Custom Built Exhaust Tips (because you cant buy them)
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- When you can't buy it - you build it. Here is a custom set of stainless exhaust tips built for a Ford GT
↓ Swager/Expander Kit ↓
First is the Lisle 17350 expander set. You can use it manually as is, or add hydraulics. amzn.to/3HocdaL
A cheap knockout set has the hydraulic cylinder attachment you’ll need. You can also use the hand pump if you’re on a budget, but its insanely slow. amzn.to/3EGsciI
You’ll want a high quality 10,000 PSI rated jack hose long enough to reach whatever you’re working on. DO NOT buy a cheap under rated hose as it may burst on you! amzn.to/3FIugYW
An air over hydraulic foot pump powers the unit quickly amzn.to/3qzg5iE
If you use the foot pump listed above, you’ll need this hydraulic bushing to adapt to the hose also listed above. DO NOT use brass - use ONLY stainless, otherwise it may explode. amzn.to/3FJJmNI
The foot pump above takes 1.6 quarts of oil, so buy 2 quarts amzn.to/3JFQ3D4
Happy swaging!
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↓ Swager/Expander Kit ↓
First is the Lisle 17350 expander set. You can use it manually as is, or add hydraulics. amzn.to/3HocdaL
A cheap knockout set has the hydraulic cylinder attachment you’ll need. You can also use the hand pump if you’re on a budget, but its insanely slow. amzn.to/3EGsciI
You’ll want a high quality 10,000 PSI rated jack hose long enough to reach whatever you’re working on. DO NOT buy a cheap under rated hose as it may burst on you! amzn.to/3FIugYW
An air over hydraulic foot pump powers the unit quickly amzn.to/3qzg5iE
If you use the foot pump listed above, you’ll need this hydraulic bushing to adapt to the hose also listed above. DO NOT use brass - use ONLY stainless, otherwise it may explode. amzn.to/3FJJmNI
The foot pump above takes 1.6 quarts of oil, so buy 2 quarts amzn.to/3JFQ3D4
Happy swaging!
I was just going to ask which kit you use for pipe expander thank you for including a link for it.
I’ve been wanting to add this kit to my cabinet and I have the hydraulic knock out kit already so this will be a good addition
@Rusted Bolts & Buckets 21 years
I tried to put together a hydraulic swaging kit in the UK recently .. my top tip would be: remember that the (imported) Lisle set will be imperial and the (imported but from China) hydraulic knock out set will be metric.. I didn't think about that and ended up with a set of pieces that don't fit together ;) (I ended up just using the Lisle set with the impact gun .. not easy on 1.5mm wall 304 tube)
While I was working on a jobsite I took a bubbled air hose off of our compressor and warned everyone not to use it. One of the guys I warned with it had it burst while he was using it shortly after. Thankfully he was fine but he easily could have hurt an eye or something. When someone gives a warning about cheap air hoses it's not because they want to take fun away from anyone. It's spreading a bit of common sense for those that have none.
@@krakenthrottle2199 and common sense is so rare these days it may as well be a super power
I like that you didn't try to reinvent the wheel. Finding off-the-shelf stuff sure saves fab time. These exhaust tip videos are really interesting to me - I work in product development for Ford at the Arizona Proving Ground and was just doing some work on the new GT. To be honest though, the original and the 03-06s are my favorites!
Trying to get a trip together to take some welding classes in Vegas with my daughter. I'm self taught so I'm sure I do everything wrong :) but, as I like to say, "I welded, it helded..." 🤣
worth the trip, man. those guys are cool.
You are so right. I'm the guy that's like "Yeah, I can just make X, Y, and Z" however if I take my time and source already manufactured parts and modify them like TFS did it saves so much TIME!!
Your ethics in business are pretty incredible. Your effort in organizing your procedures in fabrication is a gift to the customer in the way of quality and affordability. Great skill, great business model
I second larryegilman1's comment. I find you transfer of job efficiency to the customer refreshing. You are a real inspiration to us entrepreneurs. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, and your ethics, with all of us.
mann!!!!!!!!! I use to watch this channel when it was filmed in a garage!!! years ago!! i was always jealous and admired all the tools this guy had! now things are different and have myself a woodward bender, enco lathe and a bunch of other tools. but man!!! if it wasnt for this channel i wouldnt have learned as much as i did!!!!
