Custom Exhaust Fabrication - LSx C10 Project Truck Build

[@RonCovell]

Alan - I think this is one of the best videos you have made! You gave in-depth coverage of the complex details of designing and fabricating an intricate and unique system, and the narration and visual aspects are exceptional! I already use masking tape a lot for various tasks, but you showed some unique applications I hadn't thought of. I'll be eager to see the 'big reveal' of the product you are working on for marking cuts on U-bends.

[@MidwestRider559]

Does this seriously only have 17K views and 45 comments?? You deserve way more with the amount of time and effort put in, and the great explanation

[@jodydewey]

I LOVE your videos. You explain everything VERY well.

[@aarondavidsmith208]

Best exhaust video I have so far. Thank you.

[@rebwar08]

Thank you so much for this video

[@manueljmenchaca7649]

Great video

[@cwmotorsports4497]

Great video! Thanks

[@josh47807]

Looks good

[@metalbob3335]

To innovate is to be unsatisfied with the mundane . I like this dive into exhaust systems. Solid job between you and your father.

[@HotRodHippie]

Thank you very much. Glad you appreciated this look at the project.

[@hardball107]

Great job on the exhaust, I weld 'em up to but I use stainless and a MIG. I fit the pipes with band clamps that have windows in them and space the tubes1/16" apart, crank the gas up and fill the space with stainless wire. We aren't talking about sanitary welding here and my system seems to work very well, I just move and weld at an angle forward of the weld pool to preheat and purge. There's a little sugar on the inside of the weld but never a broken pipe or had anything shake apart and the first system I did is still working 11 years later

[@shadowrockcairns8390]

This guy knows his business, wow! Good job Alan

[@kavonikovcustoms1911]

This is by far the best exhaust video I have seen on youtube. Thank you!

[@wht240sxka]

Just found you. Highly underrated channel. Great content. Thanks! Subbed!!

[@jackperry9369]

Thanks sir for the content real life stuff simple

[@DannyVillagrana]

That’s a really good video cool exhaust!!!

[@cwmotorsports4497]

Nice

[@tinygaragefab]

I'm about to do exhaust on my '72 C-10 this weekend. I might use a tip or two from this video. Thanks, bro!

[@chriscoesbodyshop]

Very nice work!

[@wyattoneable]

Wow Alan I think this exercise in fabrication is one of your best. At least the video made it look that way. Very well executed, both the build and the video.

[@arbot1]

Great information! Thanks for the time, I'm considering tackling my LSx 66 C10 exhaust now.... Porterbuilt front & rear suspension, I'd like to go out the back of the truck somehow.... this gives me a clean option to consider! thanks again!

[@HouseofChop]

Awesome video Alan. I finally got a moment to watch it. Those trucks don’t leave a whole lot of room between the frame rails and you made it look vast with how well you planned it all out. Transverse mufflers and side exits through custom tips… hell yeah. Exceptional as always 🔥👍🏼🔥

[@andrewsparks4112]

Thank you for the video. When you have time, would like to see how you do stainless.

[@king0cans]

Beautiful work. The camera work and editing is crazy good

[@HotRodHippie]

Thank you very much. I strive for that so it’s great to hear. 🙏🏻

[@ODGColornChrome]

Awesome! Been waiting for a full length vid! Great work!

[@seanalexander9531]

Great video Alan, thanks. I used to make MB exhausts a decade or so ago but this is a nice refresher for when I build one for my 4EFTE powered Mini :)

[@alexreifschneider6709]

Nice clean work!

[@ChaoticBigAl]

Great video ! Very helpful !

[@garagemonkeysan]

Great video. That exhaust design is cool and clean. Mahalo for sharing! 🙂🐒

[@fastrucken1555]

I did a crossover tube on a turbo LS using the speedway motors j bend mandrel tubing and also thought the consistency of the diameter in the bends were not great.... Will also be reading comments to see what others recommend

[@shadysh8s]

Lyles stainless exhaust in Ontario Canada.

