Side Pipes
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Joined: Jun 2000
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From: FL
The worst burn I got was during the summer when I was driving in shorts and flip-flops.
Car was fully warm and I stopped to get gas. While the gas was pumping, I went to check the oil. Popped the hood, and as I went to reach for the dipstick I also stepped forward and touched the front of my ankle area to one of the RUNNER pipes that comes right out from the engine.
That move came with a lot of hurt and I had a scar for years.
Never burned my leg after that, and every time someone gets out of the car I say "watch the pipes!"
One guy burned the palm of his HAND really badly getting out because for some reason he rolled out of the car and reached his hand down expecting to grab car body but instead grabbed hot pipe right after we were doing some spirited driving. He had a bubble on his palm. I felt bad. He forgave me.
Car was fully warm and I stopped to get gas. While the gas was pumping, I went to check the oil. Popped the hood, and as I went to reach for the dipstick I also stepped forward and touched the front of my ankle area to one of the RUNNER pipes that comes right out from the engine.
That move came with a lot of hurt and I had a scar for years.
Never burned my leg after that, and every time someone gets out of the car I say "watch the pipes!"
One guy burned the palm of his HAND really badly getting out because for some reason he rolled out of the car and reached his hand down expecting to grab car body but instead grabbed hot pipe right after we were doing some spirited driving. He had a bubble on his palm. I felt bad. He forgave me.
Racer
Joined: May 2019
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From: Brookline, NH
I put the Hooker style side pipes on my 72 back in the 90s and loved them. Never got burnt but was always cognizant of them. Always helped my girlfriend in and out of the car. The current rebuild of the 72 will also use the same type but I'll get them coated and will probably use one of the Cobra-style heat shields (coated to match/ blend) as well as I and the wife are a little less flexible now.
The cabin will have the thermal insulation under the carpet and the tunnel will have both the rigid insulation shield and the collar in it. I may also add some of the thermal insulation on the engine bay side of the floor by the metal heat shields as some here have done successfully.
The cabin will have the thermal insulation under the carpet and the tunnel will have both the rigid insulation shield and the collar in it. I may also add some of the thermal insulation on the engine bay side of the floor by the metal heat shields as some here have done successfully.
Melting Slicks
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From: MA/NH Seacoast
For the owner installing mods and getting injured, I'm fine with that and will only offer a "tsk, tsk". When it comes to exposing others to injury I'm much less fine. Call me a Nervous Nelly. I'd be very concerned for children who don't have that awareness or the leg length to step out far enough from the sill to lift themselves out.
Not mine. Same as someone burning themselves getting out of my Vette.
Is my vette stock?? HAHA
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From: Im not allowed to tell you
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In Massachusetts???? Better have a lawyer handy for those that like to sue..because thats how this state rolls!!!!
Your car, no warnings, no signs, you bringbit to a show which is common knowledge people look at cars.....i would stand there with a super soaker tellingbthem to back off until they cooled down....
Your car, no warnings, no signs, you bringbit to a show which is common knowledge people look at cars.....i would stand there with a super soaker tellingbthem to back off until they cooled down....
Is my vette stock?? HAHA
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Not defending them...theres just jerks like that everywhere
Melting Slicks
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From: Apple Valley, MN
Melting Slicks
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From: MA/NH Seacoast
In Massachusetts???? Better have a lawyer handy for those that like to sue..because thats how this state rolls!!!!
Your car, no warnings, no signs, you bringbit to a show which is common knowledge people look at cars.....i would stand there with a super soaker tellingbthem to back off until they cooled down....
Your car, no warnings, no signs, you bringbit to a show which is common knowledge people look at cars.....i would stand there with a super soaker tellingbthem to back off until they cooled down....
lol
I'll have my lawyers on standby!
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From: Redondo Beach, California
For those running side pipes, how often do your burn your ankle on the pipes? Do you get accustomed to getting out of the car without touching the pipes?
Do headers exhausted through side pipes help with the heat in the footwells? My big block car with stock manifold/exhaust gets almost unbearably hot. I am trying to figure out if the heat barrier/insulation will be enough to keep the heat out or will add side pipes be an additional big improvement.
Rick
Do headers exhausted through side pipes help with the heat in the footwells? My big block car with stock manifold/exhaust gets almost unbearably hot. I am trying to figure out if the heat barrier/insulation will be enough to keep the heat out or will add side pipes be an additional big improvement.
Rick
For the stock exhaust.....look how close the exhaust pipes run beside the transmission tunnel, along side the transmission. Specially, the exhaust driver's side exhaust pipe, stock exhaust, is actually only a few inches from your foot. I remember driving my 68 with the stock underbody exhaust, my right foot could get uncomfortably hot. There's no burn-your-leg problem with the factory side pipes. With side pipe headers....yes, but on the positive side, no one burns their leg more than once!
Sidepipes make it easy to work on the transmission, the shift levers, the differential, the rear suspension. Can be very conveniendly.
Melting Slicks
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Looks just like my leg after riding my Harley with shorts and tennis shoes, instead of jeans and boots. Good thing is you (should) only make stupid mistakes once. My factory side pipes with insulated covers will not burn anybody
Team Owner
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This burn could be very dangerous for someone with poor circulation in their legs, for instance, someone with Type 1 diabetes.
Melting Slicks
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One time I got my ******* caught in the emergency brake...it's a long story.... Had there been a label to warn me of such events it would have never happened, I should sue.
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