The 4 eyed ugly younger sister....the 1959!

[Fabulous50s]

Rich, hahahaha. There are plenty of Frenchmen around here! I'm only 1/8 French....so that's enough to make fun 

I'm 20 minutes from the Canadian border.

[CobraJoe]

Faboulous, where are you, if you don't mind me asking? You near Fort Kent?

[Fabulous50s]

Presque Isle.

[CobraJoe]

Okay, I assumed you were up in the Allagash and were South of Canada, not to the West. I always forget that it also borders the Eastern part of Maine. Nice country up that way.

[Fabulous50s]

Bringing this thread back as winter projects are moving along.

Removed the unbelievably restrictive Y-pipe and factory unbelievably silent muffler and the rest.

[mustang6984]

UGH! Looked ugly to boot! Should be a happier engine now that it will be able to breathe!   

[Fabulous50s]

Pulled the 3 speed for an extra gear to be added.

Going with a car SMOD which was known as the town and country overdrive. No burnouts in my future, just excessive noise!

[mustang6984]

T-85OD?

[59meteor]

Bringing this thread back as winter projects are moving along.

Removed the unbelievably restrictive Y-pipe and factory unbelievably silent muffler and the rest.

What are you going to use for exhaust? On my 59 Tudor, which was the original 332 2 barrel FordOMatic, yeah, the Y pipe was really skinny and kinked, When I swapped to the 428CJ, I installed a set of FPA headers, and had a local exhaust shop fabricate a custom 2 1/2" dual exhaust system, with DynaMax Turbo mufflers, and the tailpipes dump behind the rear tires. It sounds pretty good, but a bit loud on the freeway at 2600 RPM. (or if a Police car is in the next lane!)

[Fabulous50s]

T170F out of a Granada. Car ratio, not the truck ratio which is bigger gap between 2nd and 3rd.


I have a 2-1/4" mandrel bend universal kit which I'll weld up to get over the axle etc. Going to have the local shop bend from the manifolds to wherever I cannot make the kit work.

Plan is to use Flowmaster FX (Borla knockoffs) rounds and put the mufflers behind the rear tires in the "mud opening". Goong to do a GM style angle dump tailpipe out of 2-1/4" 304 stainless pipe and polish it. Exit will be just before the bumper. I've got some of it mocked up right now, but haven't bought the mufflers yet.

[brushwolf]

Be interested to see the exhaust take shape. I also purchased the mandrel bent universal kit intending to weld it together.

I have the larger 400 exhaust manifolds on a 351c and so I purchased 2 universal kits to be sure to have enough pieces to work it from manifolds back to the rear. Also purchased a replacement y pipe from a 70's era 400 powered PU, only thing I could find to give me new header pipes and retainers.

Good heavy gauge pipe, but the bends are not mandrel bent, so I just cut it up to about 6 inches from the manifold outlets on both sides to get rid of all the crimped bends.

Since my car is a convertible, I have the X-frame to pass through front and rear. 2 1/4" appears to be the largest I can easily install due to the limited clearance in those 4 spots. Never thought about putting the mufflers at the back (which is where they are on my 62 TBird), but since I already have the factory heat shields in place, I will probably stick with the factory muffler placement.

Are you installing an H or X pipe in your exhaust?  I plan on an H pipe for simplicity on mine, but just clamping it instead of welding in case removal is required down the road.

[gasman826]

Flowmaster Universal Stainless Kit with Flowmaster stainless mufflers.

[lalessi1]

I have the FPA headers, 2.5" system w/ x pipe and Borla mufflers. Exits at the bumper corners. I found having the exits behind the tires made my system resonate a bit much for me.

[Fabulous50s]

I'm not sure, but it looks as if the '57 has more clearance to the floor than the '59 does.

My goal is to not have any of the exhaust lower than the frame in any place. The loooooong wheelbase of my FORDoor means I already have some curb rash on the bottom of the frame from last summer. Dont want to catch any exhaust.

Lynn, your exhaust looks fantastic! Did a local shop do that? Is it 2.25" or 2.5"? I'm hoping for something similar. Would like to keep the pipe close to the driveshaft as there is more clearance there than outboard near the frame on my '59.

[lalessi1]

Yes a local shop did mine. It is 2 1/2". Since that pic was taken I had 2 bolt flanges installed before the mufflers and I extended the headers for better clearance (so I can easily unbolt the center section). The entire system is above the bottom of the frame.