Hello everybody! Good day to you! Welcome back! Glad you guys are here! I Knew I'm glad to be here. We are returning to Project Mustang This is our 1998 Ford 4.6 liter Mustang GT In the last episode here, we'll go up there. In the last episode, we put a bunch of nice shiny new engine components to increase the air intake. And in this episode we're gonna put on some shiny new exhaust components to increase the air exhaust.

because why not we have intake. We now have exhaust. We have some brakes almost. Uh, still waiting on some parts on this, but we're getting there and we rebuilt the front end.

Uh, if you want to go back and look at any of those prior episodes, they will be down inside of this video's description. uh, below. So anyway, all that being said, let's get let's get in the air. I Got a feeling we're gonna have to break out the saw.

This thing down here is cross-ematic Take a look super duper. Rusty So we're probably just gonna have to cut those off. Cut this off. Get rid of all these pipes, Get rid of the tips, Get rid of the hangers, Get rid of the brackets.

Throw that stuff out because we're going to install the shiny new equipment. Located on our work table, we have a couple new stainless brushed looking tips. I Think are these stainless? Yeah, they look stainless. We've got some stainless tips, we've got some over axle pipes, and we've got the pipes that are supposed to connect to the collectors on the existing catalytic converters.

So let's go ahead and start the demo process. Let's get this stuff torn apart, cut off, removed, throw it in the trash, and then we'll get the new goodies installed. So stay tuned because this is going to be a very good Mustang Video Here's our brake rotor. There was a brake Rudder All right.

getting a little close here we can see on the part we're removing these bolts are that's pretty nasty. Um, we're supposed to on thread these from here because this uh, collar on the back side of this has to stay shoe. What? I think I'm gonna do is chop these off and then we'll work on getting, uh, getting this bolt out of this thing. I may have just bitten off more knocks of chew because it's worse than I thought it was.

Anyway, let's get this thing cut off. I Mean there is a nut here, but we have to fight these threads to get through it. and then I gotta put a Fastener on this. So I'm just going to chop them off.

We're gonna lose this Beginning Chopping Loud noises now. Safety: Squints Engaged All right. I Realized very quickly that uh, worn out saw blade wasn't going to cut it no pun intended. continuing.

All right, Pow. All right, got one. Let's get the one on the inside next. All right.

let's maneuver around over here to the other side and then we'll get a good cut on this one. Chop that guy off and uh, we'll get the passenger side beginning. Loud noises, please. Foreign? All right.

No. I Mean to be fair, that wasn't a new battery, so it's fine. Got it. Everything's a hammer.

Okay, now that we have the front taken care of, let's go around and work on the back. There's a couple hangers at the tips right here and I believe they are bolt-on hangers. so let's get those guys disconnected switching tools to a little impact. so the rear exhaust.

Hangers On The pipes here are bolted on with 10 mils so we're gonna bolt those off and I'll save the rubber. Exhaust is falling down there. we go. All right.

Well, that was effective. Let's go over here and get to the driver's side and see how effective this is. There we go, Looks like the pipes are coming down too, so they are becoming detached from the converter, right? So I believe it's mostly disconnected with the exception of one rubber hanger per side on the muffler. So let's get these hangers detached and pushed away.

and then we can pull this assembly out from out of the vehicle here. and I actually have like a special tool for that. It's designed to pull the hanger off of the Uh steel Mount thing right here. see how that works? Got it mostly a little bit more or it's designed to push them out off the rubber part one way or the other, it comes apart.

It's easier than not using a pry bar. So that guy's out. let me fetch my tool. It's good to go on the driver's side, swing it over one more time, hit you guys to the rear end to our passenger side and we can repeat procedure.

We'll just squeeze right on in there. It's kind of a tight squeeze, but we can fit that guy right through. Come on, Go Go Go! This rubber is like deteriorated and dry rotted. If I need to reuse these hangers I'll have to order new ones later I Haven't gone through the kit enough to see but I don't know if it has Replacements or if these are reused or what we do here.

Come on through Dry rotted piece of junk. There it goes there. It is again, much easier than using a pry bar. Okay, so that pipe is hanging down.

Let's reposition here and see if we can't walk this thing out from uh from Over the axle right here I might have to cut that off to get it out. In fact, it's probably easier to just cut it out. Saw us all the time I don't always saw Zaw but when I do loud Timber Well that makes this a whole lot easier. Look at that.

just right up and over there we go. All right. the driver's side's next. We're gonna cut it in roughly the same spot right there behind the muffler.

