Quick Question,
Anyone running a MM Panhard Bar setup with a 3" single Exhaust? Worried I am going to have fitment issues but hoping someone has already addressed this.
Ryan
1969 Mach I Mustang
1985 GT T-Top:
LA3, T3, Walbro 255, Stinger FMIC, RR Cam w/Esslinger adj. sproket
I have the MM pan hard bar in my SVO with 2.5" exhaust. It is a tight fit with the 2.5" tail pipes, so I think the 3" would be problematic. Give the guys at MM a call. I'm sure they have run into this before. As I recall, you have to use the Dynomax 2.5 or the flowmaster 2.5 tail pipes to clear the bar.
05-19-2020, 09:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-20-2020, 08:13 PM by
TurboRay.)
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While the 2-ish+ square-inch difference in crossectional area between 2.5 & 3-in pipe is significant (7.07 vs 4.91 ~ rounded), the exhaust-gas stream cools significantly from the turbo exit to the differential......causing a corresponding reduction in volume and tube-size requirement. Soooooo..........reducing pipe diameter to 2.5-inch just ahead of the diff (after the muffler) might not have any negative power impact. BUT.......I wuz wrong once before!
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As an example of the incremental heat reduction through the exh system, John Sheffler (
svojohn) made a 40lb-reduction in his car's weight by replacing all the exhaust tubing behind his stainless downpipe with (gasp)
aluminum tubing! (
LINK)
..IIRC, that weight reduction also included omitting the muffler.
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Placerville, California
(former) '78 2.3T Courier w/blow-thru Autolite 2bbl carb ~ (current) '87 2.3T Ranger w/PiMP’d EFI
You'll just have to get creative.
I just installed a old, modded Steeda 5-Link set-up on my Tbird. I made new upper links, new RUCA chassis mounts, modded the panhard chassis bracket, etc.
I was going to keep the single 3", no matter what. I cut my old Stinger tailpipe into about 5-6 pieces to get it all to fit.
I have as little as 3/8" of clearance as that pipe snakes it's way through all of that.
I locked it down tight with none of those stupid swinging hangers.
I have yet to have any exhaust rattles or contact with any of the other components.
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
1983 TBird TC Clone - 1985 Mercury Marquis LTS - 1986 LTD Wagon