Justin: Hey everybody, Justin with americanmuscle.com and welcome to Hot Lap.
Now first, recently on our trip here to California for the MMD by Foose 2015 reveal, we were
fortunate enough to catch up with our friends from Magnaflow.
Richard, himself, gave us a tour of the facilities, why don't you check that out.
We're visiting our friends from Magnaflow, you guys remember Richard of course from SEMA
and of course Overhaulin', builds all the exhaust systems for Chip Foose and all those
great builds.
All right Richard, so it's no coincidence we're starting here, right?
This is where all the raw materials come into Magnaflow?
Richard: Correct, this crane basically offloads everything from coil for wires to coils for
bodies, but for the most part, what you're looking at is taking that raw material and
putting it to its first form.
Justin: Okay.
Richard: So at the tube press, this is where we take the coils, we load them and we can
create the basic shapes you're looking at, what you see is a finished catalytic converter.
Justin: Wow.
Richard: What we're looking at is we can make any shape at any size, with just a couple
of hour changeover time.
Justin: Wow.
Well, Richard, as luck would have it, we're in the land of Mustang exhaust here today.
Richard: You got our five inch rounds for competition series, four by nines for the
street.
Justin: Richard, it still looks like we're missing something buddy.
Richard: Yeah, we got the stuffing, the internals and we'll go through the process of what we're
going to do next.
If you want to grab that, let's go take a look.
Justin: Let's do it.
Richard: So we got to start the packing material and the first stage we're going to do is our
stainless steel wool rack.
That heat gets inside, it gets to go through and it dissipates some of the heat so it doesn't
burn the material, but more importantly, it uses the total surface area to do all your
noise dampening.
Justin: Very cool.
Richard: That's why you get that nice warm note, but it gets very quiet when you're cruising.
So this is that second stage of packing that we were talking about and basically the soft
material goes through the packing machine, but as it comes out you'll see little gaps
and those gaps are there because we have to condense the material, we use a water to do
that so that it actually fits in the muffler.
When we start the car, everything gets hot, that water wants to evaporate and it kind
of moves that packing material out, fills up that muffler completely and gives us the
sound you're expecting.
Let's get her capped and let's get her welded.
Justin: All right, let's do it.
Richard: Basically everything that goes on the body has to be firm and in place, so when
we put it in a robot, it knows exactly where to weld.
So we've got caps on it, we got the internals in place, we're going to go right over here
and watch some welding happen.
Justin: This is what I've been waiting for.
Richard: As you can see, we have a handler, it grabs the actual part and places it in
each one of the three welding cells inside, and they'll take care of the actual body welding
around the perimeter of the cap and the actual inlet and outlet of the muffler.
So from the welder it comes here, we go through our final stage of inspection.
We have one of our hand welders here, we're basically double checking all the welds, so
we have a product that comes out of the box ready to go.
So here's where we do all of our mandrel bending and you can see on the machines, you can actually
see the mandrel dye which is that little ball inside that goes through, and what it's doing
as it's bending, it's stretching the material by pulling the ball backwards through it.
And if you bend it too far it starts to pinch.
Justin: Okay.
Richard: And that's what happens when you have a traditional crush vendor, as you're
crushing the tubing sothat you can bend it and still have somewhat of that unobstructed
drive, but that airflow, you're going to lose up to 25% to 30% in the crush bend.
Justin: Wow.
Richard: Whereas here, you're maintaining 99 plus percent of the actual tube diameter,
which means it's not becoming the primary restriction in the exhaust.
Justin: Gotcha, very cool.
Where do we go from here?
Obviously these things got to be put together, right?
Richard: So once we're bent, we put it back in the fissure, we add that muffler in and
we get everything welded up.
Justin: All right Richard, so we've seen the piping getting bent, looks like we have machines
welding, we have people welding and we have some Mustang exhaust, this is awesome man.
So guys, you can always check out a great Magnaflow system for your ride, of course
at americanmuscle.com and until I guess maybe SEMA this year, we'll see you again.
Richard: Absolutely.
Justin: All right man, take care.
Richard: You too.
Stephanie: What's up guys?
Stephanie here and you guys just saw a lot of the main components of the well oiled machine
that is the Magnaflow facility, and I have with me here is that very same Magnaflow competition
cat back exhaust system that you guys all saw Chip, Richard and Justin install on the
2015 MMD by Foose Mustang.
Now we all know the high quality and construction of Magnaflow's products and they obviously
didn't change their ways with this product here, or with their street cat back exhaust
system for the 2015 GT.
Now this system features three inch mandrel bends, stainless steel tubing throughout and
it comes complete with a stainless steel x-pipe that's going to be taking place on that stock
resonator chamber in your factory exhaust.
Now this x-pipe paired with Magnaflow's five inch straight through mufflers are what's
going to give this system that aggressive and deep Mustang sound.
So take a listen and hear how it sounds compared to your factory exhaust.
So you guys can check out this Magnaflow competition cat back exhaust system, as well as all the
other new exhaust that American Muscle has for your new S550, just by heading back to
americanmuscle.com.
Justin: All right guys, Mustang news, it's a little quiet this month around the community,
but that doesn't mean we're slowing down at all here at AM.
We're doing some customer builds, in fact, the latest of which you might have already
seen on our YouTube channel.
AM customer Angelo recently brought in his a 2015 Ecoboost, where we took care of some
of the bolt-on basics.
This included a Flowmaster Outlaw axle back, brand new AIRAID cold air and a set of Eibach
Pro-kit springs.
Needless to say, I think Angelo was pretty impressed with the results.
Angelo: It's crazy how much you can get out of three simple mods.
Justin: Guys, if you haven't seen this video yet, be sure to check it out on americanmuscle.com
or feel free to head over to our YouTube channel, American Muscle Videos, and of course subscribe
if you like what you see.
Moving on, we have been doing some work to our AM race car, the nine second GT that you
guys all know and love.
Recently that thing got a brand new built motor and it's back with a BAMA supercharger
kit with that 2.9 Whipple blower.
Well the boys have been working hard on the tune.
In fact, it recently cracked 900 rear wheel horsepower on the Dyno, pretty much running
out of breath with that small, little 2.9 blower, and they're really excited to get
back down to the track with this thing.
Let's see if we can't beat that 9.90 time, so be sure to stay tuned and keep it right
here for the results.
All right guys, well that's going to wrap up this episode of Hot Lap and I hope to see
every single one of you at our 2015 American Muscle Mustang Show, taking place at Maple
Grove Raceway.
It's our seventh annual show, I cannot believe it and it's going to be our biggest and best
one yet.
Three thousand plus Mustangs, over 15,000 people, appearances by Chip Foose and Vaughn
Gittin Jr. and all benefiting a great cause for Make a Wish.
Now guys, it's going to be a crazy, crazy, day and I really do hope you can make it out
there, but if you can't, well then you have to keep it right here to American Muscle Videos
on our YouTube channel, so you can catch all the action from the show.
Well, in the meantime, I'm out of here, thanks again for watching, and for all things Mustang,
keep it right here to americanmuscle.com.