Lake Pipes

drivergo2
drivergo2 Expert Adviser
edited November -1 in HUDSON
I posted this yesterday but dont see it, so Ill ask one more time. Any problems with putting lake pipes on a stepdown. Thanks John drivergo2

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  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    Nothing to it, really. One option to think about, which I thought was pretty cool:

    Dave Sollon had lake pipes on his '51 Hornet Convertible, but they were dummy's! The chrome part that shows just underneath the rockers, had seat belt receptacles welded on (the male part) and the holder (female end) was welded onto the car, hence the lakes pipes were easily removed for cleaning, for quickly changing the look, etc. Also, no burned legs on ingress and egress!:woohoo:
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    edited September 2010
    Only drawback I can see might be ground clearance - but as long as you don't go off-roading shouldn't really be a problem.

    Here in Memphis it might be a problem, tho. There are a lot of streets where you turn into another street there's a fairly deep indentation - perhaps for drainage purposes. When I had the Caddy I scraped the hitch I had on the back more than a few times and that was pretty high up off the ground.

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
  • dave s
    dave s Senior Contributor, Moderator
    Here is picture of our 51 Hornet in Bad Lands on way from Pittsburgh to Rapid City National.

  • Lee ODell
    Lee ODell Senior Contributor
    If you hook it up to the exhaust pipe there's a chance the hot tubing giving the girl friends bare leg a nasty burn. Not good for love life.

    As mentioned ground clearance. In Burbank there are speed bumps 3 to 6 inches high on many residential steets.

    Lake pipes look good.

    Lee O'Dell
  • dave s
    dave s Senior Contributor, Moderator
    edited October 2010

    The lake pipes were under rocker panels and no danger of her hitting her leg.
  • Lee ODell
    Lee ODell Senior Contributor
    Your car looks great Dave. I'm glad your lake pipes are under the rocker panel. I have worked on alot of hot rods, roadsters, muscle cars, kit cars, 289 and 427 Cobras to name a few with lake pipes. They were not all as considerate as you. The roadsters, and Cobras were probably the hardest to exit without touching the pipes.

    There were a couple of times I got burned exiting Cobras.

    Lee
  • dave s
    dave s Senior Contributor, Moderator
    Mine were non functional, held on with GM seat belt clips, so I could remove them for cleaning.
  • Lee ODell
    Lee ODell Senior Contributor
    dave s wrote:
    Mine were non functional, held on with GM seat belt clips, so I could remove them for cleaning.

    Seat belt clips to hold it. No heat problem either. What a good idea.

    I once saw a PU using seat belt buckles instead of chains an hooks to close tail gate. Another good idea.

    Lee O'Dell
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