I love these step by step projects. Especially when you break down the how's and why's plus your pricing. Makes it easier on those trying to establish themselves in business as well as the hobbyist who can calculate how much they are saving by doing it themselves.👍💪
And still probably cheaper than any off the shelf aftermarket parts, simply because theyre for an "exotic". Great work again 🤘🤘
Bro a 90° exhaust tip of any diameter is no more than $80 on eBay. His client is just very wealthy and doesn't mind paying out the ass for fit and finish.
Don't speak like that unless you suspect you're at least in the ball park. This isn't a component anyone should have a welder create. Factories don't charge $100 an hour for labor and a $50 drafting fee.
@@MatMabee not talkin about generic Autozone specials, but performance shops who "mass produce" parts for cars like this. Thanks for showin up though. Have a good day 🤙🤙
@@MatMabee you sound like a kid
@@atozbikes you sound like you're terrible with assumptions
You make it look so easy and everything you build looks so clean. I envy you.
@@ButBigger42 indeed, i'm having my 6G TIG test in 2 weeks, wish me luck XD
@@RDxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Luck
@@RDxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx good luck RD, lul
One of the best looking cars of all time. Masterpiece of car design... BUT these fabrication is on another level. I love watching how you handle every build, every modd. Perfect, everytime perfect! Every video is new learning material, tnx!
That price actually makes me feel better about what I've been charging. Thanks for another good one 👌
Yes, I was thinking the same! 😊
@@philtucker1224 I think he undercharged. i would have charged closer to 500 factoring all the things he did. easy 2 hours of time invested in this
I love the tips you give for guys such as myself that don't have all the higher end equipment. Come in really handy thanks for the awesome content
Another great video. If you ever decide to close the shop, you should consider teaching. You explain processes simply and straightforward. Nicely done!
He does teach
@@chriso1373 good to know. The guy is a true craftsman
Should start a youtube channel also
Man I have to tell you, you do some damn good work, it’s really nice to see someone take pride in their work and your videos are awesome too
I think your tips look way better that the original. 👍👍
Theres only one part about the original i like better. Where the tip meets the tubing. The factory one has a smooth/solid taper. The ones he made have a big gap between the outer layer of the tip, the inneer layer, and the pipe. Just creates a spot for debris to collect, and doesnt look as clean
I noticed you have the guard on the grinder. I worked at a metal shop for 20 years; I never took the guard off because i never needed to, and i don't like hot metal sparks hitting me in the face. That being said, every grinder, welder, and family member took the guards immediately. What pissed me off more was when people would use my grinder and take off the guard and lose it. Good Job.
I’ve worked on a couple of Ford GT’s when at the dealership and they are one great piece of Americana, engineering. Great video!
I love that you’re rocking the Jimbo’s Garage holder. I have one for my MIG gun and it’s perfect.
@@ButBigger42 or as Jimbo would say "Pretty good." haha
No prints just looking at it and figuring it out.
I need to figure out how to develop this skill to this level or above.
That might involve a actually doing it A LOT. Just do it, learn from your mistakes (you usually do most of em just once anyways, especially when u can throw out 100 bucks in the process lol) Tho taking a look at something and think about what and how you are going to do it is also key. Good luck on your journey :D
I used to make custom exhaust tips and even those Just bought from exhaust shop can be relatively easily made with hydraulic press. If you foresee yourself making more exhaust tips in the future it pays of extremely quickly to get a few scrap pieces of carbon steel solid rods and lathe down cone shaped dies, harden them and then you have cheap tool to make literally hundreds of tips per week.
Thank you for sharing. The brace or jig was worth the entire time, so the rest was gravy! Stay safe.
These vid's of yours are always great! I really appreciate the realism of your work ethic and always being able to see the point at which you have to "ship it" and get on with your life.
Well done man, well done.
I liked that cut off wheel trick.
Yours looks better than stock by far. Nice work.
I love your grinder disc centering tool.
The level of prep and craftsmanship on these parts is really on another level I think a lot of people miss the mark and just rush into getting something done while others like you are very thorough and it pays to be this way!! Love the videos I’m sure they will be a return customer for sure!!
I didn't hear how much the part would have been oem if it had been available... a lot more than $350 I'd bet
Really good point, Just checked dealer part site, the exhaust tips aren't sold separately and come with the whole Muffler which is $2,234.80+tax here is SoCal.
@@CP110 ouch!!!
Man needs to charge like at least 150 bucks more!
@@CP110 my wallet is crying in agony in the corner just because i told it the price now ...
I paid about $400 for my Ford GT exhaust tips at a local welder. They gonna look so sick on my Kia Sorento.
OMG that label on your shirt makes this the winner!!!!
