i found some at a local shop or cheap, all chrome super clean look. i am gonna let the clamps im using now ride it out.... the tunuea cover kinda hides the rest

 

Stack looks good! looks like a good clean setup man, hope you like listening to that thing all the time, it will get annoying

 

Let's see here, about $50 worth of aluminum and problably about 45 minutes on the laser cutter/lathe, that's too high of bling for me also. I can make my own clamp alot cheaper. Some people are willing to just to spend their money.

 

I just did stacks on my dually and holy mother mary of god it's loud. I'm already sick of listening to the raspy 3rd gen sound though. Seriously thinking about converting to a 24v exhaust manifold and re-piping the turbo. Other than that I love my stacks. Hope to see everyone in H-Town Saturday.

 

I totally agree! With $10,000 - $20,000 worth of machine, lathe, mill, laser cutting, polishing equipment. Then a shop/garage to install and power the equipment, experience using all of it and a little time(45 minutes might be a little optimistic) you can probably produce close to the same thing. That quality aluminum block might be closer to $75 though. Not sure you can match the precision of CNC machine, but that is dependent on skill and not necessarily machine.

 

What kind of muffler did you use if any?? I tried going straight pipe to sing.stack and yeah it was loud. It did sound good though!!! I work swing shift and my nieghbors would probably hunt me down and kill me for stirring the dead. If I didn't have the close nieghbors of a track type, I'd keep the straight. I reinstalled the muff. I got in my original ex. kit, I don't know the brand but it's 24" long, inside has peforations to catch some air. It was advertised as a high perf. flowing muff., it does the job of toning it down on decibels.

 

I used the Aero Turbine 5050XL on my single. The sound is very good and outside the truck it is not nearly as loud as it is in the cab. Mine does calm down to acceptible level once you have hit cruising speed and when it does there is no drone. But acceleration is pretty loud and I don't even want to think what towing a real load would sound like in the cab.

 

You have no clue

 

Looks sweet Nice job!

 

I didn't go into every freakin' detail. I've work around a machine shop (it's located within the companies property where I work at). Like I said, I can make my own clamp ALOT cheaper!!!

Why do you and others have to try and make people on this forum look like fools?? I was just agreeing with the person on the price of the clamp. Ya know some of the high prices is because some will pay that. It's just like the housing market, the bidding wars-paying way too much and now can't pay the mortgage payment.

This is all I'm going to type on this person's thread. Just try and respect others opinions and ask questions 1st before you call someone a dummy or worse. If you have more to say, pm me.

 

There is a business close to me that carries hardware and scrap aluminum/steel. When I want to fab something out of alum., most of the time they have what I need. I'd rather make the bling myself instead of buying it, it might look similar but it won't be exact.

On the cost of machinery, depends what company's name is on it. It's costly to say the least, but after awhile it's paid for and many times over depending on products/prices.

 

its LOUD! I drove it around some today and its noisy theres no doubt. I keep checking to see if I have the back slider open . I mainly done it for competition events like you did I dont want to mess with an elbow all the time

 

bump...bump...how is that short video coming along? Lets see some smoke rollin out of that stack too

 

Everytime I see people putting stacks on and think that they look so cool, I really want to put a 6" or 7" miter cut stack on my dually. But then I hop in my buddys with stacks, and their is soot in the cab, all over leather, all over the truck and not to mention that it makes a really bad mess in my shop! So needless to say that truck gets pulled out of the shop before it is fired up.

But man they look cool and sound sweet!

Also sweet job on your stack!

 

Sorry just got busy at work trying to make sure I could take Friday and Saturday off for the DHRA Texas Nationals in Baytown, TX. this past weekend. I still have to get my video mounted in the bed for a close up and personal look at the stack sound and HIGH DOLLAR Bling, Bling rain cap in action. I promise to do that this weekend if it is not raining still.

Here are a couple of videos from the DHRA event, to far away to tell anything but I will get one done.

One with good quick spool up:

http://video.competitiondiesel.com/v...330130acc0.htm

One with problem spooling up and my red light elmination.

http://video.competitiondiesel.com/v...3301332c78.htm