Million Dollar Skunksworks Kirkham

[David Kirkham]

This is how you make the snakes. We take the bends and cut them on a band saw. The critical thing to remember is to ALWAYS cut your bends toward the MIDDLE of the radius. That way you end up with a round hole and not an oval on one end and another oval (that doesn't match) on the other end.

[David Kirkham]

What good is stainless if you don't polish it!

Here we are using our standard muffler that is ALL stainless. The outer shell is stainless; the inner tube is stainless; the packing is stainless. No rust or packing blow out here!

Above the mufflers, you can see various bends and cuts. It is one big jig saw puzzle.

[David Kirkham]

Here is a pic of the muffler snaking out the back. Notice how we ran the exhaust OVER the rear lower control arm. The suspension is right now at full droop so we ran the exhaust within 1/4 inch of the 1/2 shaft axle for maximum clearance.

[David Kirkham]

Here is another picture of the snake around. Notice all the bends to make the exhaust go where you want it to go. There are 5 different tubes all welded together in this section.