Well, we're committed now. Parts are being chopped off. This blade is junk. Well, this has junk.

Bottom half's okay. let's try it here. Got it. And our over axle pipe just comes right over the axle here.

Let's scooch up and try to get some of these Fasteners off that I chopped off earlier I broke them free with a wrench so they might turn. Let's find out. All right, that one came out cool. Let's try the inside one see if that guy's gonna come out of there.

Yes! I already got that one. This one has not broken free just yet I don't know about uh I don't know about that one yet. but I'm gonna try. I've got some turbo Super rounded off.

Dig in and destroy the Fastener wrenches here. All the MC turbo wrenches. see if I can get that thing to break loose here. towel on the wrench to protect my fingers and I'm straight armed.

See that it's going to give it a hole with two straight arms using my body weight. Click. see that. dug into the nut.

it broke the bolt free from the back side. It was all rusted on. So now this is going to spin around. a little uh, little tab right there.

See that when that spins around and it contacts the pipe, you can try to put some reverse pressure on this and it's folding through. No, it's not. It's turning sweet. Thought: we were about to fold up that uh little tab thing and that Tad's locking the other side in position here.

See that Full Send: No mercy. So starting from the beginning: I Know that Uh, one of these flanges goes over these pipes right here. and I think it's backwards. So and then this will fit up to the existing Plumbing on the vehicle.

So that works. It's gonna plug in right there like that. so at least we know that goes on there. Which means this one goes on this one in the same configuration.

Huh? Performance? Uh-huh Okay, well, it's not performing very well. Is it there? We go? All right. let's go try to bolt these on just so they're in place and then we'll hang the mufflers and then we'll do the over axle pipes. We're not going to clamp anything just yet.

we just need to mock it all up and then see how it all fits. Then everything has to be adjusted, Then we can put it together and tighten it down. So I'm going to apply some logic here. We have one pipe is longer than the other pipe.

See that? So this right here is the short pipe. Now, according to our H-pipe assembly here, we've got one longer than the other. So it stands to reason that the short pipe will become attached to the longer pipe and then the longer pipe will become attached to the shorter pipe now. hopefully.

I Don't end up with some like major flaw in my logic here. I Don't think I will. and if so, I'll take it apart and do it again because I Love my job. Two bolts are through.

Let's get them on the existing flange here that's on our converters. Plug that guy in. we'll start the nut and the washer, thread that on so it can't fall off and then we'll grab the uh, other side over there. Yeah, no mention of such things in the destructions.

It was pretty much here's all your parts and what we call them. Good luck, figure it out, and enjoy! Thanks for purchasing. Get in there! Bolt Come on. Okay, this one bolt looks like it's too long.

see that it's hitting this uh little H-pipe crossover business here. Hmm, it's not gonna work there. Maybe it's no that's gonna hit. So I need to do something about that later also.

But for now, I'm gonna put the nut on so it doesn't go anywhere. Okay, next, backing up some and get the Mufflers in position here. Okay Muffler Number one coming in. now.

one side of these is lettered and the other side is not lettered. So I'm going to make the assumption that the lettered side will be pointing down that way we can see. so we're gonna slide that on and I think it goes I don't even know. Maybe like right here.

let's try this. Let's try right here for now. Set it down on the pole Jack without scratching it I don't like any of this. Okay I know I will pull Jack the uh, the pipe and not the muffler and let the muffler just kind of dangle right there on the pipe.

That's what we're gonna do and since this is all over the place, I'm gonna go ahead and tighten up. uh, this first clamp right here a little bit and take away some of that slop. it's everywhere I Don't intend to make it so tight where it doesn't move anymore, but I do need to get uh, you need to button it up a little bit. it's just too loose there.

That's a little better. Same thing on this other side too already. Okay now I can maneuver these and manipulate them and they're not just going to fall around. flippy flop all willy-nilly like there.

Now we can try for those. Mufflers Okay, let's fit this pipe in next just to get it all mocked up. I'll put both pipes in thing. we'll get both pipes in and both Mufflers see how it all fits together.

Can't even get this pipe over the axle. What is this? What's this problem? Axle pipe? All you got to do like the spin, move and flip it around. There we go. Got it all right? One is over and kind of hung up.

That's gonna go like right. in that position. So let's get the other one over its axle tube. try to hang that one up next.

I had to do like this flip it over spin juke move thing. Get this that other side to fit and that one goes a little bit better. Okay so moving forward, this will be one of them situations where you kind of go with what you know and what we know at this point is this hanger goes in this hanger now I Understand that this rubber hanger is kind of gross, but I don't have a replacement right now. but I can change that out uh after I order one.

so whoa gravity. so we shall proceed. I Need to get this mocked up a little bit here. Um, we've got space like right here for another.

