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Finally got my stacks!! ~~~ PICS~~~

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Perfection if i do say so myself.......
This bed kit is far and above anything you can buy IMO. I think i will start making these to sell.
Under the truck the 4" nipple down goes to a short piece (8") of flex pipe, then a hard pipe 90* bend to the straight piece running to the engine. Worked out very nice other than i had to widen out the hole in the bed (that pissed me off) because we mis measured something and to center the stax, we had to widen the hole to move it over 1/4"

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I am curious my self with stacks what do you do about water. You dont want it to sit there eventualy rusting a hole from constant heat cool water cycles.:thumb:
i was shooting for the perfection level you have :dunno:
It ain't easy... :lol:

Seriously though they look great!
Now my concern is what to do about rain getting in these stacks?
I considered a small hole - 1/16" - in the pipe under the truck and the lowest point to drain water when we get that occasional 5" turd floater rain. Any thoughs? Maybe that much water would drain by itself at the lowest joint in the pipe under the truck?
I'm not worried about it filling up but just don't want a huge puddle in the pipe when i start it up.
Those look slick Clay :thumb:

As far as the rain goes Clay, you answered your own question. You'll never have to worry about the pipes actually filling up with water unless the truck sees a hurricane for some reason. The only thing that will happen is when you start it, you'll get black water marks all over the truck :nod:........I really like the 45 degree cuts instead of the 90 manderal bent turns :thumb:

Ok, so I'm sure you know this is coming.......but now we need video :popcorn2: :hehe::hehe:


It ain't easy... :lol:

Seriously though they look great!
:rolleyes::rolleyes:................:hehe:
yah i agree with Julian.... we need some smoke pics or a video :)





nice stacks. do these increase performance?
Maybe a couple of horses can be found with the decreased exhaust travel, but besides the "cool factor" they really help in lowering EGT's faster :nod:
Dam, you guys are never happy...all this preasure to get them installed to please you all and now you want more?! :lol:
Theres one smoke pic on page 1
When it warms up a bit, i'll have my buddy ride in the bed with my video camera and film some coal rolling and fire breathin footage. :D Maybe as i drive into a tunnel! :thumb:
I don't think he;ll have much fun doing that today though, its pretty mild at a balmy 30 degrees but in the bed of the truck doing 60 mph it may be a tad niply.
Dam, you guys are never happy...all this preasure to get them installed to please you all and now you want more?! :lol:
Theres one smoke pic on page 1
When it warms up a bit, i'll have my buddy ride in the bed with my video camera and film some coal rolling and fire breathin footage. :D Maybe as i drive into a tunnel! :thumb:
I don't think he;ll have much fun doing that today though, its pretty mild at a balmy 30 degrees but in the bed of the truck doing 60 mph it may be a tad niply.
Nah... 30's aren't bad, I've ridden my bike down in the 20's and he's got the coal to warm him up.
I don't think he;ll have much fun doing that today though, its pretty mild at a balmy 30 degrees but in the bed of the truck doing 60 mph it may be a tad niply.
There comes a time in every man's life were they have to make sacrifices for the better-ment of others :hehe:
In my haste to get these mounted last night i completely forgot i had bought some black high heat paint to cover the header below the chrome lines. It will rust for sure so i will have to take them out this weekend maybe and paint that. They come put in 5 minutes with an air ratchet...4 bolts on the Ubolt clamps and one clamp on the flex hose under the bed and they lift right out. :thumb: I will get 2 more U bolt clamps for the pipe up higher close to the bed top rail and put those on too.
Looks great Clay!!!!!!!! :nod::thumb::thumb:
Clay, looks great.

FYI for you 7.3 guys, doing your stacks this way will kill alot of the flutter you have. My 95 was done like this and all you could hear was a screaming turbo, no senior citizen sittin on a portapotty with a plastic bag attached sound.
I agree about the rain. I have never had a problem with it, even after hurrican ike dumped all that rain...
no senior citizen sittin on a portapotty with a plastic bag attached sound.
That has to be one of the grossest things I have ever heard :hehe:
That has to be one of the grossest things I have ever heard :hehe:
Ditto and its 20 minutes till my lunch :barf:
Man that is a nice bed kit. GJ Clay...
i was shooting for the perfection level you have :dunno:

You'll have to slow the truck down for that level...

nice job, :thumb:



added some pics to page 1 - forgot i took these on my phone while we were in the shop welding this mess together.
The guy in the pic is my buddy Scott...his welding rig is idetical to my dually excepts its an 03 7.3 and i have tryed to get him on the forum but he don't even own a computer...:hehe: hes a little rednecker than me. :lol:
You'll have to slow the truck down for that level...

nice job, :thumb:

:hehe: :hehe:

:sofa:

Na seriously, JW is my mentor....i think i'll go home tonight and loosen all my pan bolts about 1/2 turn and see if i can get that oil thing goin on like his. :hehe:
:hehe: :hehe:

:sofa:

Na seriously, JW is my mentor....i think i'll go home tonight and loosen all my pan bolts about 1/2 turn and see if i can get that oil thing goin on like his. :hehe:

I'm wondering if JW got his Christmas present tuned...



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