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Scott’s exhaust went quickly. So quickly, in fact, that there’s only going to be two posts about it — yesterday’s and today’s.
As we said yesterday, this exhaust wasn’t going to be a long job at all, as the downpipes connect to a single 3.5″ pipe via a Y-pipe connection, then the system goes through a muffler before emptying just in front of the rear wheels. On the second day of work, everything up until the muffler was done, as was the tip:
And so work pressed forward. As always, the welds came out pretty darn well. Somebody deserves a gold star!
After the gold stars were applied to fabrication’s report cards, they set about putting everything back together, and here you have it. One completed twin-turbo Explorer exhaust:
The sound, as we mentioned yesterday, has a healthy growl without any drone or obnoxious levels of noise. And the tip, while definitely not in the factory location, is subtle enough to go unnoticed by anybody who doesn’t own an Explorer. Not that the tip matters much in this case; once Scott steps on the pedal, all the other guy will see is tail lights.
Next on the agenda for the TT Explorer is the tuning and the dyno! If there’s one thing your humble narrator enjoys, it’s a good dyno run. Get excited!
As we said yesterday, this exhaust wasn’t going to be a long job at all, as the downpipes connect to a single 3.5″ pipe via a Y-pipe connection, then the system goes through a muffler before emptying just in front of the rear wheels. On the second day of work, everything up until the muffler was done, as was the tip:
And so work pressed forward. As always, the welds came out pretty darn well. Somebody deserves a gold star!
After the gold stars were applied to fabrication’s report cards, they set about putting everything back together, and here you have it. One completed twin-turbo Explorer exhaust:
The sound, as we mentioned yesterday, has a healthy growl without any drone or obnoxious levels of noise. And the tip, while definitely not in the factory location, is subtle enough to go unnoticed by anybody who doesn’t own an Explorer. Not that the tip matters much in this case; once Scott steps on the pedal, all the other guy will see is tail lights.
Next on the agenda for the TT Explorer is the tuning and the dyno! If there’s one thing your humble narrator enjoys, it’s a good dyno run. Get excited!