Muffler So let's try to get that other one fitted. but we need to do that from over here this angle because I cannot reach. Let's try this. Okay other high performance exhaust piece.

uh that goes in there. how's this all gonna fit That goes up there? Which means this has to come over here. Which means the letters have to point up. So my theory on the lettering was, uh, incorrect.

It has to point in the upward Direction. Now let's see. put that in there more upward action. Need to squeeze these guys together.

Get in there pipe there we go. All right that's going in Okay, so this isn't exactly working out like I thought. So I'm gonna go ahead and unbolt this flange right here and take this back off. Yeah, this all the stuff's kind of binding up and I can't get uh I'm gonna take this back off there.

we go. Get that out of there. It's just there's too much going on to make sense of it right now. So let's move that aside.

What I mean by that is I'm gonna get the hangers re-hung or the rear hangers hung because the rear hangers are going to locate the rest of this pipe and help me get it fitted. Because that's going to help me determine what angle to put. uh, the direction of these. Mufflers So it looks like we're doing this from the back to the front.

Sure. I'm gonna fetch our other pipe over here because this one has an integrated hanger onto the top of it right there. See that? So that's our rear hanger. That guy slides in like so let's pull the set screw out a little bit.

Actually, it's going to go this way like that. Okay, so let us take this and go to the that pipe right there. that's the one that it goes on. so we need to fit this on here and then this up here and then that over our little mount bushing grommet thing that I took off.

So I need to put that back On real quick too. So here I need to put a little rubber hanger back on I Have the bolts here. Add the bolts Here There Goes One 10 milli that's our bracket. There's that other bolt I found it.

Put that back. Okay, this is gonna help us stay aligned here. So now you can get the tip. I have that wrong.

Also, it's all wrong. So now maybe I can get it right. Take the tip. how's this work out? Does it go? It goes like that.

This runs all the way through up into that hole up there. It doesn't fit very well. We'll be problem now. Fitment slight fitment problem.

Yeah. You know what though, This whole thing's a fitment problem. Brand new parts. Come on.

Come on. aftermarket installer. put the thing in the hole there. it's kind of in.

it's on the end. It's unlike the tip no pun intended. Yeah, see that one won't go, won't go in. it's getting hung up on there.

We go now. I Got her. Okay, it looks like this thing is running into some of the bumper right here. Also, maybe that'll straighten out.

Maybe it won't We'll see anyway. now that these, uh, over axle pipes are over the axle, that's where that one goes. That's good. Let's try the 50 mufflers and that uh, that front pipe on next.

again. Okay, so again, our Muffler with the angles, it's got to come over to go forward. So we're gonna do it. this one through here.

that's going to place this Muffler kind of in line with that pipe over there. So let's try to fit that front pipe in and see if that mocks up and uh, it works out for us I don't know. go all the way in. yeah, kinda sure, that's that's about as good as it's gonna get.

Okay bolts coming in again on this flange, see if we can't, uh, get these things close to being tight and then we'll try to line everything up as best we can put in there. You know that's the thing about stuff like this is if we don't achieve a good alignment at the tailpipe, it's all for nothing because it's got to look good I Don't care what it performs like, if it doesn't look good, then you don't need to be there. Okay, so that seems to be in line. It's got a straight path to exit, so I believe that's the correct position.

the muffler seems to fit. so I'm gonna go ahead and just slide these clamps over the muffler. they're going to clamp on right here and right at the end. I'm not going to tighten them down yet because we need to check tailpipe Fitness at the back.

Like I said, it's all got to fit and if it's ugly at the tailpipes, then it doesn't matter what we did below the car, it's got to look good at the pipes. Show thread on there. please. Again, we're just going to mock all this up.

One other thing is these types of clamps. These u-bolt clamps. Once you clamp them, that's a kind of permanent like they. they look like they can be detached and reused.

The clamps can be reused yet. But the problem is is the pipe. See when you tighten this down, it's going to put a kink in the pipe on the top side and the bottom side. And once that Kink is there, these two pipes are kind of smashed together and they won't release still.

Before installing one of these guys, you need to make sure that these clamps are exactly where you want them and that the pipes are exactly where you want them. Okay, and naturally we're going to try to hide that clamp up so we can't see it from the bottom side. Plus, we don't like to have you know, U-bolts dangling out of the bottom of the car like that. That looks gross.

