Whats the deal with STACK PIPES? [Archive]

briggs&strattonChev

11-27-2003, 01:05 AM

on a side note, I only know one guy with stacks on a pickup. He lives about 10 miles from me and has an 81 chev. Blue shortbox stepside. 454 and 5 inch stacks ripped off of a western star semi tractor. Loud as hell and sounds decent, and best of all he beats the SHIT outta the truck, gotta love them guys.

Greezy

11-27-2003, 01:18 AM

My daily driver has stacks...of course its a Peterbilt 379. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

BELLM

11-27-2003, 01:20 AM

Friend has late model Dodge diesel 3/4 ton PU with chrome stacks. Big stout dude, heard stories about him lifting corner of small truck while owner changed tires. He operates heavy equipment in a power plant strip mine, runs a dump truck as side job. Heard every truck he has ever owned had stacks. His truck looks cool, sounds cool. Maybe because he is such a big stout dude.

daddylama

11-27-2003, 01:23 AM

someone on the board has posted a pick of an A or Deuce shop truck with stacks... really dig it.
I like 'em, as long as they dont look like they belong on a semi...

daddylama

11-27-2003, 01:35 AM

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/image_uploads/178270-GGBubba1xs.JPG

this is the one i mentioned... love the stacks on it...

36-3window

11-27-2003, 02:33 AM

no...just plain no.....they are not for normal people

Kinky6

11-27-2003, 02:40 AM

Hell, yes - jet hot coated black, with counter-weighted tractor flaps on top!

Just about that Kinky6 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

gettingreasy

11-27-2003, 02:50 AM

I remember seeing a red oxide primer 58/9 chevy fleetside with the 2" chrome stacks at several No.Cal car shows, looked rel nice, sounded good with the 235 and fentons. The next truck I get WILL have them.
-Jesse

Elrusto

11-27-2003, 07:28 AM

It took me a little while to warm to the idea, but now I dig the shit out of them. I'll have'em on there before the LSR.

kustumizer

11-27-2003, 08:13 AM

i Think they look kool on some trucks such as my friends truck that he is building!

Rocky

11-27-2003, 08:41 AM

My 36 will have 'em. I want to hear that hemi roar right behind my head.
My dad would have had them on our family 41 chevy pickup but us kids rode in the back. Mom wouldn't put up with little blistered hands and fingers.
I'm thinkin of using a pair of Cyclone Purple Hornies, mounted verticly and painted flat black...This is just a quickue lind drarwing but I wanted to get a picture of what they'd look like....I'm planning to use them.

286merc

11-27-2003, 09:20 AM

When I was a kid every tow truck had them and then it seemed they were everywhere. When they started growing in size and looking like a Peterbuilt they looked plain stupid. Many were phonies or single exhaust. Diesel flappers were for rednecks http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Just like lake pipes, too much of a cool thing turned people off.

Today lakes are back in (maybe too much) and Ive seen (is modest the correct word?) stacks on several 50's trucks. I might even put some on the 54 F350 next year.

When the gold chainers pick up on them or it becomes a fad for ricer trucks it will be time to go back to the shorty turn downs just past the cab.

roadstar

11-27-2003, 09:41 AM

I like the one they call "Belly Burners" They come up halfway on the cab and then turn toward the rear and run along the bed rail.

Rocky the rendering looks cool. I remember Purple Hornies use to be THE mufler. I had a set on a camaro baack in '75.
Can you still buy them? They really KICKED ASS!

Lowlife

11-27-2003, 09:52 AM

Sorry for the poor pic quality,but it's a bitchin' old truck.

Fat Hack

11-27-2003, 09:54 AM

Why sheeeuuuhhtt, my lil' ol' Dodge pickem-up dun come from da deeler wit them thar pipes on it. Look jus like one a dem big rigs. Back in 1978 you wuddn't cool unless you had you wun a dem dare Dodge Lil Red Express trux and a CB radio to call yer kinfolk on!

Still got 'er tuday...been had me six wives, but only ONE truk...and it still gots da stacks!

-Skeeter McGraw

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Sam F.

