Video: Easy DIY Glass Pack mufflers and custom exhaust

[LAV25]

So I had what seems to be an original idea (sorry if it's been done before, but I think I came up with it on my own) for making glass packs for 1:24/1:25 scale models. Put together a youtube video, I know I'm not going to win any awards for cinematography but I hope someone finds it useful. 

If you have any questions, please ask. 

 

[W Humble]

I've been using aluminum tube with solder pipes for a long time, but I'm going to try this trick.  Just don't want to melt the styrene! 

I know that the chromed brass radio antenna is going the way of the dodo bird, but I use them for exhaust tips: if you make a cut with a rolling-blade tubing cutter, it chamfers the cut (good for two tips!) just like what we used to call 'pencil tip' extensions.  Or, a careful cut and some light work with #400 wetordry paper can make 'bologna tip' shaped ends.  Very good for 'Bellflower exhausts' too, though it will not bend happily.  A couple of antennae will do a lifetime of kits, even the large-scale ones and die-casts.  Carburetor velocity scoops, too. 

Plus, if I sharpen the solid top segment it will work as a plastic scriber.  Several similar tops make stanchions for a show car, or sign posts, too.  Wick

[TarheelRick]

Interesting tip.  In the mid 60's those of us who could not afford glasspack mufflers, (almost $40 per set) would use '55 GMC truck mufflers ($5 each).  They gave a nice deep rumble to even stock V-8s, but they did hang a bit lower and would often drag on speedbumps.

[W Humble]

I remember: Smittys, Pacemakers, Cherry Bombs, and finally... Corvair Turbos!  I had 'em all, and more.  The good-flowing turbo was ostensibly developed for the single exhaust on the turbocharged Corvair flat-six as it had to use a single exhaust; it flowed well, sounded all right, AND could sometimes squeak your car past the cop's listening post; since it had the oval section, rather than round like the straight-through 'can' style, they might be convinced it was still stock.  I have one now on my '62 LeMans and '71 240Z, both in-lines with single pipes.  I had a Magnaflow (also oval, but polished stainless steel) on the Z-Car, but it was too raucous  for a Grandpa driving on the street, likewise on my L-28 powered M-B 230.  Some of the local tuners thought that one was funny until I raced it...