Rapom's Rocket - just another Duster build thread

Well after admiring my work for a few minutes it became painfully aware that I had just screwed this up. The reason I decided to replace the stock gas tank was that it constricted the space I needed to get an over the axle exhaust installed. And I had just put the cell right back in almost the same spot, DOH!!! After a beer (or two) to sooth my ego I figured out that it would be a fairly easy task to do a small design change. I added stubs to the front of the cage, cut the rear cross brace out between the two floor support brackets and welded this piece into the cage itself. This moved the cage back 3” providing enough room to make the turns in the exhaust to route it over the axle and around the front of the cage. Sorry for the crappy pics, my flash made everything orange and the beer made my hand unsteady! I will probably have to skin this in sheet metal to comply with track rules but this is how it sits for now.

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