11-27-2003, 10:02 AM

Friend has late model Dodge diesel 3/4 ton PU with chrome stacks.

thats all the rage around here now with the farmer set..

big dodge diesels with huge ass chrome stacks coming up through the bed...most have two stacks,but a few have only one...
...we have a joke saying " the difference between the guys with one stack and two is the number of acres he owns"

quickrod

11-27-2003, 10:25 AM

i think stacks look kool if done right.in my opinon they should have some sort of turn out at the ends,not just straight,besides, thats gotta play hell on the pipes if the truck has to sit out side.of coarse some one could get crazy and do something creative like runnen them with a turn out and maybe a 4or6" megaphone on the end,you know somethin to let em know your commin thru....hey curly,how about it?

Curly

11-27-2003, 10:36 AM

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no...just plain no.....they are not for normal people

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Well that explains why I want to run 'em on my '28 PU.

I have some true hillbilly blood runnin' through my veins and never liked stacks on anything other than a rig or a tractor...until I saw some of the pics of tastefully done stacks on some of the custom trucks on this board. I also kinda dig the ones that run along the side of the just under the top rail. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

I'm having a hard time deciding between turn outs at the top or a set of flappers http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

quickrod

11-27-2003, 10:53 AM

dude,im tellin ya,megs like you had on your sporty those were fuckin obnoxious soundin,i loved it. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Roothawg

11-27-2003, 11:08 AM

I like belly burners better.....

tommy

11-27-2003, 11:08 AM

http://fototime.com/{0A6357EC-9C7F-4D69-B1F8-599899588E8D}/picture.JPG
It wasn't just trucks. Check out the woodie.....not me though.

The Thrush side pipes stood on end with the chrome expanded metal heat shields from the 70's killed it for me. I can get into belly burners or the ones on the black 34 p/u.

Elrusto

11-27-2003, 12:01 PM

Chevette? Sounds like an East Texas thing. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Anderson

11-27-2003, 06:02 PM

If you do like em, this may be a cheap way to go (as I don't know the cost of real ones)

Get some tube bed runners for late model picups at a swap meet. Cut one end flat, and cut the mounting bracket off the other end, stick em through the running boards and weld em on.

AHotRod

11-27-2003, 11:05 PM

We had twin side-by-side stacks up the back of the cab of our old Studebaker pick-up that was powered by a Slant-6 Dodge, no mufflers....bitch Rocked to windows running down the road.......what a riot !

safariknut

11-27-2003, 11:22 PM

One of the first vehicles I ever striped was a 56 F-100 painted a nice medium metallic blue with 56 Merc wheel covers(rims edge painted red),a white bed tarp with a pleated red diamond in the middle and a GREAT set of chrome stacks that turned out at about a 45 degree angle level with the top of the cab.He bought it new in 56(his old man ran a Ford dealership)and I striped it in white with red accents in the 8th grade(1957).That truck had the sweetest sound(272 with a 3-speed) around!He's retired now and living in Florida and sent me a few pix of his latest truck;a 1950 F-1 with a 302 in it and(you guessed it)cab high chrome stacks.Bet it don't sound as good as the Y-block though.

fab32

11-28-2003, 12:25 AM

Friend of mine here built a '31 A longbed pickup in the late 50's. It had an early Cad dual quad eldorado engine. It was flat black (only because the sheet metal wasn't up to a finish gloss job. He built his own headers that came out the side of the engine compartment . He worked for the local chrome plating shop nights and had the headers chromed along with TA DA the Stacks (straight up through the splash aprons, up the back of the cab, baloney cut at cab height.
He drove the truck until the mid 60's then parked it. About 4 yrs ago he got it out of storage to put it back on the road (his wife insisted, they dated in it when he built it). He came over and borrowed one of my stock A frames for dimentions and built a new frame. Mike doesn't just build things he creats works of art. That frame shouldn't be covered up. Everyone asked if he was going to put stacks back on. The answer, YES!!! YEA!!
The story however has a tragic ending. He is not using the Cad motor, but is substituting a CHOKE, COUGH, SBC. Damn, I couldn't believe it and had to hear it for myself. To my face he confirmed the worst.
Update: I think I may have talked him into selling me the caddy engine to put with my engine display. I'm going to try and get the headers and the stick conversion so if I ever want to put it in something I'll have the parts. He takes forever to make up his mind on things so It could be awhile until the Caddy is in my shop.
I'll try to get a picture of the pickup when it was being driven and have someone post it.
Sorry for getting OT.