Wish I found this channel years ago. Just so interesting to see.
Workflow is everything - some workers spend all their time spinning their wheels and getting nothing done
I wish you would upload more often bc your videos are very interesting as well informational.
So you built a street 90 out of metal pipe nice job. That flare tool is nice they come in handy.
I cant believe you arent charging AT LEAST what the factory part costs assuming you could get one. I know youre being fair to the customer, but there is a point where you are being TOO fair. Not lying, I wouldve charged a grand for that and the customer wouldve paid it happily. This is coming from someone that does motorsport electrical harness fabrication (the concentric twisting fab) and the amount of times I heard the customer say, "thats it? I thought itd cost 3x that" made me reconsider what my skill is worth versus what I think is fair. I changed my rate when I found out that I could diagnose issues in less than 1/3 the time that other shops were and was only charging for 1/3 the time. Why should I short change myself because I can do the job right and ahead of schedule?
Thanks brother for taking the time to show us these things very informative and we appreciate it just want to let you know your hard work and time and effort put in this is not going without appreciation I'm learning a ton and I appreciate it a lot God bless
Man you do awesome videos. Highly professional and high quality videos all around! You deserve so much more subscribers and followers, more people should GET to watch your videos!
Get you some hole saws, 2", 2.5"...al the way to 6". Use them on some 2x4 studs and then use the wood as inserts in the vise to keep the tubing from collapsing. Thank me later.
Look into a TIG Brush for cleaning and passivating the HAZ discoloration. I have had one for a number of years and love it.
Nice work, they turned out great!👍
Speaking of swaging, I had to make a tool to swage 1/2" copper pipe in a house that was unoccupied and subsequently froze and swelled the pipes. It was made from a piece of scrap steel that was from a car strut. It was already about the right size, and saved me a bucket load of time and money.
They make slip coupler's, just a heads up on that. Not to mention pex is way cheaper than copper also.
It's funny, you say "be efficient" "don't walk across the shop" "grinding next to cutting" followed up by: "yeah, way too lazy to oil the swaging tool so it took me more time to deal with it."
LOL. cracked me up. Same shit I do in my shop. 😂
I can’t believe people argued with you on efficiency.
Efficiency wins hands down every time in my book.
A guy that is worried about wasting time walking back and forth between measuring and cutting is a guy I want doing my work. Not only will I get a fair deal, he’ll get someone else in the door and they’ll get a fair deal, then he’ll get another’ and another... so on and so forth.
wow 90 degree mandral bends are sooo hard to get ! lucky you have a supplier...so rare!
Loved the video, direct and efficient. Thank you.
Now you can sell stock later on for more FORD owners. NOS version. New Old Stock. Now you have a template, this service can be sold. Awesome.
Very nice. Clean work. And absolutely awesome work on the video with all the detail you included.
Parking a Ford gt, next to a dodge viper is one of the biggest flexes
I did not know about back purging until today- thanks for that👍
Stainless steel needs a back purge because it crystallizes and turns brittle on the back side and can cause cracking later down the road.
@@SlapHappy I googled but didn’t read about the cracking down the road- thanks
@@SlapHappy I remember seeing a channel, maybe this one? use a dry powder or something you mix with water and it turns into a paste and you can put it on the backside of the weld and it will act as shielding. I forgot what the stuff was called
@@Ckcdillpickle solar flux. It is a dirty alternative to back purging but does work
Your work is awesome man. You explain everything perfectly. Love the content keep up the good work.
Nice video mate 💪
We were hired years ago (like 04 or 05?) To travel down to Cincinnati to gut and cage then modify/reinforce the aluminum hydroformed upper frame...
I had done some pretty high end work by that point but I was super nervous welding on the upper frames for some reason..but was a very cool week down there
Outstanding Justin.....
Subbed as soon as I saw the hammer head fly off in the other video..!!
Hey dude this is sick, want to fabricate one day except I have no f*cking clue how to make things out of thin air!!!! Thanks for sharing
as someone who has literally never welded a day in his life (unless you count using a clamp style spot welder once in 8th grade) this is super useful when i eventually never use it. But great content nonetheless.
I have no idea how I ended up on this channel, 5 seconds ago I was watching some cerakoting techniques, and an episode of American Dad, next I'm watching this guy fix a motorcycle muffle a Casting, and debunk fake welding... its interesting though
I love the videos man. I wish you had more time to do more of them but I understand
Looks cooler than the OEM
Awesome work, thank you, Jim.
Another banger 👍😎 thanks for the great content
Amazing fabricator, keep up the great videos
Impressive and beautiful work.
