My Cuda Project Part II...now at Bruning Auto Design

[DRJDVM's '69]

At first I was really trying not to notch the frame but the car is so low and the motor is raised, it looked terrible to have the exhasut go under the trans crossmember....so out came the cut off wheel .... I rough cut everything and we tucked it up nice and tight. I'm making a new trans crossmember and dialing in some more clearence this weekend. The stuff in the pix looks terrible right now, but I'll get it all even and dialed in.The entire exhaust is above the frame and SFC's so you cant see it at all from the side....

[DRJDVM's '69]

Then back to the mufflers.... The Spintechs are 3 inches deep, so I can tuck them up nice and high and still have clearence to the floor.



Rob and I then made some hangers using the isolaters that The Roadster Shop sells...

[DRJDVM's '69]

Not too shabby...



I left the tailpipes alittle long so I can dial in the exhaust tips later


I went 3 inch from header to muffler and then 2.5 inch over the rear and out the back. With the Air Ride, it gets pretty tight back there when I drop the car...plus it will tone down the Spintechs alittle too....

[DRJDVM's '69]

Jeff Davis at Precision Metalcraft got the intake all made for me a couple of months ago, but havent had the time to post pix up. He let me borrow the original prototype as a test fit and then modified the original design to be alittle shorter and more compact so it all fits under my hood. He also machined my front timing chain cover to remove some un-necessary "bulges" and add some AN fittings. The he had a mounting plate so I can run my coils under the intake and really clean up the valve cover area.

The intake is gorgeous....its really going to make the car stand out from all the other Cuda's with a 6.1 HEMi transplant

[DRJDVM's '69]

Got all my AC unit, PS pump, ALT and other front drive accesorries all mounted up......

And thats where we stand right now. Now that I finally got the front frame swapped out on the Camaro and got that back on the road, I can get back to working on the Cuda....plus the kids are back in school!!!! So that opens some time too.....

This weekend I hope to get the new trans crossmember done and get the rough cut frame notch all dialed in so it looks nice and is more structurally sound.

I was hoping to get the car back to Tim at Bruning Auto Design to have him do some more stuff....but its looking like that might not happen. Tim is working full time a SAR and has lots of other side projects in his "spare" time...just doesnt look like he will have time..... I understand..... I'd love to have him do more work on it, but I have no choice but to look at some other shops to keep the progress moving

[wellis77]

Great work Ned!

[torino420]

The exhaust turned out great, nice work!

Good luck toning down that hemi, it will sound good you can count on that!

[Richio1]

Great work Ned. I love seeing the updates. Keep em coming. Sure is great having friends with lifts isn't it. Make things a little easier. Exhaust turned out nice. Did you get the reducers from Columbia too?

[GregWeld]

There ya go Ned! Looking good. Kudos to Rob and you for tackling that job 'cause it's a big one.

[DRJDVM's '69]

Yeah the exhaust was a challenge....especially since neither one of us had built a custom one before....lots of angles to visualize and fine tune the cuts just right to get the angle right and the joint tight. Rob knows a local guy that is awesome at TIG, so now that its all tacked together, I'm gonna pay him to weld the joints all purdy

I bought the mufflers straight from Spintech, so I just had them do the muffler exit at 2.5 inches...so the reducer is built in already.