Frank

Tony

11-28-2003, 12:33 AM

I was gonna change the exhaust on my '33 pick up this winter. Thinking of tried and true bed rail pipe's.
i have never even thought of stacks until i saw that full fendered one today on the pick up thread by wes..

it's got me thinking..i do like the look, and it is not as common as bed pipe's..
I'll probably mock it up both way's.
we'll see.

Rat......

scarylarry

11-28-2003, 08:08 AM

Kustumizer, I think that little pick-up is badass and is what he was looking for with the post. If you look through your stack of little magazines it was real popular. It always cracks me up with the "if you dont do it this way its wrong" responses. Is he going to paint the truck?

Flat Ernie

11-28-2003, 10:11 PM

I like 'em and will probably run 'em on my truck whenever I redo the exhaust next...

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

mytlo56

11-29-2003, 03:02 PM

Mixed feelings.

They are OK on severely chopped & channeled, short ass'd trucks w/ huge engines...but only if the pipes are HUGE, like off a semi. This lends further to the whole cartoonish look.

I think they look ridiculous on mild rods. That's just my opinion though.

DrJ

11-29-2003, 04:43 PM

They look cool!
They didn't become "redneck" till they started to be put on 4x4s and mini trucks. Back in the 50's they were usually added at the time of the first oil change. Let it be said though. the "richest" guy on my block when I was a kid was the first to put them on his brand new '56 Custom Cab that he bought to tow his new Corvette powered Hallet ski boat so they might een be considered the "goldchainer" item of the day, or just universally accepted by everybody!.
Problem with them is they are just one more thing to add to the lost if an ass, er, I mean cop desides to write an equipment violation book on you, at least here in Kullyforneeya;
Vehicle Code
*
Exhaust Pipes

27152. **The exhaust gases from a motor vehicle shall not be directed to the side of the vehicle between 2 feet and 11 feet above the ground.

Yea I know it's straight up and not to the side but it can still get you a ticket because its "on the side" of the truck.
Then even if you beat it, which you probably won't it's the hassle of going to court etc.
So If you're an outlaw through and through, ignore what I just said and go for it! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

DrJ

11-29-2003, 05:05 PM

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Yeah, DRJ.
...
he heh heh.....with that code in Cali, its a wonder you all don't see 12 foot stacks on pickups.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
or would that be a Florida type thing? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

JT.

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I don't crack Florida jokes anymore, even if it's just for friendly fun. Nads is too sensitve and doesn't understand the satire of it... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Kinky6

11-29-2003, 05:37 PM

VonT, remember, those who make fun of where you live are really just jealous - Be proud of the Hillbilly label, get in touch with your inner Redneck.

If that don't help, just listen to some Jeff Foxworthy tapes!

Later, Kinky6 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

286merc

11-29-2003, 06:10 PM

The only different between you Southern rednecks & hillbillys and us Northern New England ones is that y'all talk funny.

Elrusto

07-17-2010, 06:36 PM

Yeah, I know this is an old thread but i still think they're cool !!!

94hoghead

07-17-2010, 06:48 PM

Can't stand em'! Goat ropers and rednecks run those sort of things....

eugene vik

07-17-2010, 07:11 PM

I built many of them before exhaust benders exhisted, they were easy to make and too hook up on old pickups, I did them in electrical conduit brazed with reversed 45 degree cuts and a little alum paint and they were even cool in 1968

it was hard to handmake tailpipes but stacks were very simple:cool:

mart3406

07-17-2010, 07:13 PM

Stacks on pick-ups are for "'Billy Big Rig" wannabe's. Unless
you're driving a Freightshaker or a Pete, they look stupid.