Mad respect. Thank you.
Awesome work. Idk if they still do, but Magnaflow use to make a tip that looked very similar if not almost identical. I had one on a previous build.
Totally awesome 👌 good work
Great work ! 👍
aww, i wanted to see 'em installed
I just wondering what has become of your chassis project or your modified pickup project? Those both looked like pretty promising builds. I’m sure we’d all like to see what’s happening.
I tried to make that bend: same material, same diameter, same radius, and same wall thickness...and failed. Every piece tore in half. I was using a Pines #2 bender, lube and quite a bit of axial compression pressure. After scrapping $300 dollars of material, I gave up. The outside radius is where the failure was located. It stretched out, became paper thin and tore. Maybe polishing the tubing and preheating the inside diameter (to shift the bend tangent line "closer" to the I.D.) would have worked? But then, you run the risk of buckling the inside radius. That's a tight bend and I don't know what kind of voodoo it takes to make it.
I think its more material than anything. Cheap stuff gets ripped and torn just from expanding it. I can only imagine how tricky it is on a bender. Whatever the do at JMD to get it right, they're probably not telling haha.
Try packing it tight with sand it well help keep the shape of it and not let it buckle learned that trick from a old guy building yachts lol
@@jaxkel3589 The Pines #2 bender is a commercial bender, 15 feet long, flexible internal mandrels, etc. Possibly a custom designed tool would make it work. Preheating one side, polishing the tooling, multiple stage bends .... it's VOODOO! YOUR IDEA 💡 MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE ANSWER. But, I had already scrapped 10 pieces of stainless and 20 mild steel ones. It still gives me a headache thinking about it. It beat my skills/experience.
I've run into a couple cases lately where tubing I was buying wasn't the actual wall thickness it was marketed as.. was making unexpected issues until I figured out the materials were 15-20% thinner than I thought.
@@GrindhousePerformance I get that with sheetmetal all the time. There is a tolerance with the standards so to squeeze out every single penny the manufacturers always go to the low side
Attention to detail
Very nice work.👍
I was fully expecting $1000+ the exhaust shops in my area are a complete rip off! (London, uk btw)
This is really insightful and informative.
Super clean fab work
They look awesome!!
You are a beast. Love the videos! Thank you!
Amazing video bro
Much mahalo for the advice you share
Very informative, great example build and video, thank you for sharing. 👍👍👍👍👍
Nice work!!
Well done, weld one, weld on.
Im kinda surprised you didnt get it closer to the factory look. The factory one had a solid taper so the re was no gaps between the inner and outer layers of the tip to the pipe/bend. Thats kind of makes the look, and blocks anything from getting in between the outside layer of the tips and the pipe/bend. Looks much cleaner and more unifom too. Still a nice tip though
Also i wonder if those tips are going to change the exhaust note not having the inner support that coukd kinda act as a baffle
I'd like to see a video on how that actual tip you're using is made. And oval tips also, is it a form and just pressed in?
where i live places wont just do stuff for you even if you pay, its stupid, getting custom anything around here is a pain in the ass
Excellent work!
Excellent work. Guy needs to charge a lot more.
Was that a crease in the part at 9:19?
GREAT work!
WOW--super impressed with your fab & welding skills, something I'd like to try and emulate.
i know he knows what hes doing, i dont normally ever see stick out as far as his though on alot of channels, is he maybe running more gas for some of these harder to reach places? also some of the coolest tig i saw dude litterly used an old intercooler as a heatsink it was sic, i think some type of heatsink should be used for more projects
He has a video going through stickout and it’s effects
I love your jobs youre the man 🤟
Don't forget to add the cost of a new bandsaw blade to the price of the tips because if the teeth weren't dull before you cut the stainless tip they sure were afterward.
Nice work!!
brother you definitely make it look too easy. 😁👍
Would you do a video series explaining basic welding from beginner to intermediate level for mig and Tig
*chefs kiss*
Pretty Sweet.
I thought my self how to weld a little bit. Now my question is. How to get better? I know its practice. But what do I practice on? Do I get some jobs for free to gain expierence? Do i buy material and just start making something?
awesome craftsmanaship
My god I love that colour. Is it a wrap?
Great content
Do you think you could do a video on Designing a fabrication job; what software/program you find to work best.
Thought that Ford would have pulled in more view's!
Can you do a video on how to make that style of beveled tip? Is it like flared inward or a double layer flared outward and blended? I have an idea but no idea how to achieve it (or at least where to start)