everything it needs a bare minimum to kind of go and race
depending on how much time we have left before one comes picks the car up for brand hatch we may end
up throwing another silence or a cat in it's not a big job um but you know just kind of getting
it all kind of finished is uh is more important at this moment in time so yeah the next thing
we've got to sort now is the engine mount so we'll sort that in the next episode thanks for watching