Mart3406
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cactus1

07-17-2010, 08:13 PM

I was just thinking about these last night as I was watching a bunch of early lakes footage. About half of the push trucks (in the footage I saw) had them (early '50's). I also noticed what looked to be bed mounted engine hoists which I thought was cool.

If I ever get the '56 F100 in my dreams, that Y- block will be singing through some stacks!

Malcolm

07-17-2010, 08:53 PM

Yeah, I know this is an old thread but i still think they're cool !!!

Cool old thread.... (almost 7 years old! :))

I like the bed rail (belly burner?) pipes, done right on the right old pickup...
if that makes sense at all? :)

Malcolm

bonebroke

07-17-2010, 09:15 PM

smoke stacks,gun racks, and missing teeth is what its all about round here!

bob308

07-17-2010, 09:45 PM

around here every desiel pickup has them. some are 6-8" dia.

gladeparkflyer

07-17-2010, 10:18 PM

O.K.
I'm in need of a history lesson. Or maybe just a discussion of opinions. Or, maybe lets just get down to fighting and calling each other names....???

Anyhow. Like the title says: Whats the deal with Stack Pipes? I have seen lotsa old photos of shop trucks/ push trucks / pickups with stack pipes up the back of the cab.

How come I don't see too much of that today? Seems to be "TRAD" enough. I have heard people laugh out loud at the thought of stacks....
Did those DAMN "Little red Dodge trucks" give stacks a bad name???? Or are stacks cool and I am totally in the dark...???

Who likes stack pipes? Stand up and be counted ! ! !
Who thinks they are the pinnacle of hillbillyness? Stand up and laugh real hard ! ! !

Note: this post is purely for discussion. I do not have a set of stack pipes in hand nor do I currently have a truck to put them on....... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

OPINIONS WELCOME.

JT.
those "damn dodge lilred trucks" would outrun virtually anything made the year they came out! unfortunate exhaust just the same. see lots od diesel psuedo cowboys runnin em out here. good waste of bedspace but at least they look stupid. :)

iammarvin

07-17-2010, 10:31 PM

Really???This is..was..could..NO.. Never cool, looks like SHIT .

The Brudwich

07-17-2010, 10:55 PM

Really???This is..was..could..NO.. Never cool, looks like SHIT .

You need an education son.

Stacks can look awesome on the right truck, check out 50Fraud's old truck. Stacks were in vogue at some point in the 50's. I gotta go through my old mags and scan some pics.

http://www.rexrods.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/rafront_side.jpg

cactus1

07-17-2010, 10:58 PM

Thank you! I was just scouring you tube trying to pull stills. We not talking about diesels and Lil' red express trucks people!

Sorry, I get excited.

stanlow69

07-17-2010, 11:18 PM

My 15 year old son just bought a 84 Ford 4x4 diesel pickup. Has a steal flatbed and a brushgaurd up front.He`s the happiest kid in town. YA, and a CHROME stack too. Am I happy, Yes- He can SCARE the HELL out those tunner guys- run right over those guys and not even scratch it.OH YA, Keep this quiet- my wife doesn`t know yet. Also it`s a way to piss off one of my neighbors, You know the perfect house with the perfect yard types. (they are a little noisy when started at 7:00 in the mornin). He takes his Grandma for rides(He only has a learners permit),she uses a 5-gallon bucket to get in. Imagine that--I own a ground scrapin Chevy. I`LL take stack pipes over ECHO cans any day of the week.

Retro Jim

07-17-2010, 11:22 PM

Generally I would rather have exhaust out the back but some trucks look really great with them .

Retro Jim

stanlow69

07-17-2010, 11:28 PM

You need an education son.

Stacks can look awesome on the right truck, check out 50Fraud's old truck. Stacks were in vogue at some point in the 50's. I gotta go through my old mags and scan some pics.

http://www.rexrods.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/rafront_side.jpgKeep it up, your mak`in believers out of people.

oldpaint

07-17-2010, 11:34 PM

I like them!:)

neonloverrob

07-17-2010, 11:39 PM

They used to be cool... then every dumb hick with a "yeah, it's got a hemi" sticker put them on they're pick-up. Pisses me off everytime I see that!

