Side pipes on a riv!!!!!

this looks killer. If I go the "old skool" route I gotta get these. Stupid ? but will you burn yourself easily?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOBF7rr02YE&NR=1

 

I want to do that to my new 69 sport wagon. I guess you would have to make them up yourself. Car is primer gray. paint the pipes red. what ya think?

 

Looks like there is a shield over the pipe (ala mid year Corvette); if the pipe is exposed you WILL burn yourself if you touch it.

I had side pipes on my Chevelle back in the day and my sister burned her leg pretty bad getting out of the back seat.

K

 

They seem a little short for the boattail. My concern goes to the fact that a Riviera sits low already, and adding the big pipes on the sides like that just leaves more metal to drag on speed bumps.
I used to like the look of sidepipes back in the day. Remember the ones Thrush used to sell with the rectangular outlets?

 

here ya go just sroll down



http://www.layitlow.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=168117&hl=electra&st=40

http://www.layitlow.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=168117&hl=electra&st=80

 

I think I'll put 'em on my Cat...yeh a 4 Dr. with side pipes..nice... uzzled: Pop..naw you won't get burned unless you stick your tongue on it... :laugh: They do look good on a Riv though.

 

Hulk ,ya pics do not show for me. Square ends, ohhhhh. I am concerned about the scraping issues. Do they have to be fabbed up or is ther a kit available (WITH SHIELDS)???

 

Jason, The shield is real important. I've had two corvettes over the years with side pipes. If not for the shields, I'd be missing a lot of skin under my left thigh and shins. Believe me, they get red hot, and you need the shields.

Another option is to just leave them under the car and come out ahead or behind the rear wheels. If I was you I'd come out behind the rear wheels with 3" pipes and flowmasters behind that. It would sound good, look bad, and no worries about going to the hospital with burns on your legs.

Incidentally, if you want to come up Saturday/Sunday and visit/stay overnight, Mike Garrison from Kansas is supposed to be delivering my 70 Stage1. This is the culmination of buying that car in Japan on Ebay when I lived in China back in 2006. I feel like baking a cake.

I also have a guy who's supposed to be coming with an excavator to start digging out a straighter creek bed so things could be going on that are interesting.

Before, you said you'd like to visit, this weekend may be a good time as the stars have seemed to align for interesting things. Sorry about short notice. You're welcome to stay at the cabin overnight. And we should go out on the ATVs. A friend and I took them out at 1am a few days ago and it was awesome in the dark. Maybe the beer had something to do with it but it would have been cool without that too, driving on the trails through the fog. I think we could discuss logistics and timing for a larger regional get together that would take more planning.

 

fixed. just scroll down the pages you'll see a black one and a silver one.

 

thats what i got and they dont scrape.

 

P.M. sent Mike. It would be nice to see your place and meet Mike, but this is a bad weekend. I might be able to escape for a few hours as my mom live about 80 mi. from you and that's where I'm headed. When do you expect Mike??

Howard, got pics????

 

here's my photo album.
but you can barely see the exhaust. i'll try to get together some better shots.
honestly, the corvette-style pipes are tough to beat, looks-wise.
semis have those stacks that are like 12 feet long. maybe you could strip an old peterbuilt...

 

The best set up that I have seen ''back in the day'' was pipes that came down the side with the actual exhaust pipe welded in about a foot before the end of the side pipe, from the back so you could not see it. This kept from heating up the part where you get in and out of the car.... also If hooked up at the front most side pipes [we called them lakes pipes back then] will turn blue and then peel right where the front elbow is... if you run them ''hot'' ,in wet weather the mud will bake on them and be a bear to clean... the best heat shield would be a piece of stainless steel with holes in it, rolled to fit around the pipe , and with a hinge at the top so you could raise it up to clean. like the heat shield on a .50 cal. machine gun.....

 

A full vinyl roof on a model year 1973 Riviera, so there are more out there......