We don't want that. So we go to set all this up. We want it to be kind of up there. If it can be done, it can't always be done that way.

For example, this front one, if I try to set that up I might not be able to get it tight. We'll see I'll try it. We'll see anyway. Let's get the other side next.

Okay, so the muffler is still in place over here. I've already gone and taken the liberty of setting up the Uh exhaust tailpipe on this side and the intermediate pipe or over axle pipe is supported uh with this jack stand right here. That's going to give good alignment on our hanger right here and it kind of puts the muffler over where it needs to be. So let's take this flange back loose again and try to get these pipes fitted together and then bolt it all back up.

So we're nearing the Uh, the phase of final mock-up see how this works out. That's a tight squeeze right there. Look at that. I wonder if I have to pull this off entirely I think I do rear Bolt and the other I'm out again.

Okay, bolts are out. Let's slide this guy into our Muffler here. I have to rotate it down. You need to figure out how to make that pipe lined up or lined up the way I Think it's supposed to go.

It's got to be straight as possible right here. and I think I think that's the best position for it? Nope, because the muffler is not in place anymore. Uh, how about down this way now? All right All right guys. After a ridiculous amount of wiggling around I Got this is straight and it's tucked in as possible.

so the muffler is up. It's not hanging low. This pipe is running straight. It's running straight.

at this connection and it looks like it comes up and hooks up right here. I Had thought it was going to connect over here so I had this thing Twisted a little bit but it appears that it's got to go over here. so as it connects to our Muffler we come over, we connect to our over axle pipe. The Hanger is in a good position.

Yeah right there. and then we come back and we're on our Hangar back here and again we're gonna have to do like a cut out or something around those exhaust tips to fit. You can see this muffler has no cutouts, but if we take a gander over here at our neighbor Mustang it does have cut outs so I'm gonna have to probably just Sawzall or you know, just get in there with like a trim tool and cut that away. It is what it is.

So let's go ahead and throw these other two bolts back in this front flange and then we'll make sure everything seats well and we'll start to tighten down some plants. So again, we got our two uh, two bolts here. the long ones. Two Nuts there's our washer by the way.

no re about the torn glove I've already changed it like three or four times. These gloves like to tear and I don't wanna I'm not gonna do it again. Let's get this thing tightish. Yeah, not all the way.

just enough to draw everything in and kind of lock it into place there. All right, backing her up. let's throw one of the clamps on the Mufflers right here and uh so I'm surveying my components and I actually think I'm short a clamp to that or I lost it already I thought I had four but I seem to have only located three and I had them all on my bench too. I don't know what I've done.

Someone's playing a trick on me. Get on there nut. now. we can see this thing still has some motion in it that has Motion in it still and so the rest of these pipes can be adjusted as we see fit.

I found the clamp. it was on the bench but the fan blew the uh, the little cloth thing over top of it and it was hiding so I didn't really lose it, just didn't know where I left it. That's our rear clamp on the muffler, so bear with me just for a second. Let's get through this last little bit and then we'll get to the part that everyone's waiting on, including me.

What does it sound like? Let me know what it sounds like. In fact, we're gonna do that right now. that looks good. Okay, let's go ahead and let it down, see what this thing sounds like and we'll go from there.

Mustang Coming down, beginning first ignition starting sequence. Now that sounds pretty good. let's put some throttle, see what it sounds like that. Are you ready? Um, oh, that's nice I Like it Superior Performances: Alrighty Phil is the exhaust is on I Just need to, uh, eventually get the wheels on this and have it all the way on the ground.

Once it's on the ground, we can kind of eyeball and measure out where we want to put these tips. and once we figure out where we want to put the tips, I'll go ahead and do the little cutouts in there just to make it fit a little better and then we'll finalize that operation with the clamps. However, it's not going on the ground until I Get a banjo bolt for this brake caliper. The ones that were on here were rusted off and I could not get the banjos out so I had the special order those.

uh, one of those is on the way I have one for the other side, but not on this side and we're also still waiting on a set of nice shiny red front calipers for this too. But I think they're on back order so that also might have to wait till later. Anyway, all that being said: I have nothing more to do in this particular red bird. Mustang So I'm going to go ahead and shut her down and power all this stuff off.

We're gonna go ahead and close this video out right now. and I will close this video on this 47 358 Mile 4 Mustang by thanking it each and every one of you guys to watch this video. As always, hope you enjoyed this video. If you did enjoy this high performance muscle car video, please feel free to let me know about that in the comments section down below.

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