To Stack or not to stack?

[LCAM-01XA]

Sam, you'll have to have the 1-to-2 split inside the bed, can't do it under cause your front tank will get in the way. You'll probably only need to cut only one hole in the bed, that's actually real easy if you got the proper size circular saw.

 

[LCAM-01XA]

There isnt a better looking rig on this planet, than a Pete 379 with dual 10" stacks to each is own I guess

Geez, what's up with y'all and them Pete 379s Ken W900 FTW

 

[FordGuy100]

Geez, what's up with y'all and them Pete 379s Ken W900 FTW

I used to go trucking with my uncle (who drive a green Pete 379 Long nose), and Grandfather (KW W900), I always like the Pete better, felt better ridding in it. Didnt help that the Pete was a nice Dark Green, and the KW was a baby blue.

 

[LCAM-01XA]

lol, well I just got a very nice 1978 W900 as an X-mas present from a friend's grandpa (he'd love to see us hitched, too bad she gots a hard case of relationship-phobia), thing hasn't seen a trailer in years - just sits in a barn, gets fired up daily, gets driven around the farm and some back roads weekly, and gets shined up monthly... too bad I ain't got no CDL, but that's about to change soon enough

 

[funnyman06]

Ive been looking at doing a single passenger side stack on my truck then covering the back like a military troop carrier. The truck is brown and with some brown canvise over the back i think the single stack would complement it quite well. Maybe a single 4 inch with flapper.

 

[t-roymoose]

Offtopic - how do you like the 5' fiberglass antenas? Do they have flexible mounts (I park in a carport, my stack clears by just a few inches)

I like the antanas. The 9' whips worked better but sometimes they were to high. If you park in a carport I recomend the wilson little will. It is a magnet mount and has a 3' whip. It can take a beating. With a regular antana you will end up shaving the rubber coating and damage it. Radio Shack has a 5.5' loaded wip that is good and you can mount it with a spring. I recomend that route because it sounds like you may not clear the magnetic base from your roof. I am into CBs and antanas so if you have any more questions I would be more than happy to offer advice.

 

[Agnem]

See if you can find Exiekiel's pictures. I did his stacks originally, and used 5" I believe. You'll pay over $100 alone for that pipe splitter "T". I believe we had about $600 into the system. It's a huge increase in cost from 3 or 4" to 5".

 

[t-roymoose]

I am probably gonna take 4x4TruckinGirl's advice and look into getting the exaust off of and old big rig. I haven't seen many 4" systems. If I can't get one off a big rig then I was thinking of getting the kit without the stacks and then get some stacks off an old semi. (I have a friend who wants a tow hitch reciever I have, he is willing to get some crome stacks from his work) vbmenu_register("postmenu_270865", true);

 

[LCAM-01XA]

I like the antanas. The 9' whips worked better but sometimes they were to high. If you park in a carport I recomend the wilson little will. It is a magnet mount and has a 3' whip. It can take a beating. With a regular antana you will end up shaving the rubber coating and damage it. Radio Shack has a 5.5' loaded wip that is good and you can mount it with a spring. I recomend that route because it sounds like you may not clear the magnetic base from your roof. I am into CBs and antanas so if you have any more questions I would be more than happy to offer advice.

I actually have just that now, a 3ft whip with a mag base, and it actually clears the carport beams - spring bends just enough, couldn't do it with my old jacked-up 4x4 but this truck sits lower so I'm okay in that department. The problem is the 3ft ain't really strong in signal, I get pretty crappy reception with it - those 5.5ft whips in Radioshack, are they steel? Cause two of those with spring mounts on the mirrors sound like they may work good.

 

[LCAM-01XA]

See if you can find Exiekiel's pictures. I did his stacks originally, and used 5" I believe. You'll pay over $100 alone for that pipe splitter "T". I believe we had about $600 into the system. It's a huge increase in cost from 3 or 4" to 5".

How about a 4" T-ee, then adapter pieces up to 6" for the stacks Sam gots?

 

[4x4TruckinGirl]

I priced out the "Y" pipe with 2 90* elbows and a 2 ft extension pipe for the bed... total was 240 bucks! dang! I guess it's not getting cheaper anywhere else...... I got the 3" flexpipe for my downpipe and the band clamps.... I'll let you know how this goes... with photos.... lol

 

[zigzkidz]

wow thats cheap compared to what mine what the 5 inch y was listed at 450 buck! i got it for 200(i get a discount on everything in the store) overall including the stacks the cost was over $700 but i paid not where near that

 

[zigzkidz]

wow thats cheap compared to what mine was the 5 inch y was listed at 450 buck! i got it for 200(i get a discount on everything in the store) overall including the stacks the cost was over $700 but i paid no where near that

 

[4x4TruckinGirl]

Okay so we got it sorted out.... there are elbows on the bottom of the stacks as they sit right now, which are going to get cut off so the stacks can be shortened a little, they are too long right now. I'm going to buy the "y" pipe and one piece of pipe extenstion for in the bed, and flexpipe it back from the downpipe. Sound crazy? It probably is, but dang it, it's gunna work!!!!

 

[LCAM-01XA]

Okay, so you are keeping your existing 90* elbows, just cutting them off, shortening the stacks, then rewelding them back together? Then you're running the 3" flex pipe from the turbo down behind the engine, under the cab, then back to the bed and up to that Y-pipe? Ain't that a bit too much of flex pipe?