[@rwbodiford]

Hope to see you back sometime soon man, I miss your videos! Question, on those urethane grommet mounts... have you had an issues with those melting on this project, or others you've used them on? I've seen mixed reviews about them melting, I'm looking to use them in about the same manner/ distance from pipe as you've used them by the trailing arm crossmember, and don't want to end up having to change it because the mounts failed....

[@johnreddick413]

I would be more interested in seeing your hand design process than the cad but I will watch both lol

[@ponchopelayo77]

Please come back! Miss your videos

[@HotRodHippie]

Sadly I don't have any upcoming videos here. Sooner or later I'll make more, but I cannot afford to do so for now. However I make almost weekly KZbin videos still (and have for years now) on my 2 other channels. Mostly focused around 3d Printing and "Making" things with 3D printing (including parts for the 65 GMC). MandicReally (new Main Channel): kzbin.info Mandic Labs (streaming / technical channel): www.youtube.com/@MandicLabs

[@ponchopelayo77]

Thanks I will check those out for sure, your videos helped me a lot when I started working on sheet metal, I also made some crazy sheet metal on my 63 gmc,

[@briangoudreau5793]

I use raceparts solutions for some and ace race parts most of the time

[@jsshayes1]

Great video as usual. Would you MIG or TIG this exhaust in general (the mild steel one, I understand the stainless needs to be TIG) or does it depend?

[@HotRodHippie]

I’d normally TIG weld entirely. As I didn’t anticipate doing this exhaust on this trip I ended up having to MIG it. Which is fine, just not my preference personally.

[@kingrigby1]

Very similar to what I’m doing on my 64 except I’m using pie cuts instead on mandrel bend tubing because I hate my life. lol.

[@brysontrotman5865]

Do you have any tips on starting to weld with flux core for body work. I know for body work it is best to use mig with gas but I simply dont have access to that right now. Thanks!

[@HotRodHippie]

Practice welding as low of "Temperature" settings as you can. Practice practice practice. Flux core automatically welds hotter at a given setting so it is going to be a challenge and an uphill battle but you've got to do what you've got to do. I prefer not to MIG anything, especially not body work personally but my ideals aren't your situation.

[@brysontrotman5865]

@@HotRodHippie Thank you for the reply/advice!

[@joell439]

👍😎👍

[@RoddyDa]

I sucked at math my entire life and now I know why….it was never related to me in exhaust bending terms

[@lilpoindexter]

Why the hell arent you still making videos?

[@HotRodHippie]

It cost me money to make videos. After years of effort they never paid the bills and I could not justify continuing. Making videos about building cars is requires building cars, which is expensive. Most successful folks in this game have shops that pay the bills and they just make videos on the side. Or they blew up and make so much off videos they don't have to worry about the rest. I make videos for a living now, about 3D Printing & making things with 3D Printing. It pays my bills and doesn't cost me an arm and a leg to make every video: kzbin.info} I will still make videos here, they will just be few and far between.

[@williamb454]

Blah,Blah, Blah!!

[@HotRodHippie]

👌🏻👌🏻 I’ll be sure to draw cartoons next time I do a tutorial. Maybe that’ll resonate better.

[@fruitloops2547]

You’d probably get more views if you showed the truck more and less you

[@AwesomeBuford]

Dude, is your tongue split?

[@gilhernandez605]

Actually not "math" but geometry

[@HotRodHippie]

Geometry (from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría): is a branch of MATHematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.

[@gilhernandez605]

@@HotRodHippie BLAH BLAH BLAH you know what I mean do you use Trigonometry or physics while building exhausts - I would thing not.

[@HotRodHippie]

@@gilhernandez605 if you don’t understand that Figuring out angles of triangles (the most basic geometry / trigonometry that fabricators do DAILY), is a part of building an exhaust like this, I don’t know what to tell you. And Physics? Understand how forced applied to an object will effect it is important. You just don’t view the way you interact with the world in the context of scientific principles. If you slow down and open your mind up a bit you’d realize just how much you really do. Knowing how a piece of metal will react when you apply force to it (grinding, hammering, saw) is a form of understanding physics…

[@MrBReal-xc7qm]

BORING to say the least. the only thing that had any merit was the V-bands. BUT that's just an opinion of an old school pipe hanger from the 80's