Need Pics of Stacks

[RSchwarzli]

I am trying to decide on style and height for the crew cabs stacks but am having a hard time picturing it.



I think I am going to go with 5" turnouts, but height I am still iffy on. I am picturing about 1. 5 feet over the roof height. Hence the reason I am looking for pics.



Although roof height normally looks decent, I am thinking for a truck the size of the crew, they may look funny. They may also leave some good soot marks on the front of the trailer if I am too low!



Feel free to post as many as you would like. I need all the help I can get!:-laf



Thanks!



Robert

 

[rumblefish]

don't ruin a gorgeous truck like that with stacks. just say no!

 

[Oasis-3]

Stacks

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Hope this helps all are 5"



Cliff

 

[JGrefenstette]

what kinda pictues you lookin for here boss, i got bout 60 some. let me know what shots you want. i got em from start to finish. from the down pipe to the stacks.

 

[RSchwarzli]

Oasis - Thanks! LOVE the fact you use a bedcover too. How do you prevent the bedcover from flaming from the hot stacks??



Jimmy - OO! I have choices! Oo.



If you have some of it finished, looking from the front back and seides that would be good. Also how you mounted them to the box might be good too.



Thanks!



Robert

 

[LBARTLETT]

I pull horses and hay so I would need tall stacks but I fly alot and then couldn't get into the airport parking garages or I'd have stacks, good luck with your project and pictures please when you're done

 

[SierraRam]

If I were going to do stacks I would go mitre cut annd keep the hight at cab level. Just my opinion.

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

I dont have any pictures on this computer, but I posted these a while ago and I'm not sure how else to get them in here.





I've noticed its more common with the 2nd and 3rd gen trucks to cut them off at the cab line, but a lot of first gen guys (myself included) put them way up there above the cab. My only thought is for a lot of us first genners, the stacks are the only shiny thing on the truck... so why not put 'em high and show 'em off? Right? Eh..... I tried.



https://www.turbodieselregister.com...-1989-1993/196357-beast-lives-pictures-2.html

 

[JGrefenstette]

https://www.turbodieselregister.com...93/198063-4inch-downpipe-stacks-progress.html



alright, well apparently the site wont let you post pictures that have already been posted in the past. so here is the link the the thread i made while i was doing it. there are an unholy amount of pictures in this thread, start to finish. so i hope this helps ya out.

 

[JGrefenstette]

ok, here are a few from just a couple weeks back. since i moved to NC i bought a camera and took some pictures that i havnt put on here yet. These are just from a distance, but if you do look in that thread, youll get some REALLY indepth shots or the exhaust sergery :-laf hope this gives you some somthin to work with.

 

[RSchwarzli]

Tippin. I think you hit the nail on the head. 1st gens do look better with a slightly taller stack. I have noticed that too.



Jimmy - I will check out the other thread link. Nice lookin truck dude!



If anyone else has pics, the more the merrier!!



Thanks!



Robert

 

[RSchwarzli]

Tippin - Are those 4" or 5" stacks on your truck in the link??



Thanks!



Robert

 

[PToombs]

Jimmy, still didn't get that damn box painted? :-laf



Robert, the closer to the cab, the louder it will be. Mine aren't too bad. The height of stacks has a lot to do with what else is on there. Here's some of mine. 5" miter.

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Don't mind the coffee cans!

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Before the bed was on.

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[RSchwarzli]

Thanks Pete! That first pic has got to be one of my all time favorite pics!!



As for noise, I am not too concerned as the 90 has the set high behind my head and it is not too bad. So on the crew, I should have no issues.



The buckets remind me. Do you have allot of issues with water in your stacks?? I imagine more water goes in miters than turnouts.



Robert

 

[PToombs]

Robert, not really. I cheated kinda sorta. If you look at the last pic, you can see the mounting tube is wider than the cross box. What I did was weld a piece of 4" about 6" long directly to the box, which is 4", then welded the 5" mounting tube on outside of that. I sleeved it. If it rains, most of the water hits the inside of the stack, and runs down out of the stack thru the space on the front and rear. Very little water actually goes into the crossbox. It does blow a little soot when I first start it, but not as bad as if the water was laying in the bottom to blast out.

 

[RSchwarzli]

Hehehe. Pretty slick!



Robert

 

[JGrefenstette]

water... ... :-laf hahah

i cant let you think you wont get water in them if you do it like most are and like mine are. if you drive the truck everyday you shouldnt have much problem but if its parked over the weekend during a 2day downpour... . use your imagination. i was gone for a week once and got back to the house, it had rained all week. No lie, that pour thing was so far under water, that when i started it up it gargled like id put the tailpipe in a lake. it took probly 2-3 days driving to work to finally steam it all out. it will role some thick white clouds till its all out. like a kettle of water on the stove. haha you will get some strange looks let me tell ya. just be cruzin down the road 65mph, and pourin white steam. hey, it cleans the stacks out pretty good. all i really need to do is drill a 1/8" hole in the bottom of the 90* elbow. i have had em fill up in one day durring hurrican type rains. and think, i got 4 inch from the turbo back to the TC, then 5inch from there up to the 6inch stacks, so the smaller your pipes below the stacks the quicker their gonna fill. it dosent really hurt anything, but i have sometimes felt leery about breaking real hard on a down hill grade when that waters in there, fearing it may get sloshed a little too close to the tubro hot wheel.



ah peter, hhahhaha you just aint gonna give that up are you? some day in the future ill paint that box, just for you too. after i graduate (August 2010) im going to rebuild the getrag and the rear end. and maybe lift it more. then i will start the body/frame work. front right quarter pannel, wheel well, both rocker pannels, etc. and coat frame. then i will paint it. im hoping to do it army olive green. and then ill probly paint the wheels black to match the bumpers. but dont worry the precious box will still be allis chalmers orange for you and freshly coated

 

[PToombs]

:-laf :-laf :-laf

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

I have 4' tall stacks, but they're sitting on top of the elbows in the bed, which add probably about 10-12 inches. They're 4" diameter, but I regret not getting 5". I've got all the pieces to build up the whole system to 5" from the transfer case back... . it's on my list.



As far as water goes... I guess it never really bothered me. Add to that, I clamped my system instead of welding, so it doesn't hold water as well as Jimmy's or Pete's probably does. Either way, I can bury the needle on my 0-1500 degree EGT gauge, so basically anything thats not metal in the system gets vaporized pretty quick the first time I need to get on the freeway in a hurry.



Snow is worse for me, when I first start it up after a big snow, all sorts of black slush fire upward and onto any unsuspecting victims... including myself if I'm outside of the truck when I start it.



Keep in mind the turbo is almost at the top of the engine bay, it's not like a gasser where water will flow into the exhaust manifolds if it gets too high in the exhaust system. It's got a lot to fill up to make it up to the turbo, and when you start it, a diesels got enough pressure in the exhaust system to keep anything away from the turbo and push it out the pipes.

 

[RSchwarzli]

Yeah, I did the 4" stacks on the 90 and regret it every time I look at it... ... One day I will 5" it as well!



Robert