The Brudwich

07-17-2010, 11:40 PM

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=27106&d=1083388608

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=318886&d=1181183269

A's and 32-34 trucks can look real nice with them

artythefarty

07-17-2010, 11:53 PM

need louvers ?

07-17-2010, 11:54 PM

I think some of you guys are one tracking this thing to mean big rig looking monster sized covered chrome things. If you start looking at your old mags from the fifties, from about '54-'58 or so they were on just about every custom truck built. Usually they were made of around 2"stock and chrome plated. About 25 years ago I had a '41 ford truck with a small block ford, and I toyed with the idea of adding stacks to it. At the time I had a pair of NOS cal custom lakes pipes with about 18"of ripple section in them. The only reason I didn't do it was because the lakes were too long and I couldn't bring myself to cut and rechrome NOS pipes. But I think they would have looked great. I did much more recently make a pair of "belly burners"for my '42 Ford truck, And kept them when I sold it. They might see life yet on my '54 Chev truck..

50Fraud

07-18-2010, 12:36 AM

Stacks were moderately common in the late '40s and '50s. I saw this truck featured in HRM in the '50s and loved it:

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee306/50Fraud/BubbaNBuck/simonatti32.jpg

...so when I bought a '34 truck, it was an easy decision to me to run stacks similar to the one in the magazine. Some guys didn't like them, but I thought they made the truck.

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee306/50Fraud/BubbaNBuck/GNRS2008.jpg

Thanks, Brudwich; I appreciate the support.

Raunchy

07-18-2010, 12:41 AM

What Cactus1 and Need Louvers said. The question referred to old trucks. But where do you think the idea for them came from? The old days not something new. Lots of old timers had them when I was a kid. Told me to keep from knocking pipes and mufflers off on the high center crested dirt roads and in the oilfields. And so they could sleep in the trucks safer. Some for function and some did it for style.

jonly

07-18-2010, 12:42 AM

looks like half of a fjording kit to me, at least that's what anyone with a military hmmwv license will tell you.

Bloodandmotoroil

07-18-2010, 12:44 AM

on 18 wheelers and trucks that haul loads it keeps the exaust off the load, on 4x4s it keeps water out the exaust on rods it's the look.

sgtlethargic

07-18-2010, 01:33 AM

I saw one pickup with stacks, and I liked it. More importantly(?), WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH TINGLER?

sgtlethargic

07-18-2010, 01:34 AM

I saw one pickup with stacks, and I liked it. More importantly(?), WHERE'S TINGLER HANGING OUT NOWADAYS?

zman

07-18-2010, 05:35 AM

WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH TINGLER?

Bad ass artist. http://www.tinglerart.com/

deto

07-18-2010, 05:39 AM

lets get back to goat rapers...

Elrusto

07-18-2010, 08:44 AM

Traditional ?

whistlebritches

07-18-2010, 08:53 AM

stacks are stupid

Elrusto

07-18-2010, 09:02 AM

So are straight axles and bias-ply tires but this is still a TRADITIONAL rod and custom board.
(Note: Texas tags on truck in first pic. Regional thing?)

sgtlethargic

07-18-2010, 09:38 AM

Bad ass artist. http://www.tinglerart.com/

Yes, but it seems like he's not as active on the HAMB. In other words, is he hanging out at the Ol Skool Rodz forum again?

Kevin Lee

07-18-2010, 10:03 AM

They used to be cool... then every dumb hick with a "yeah, it's got a hemi" sticker put them on they're pick-up. Pisses me off everytime I see that!

Sorry, but that doesn't make something less cool. It just scares you away from something that you really like because you're worried about what someone else might think about you?

I dig "stacks".

BloodyKnuckles

07-18-2010, 10:15 AM

Stacks are cool.

Rednecks just over did them. They look killer on a real deal styled 50's hot rod or custom truck.

Keep the pics coming. I enjoy them.

BloodyKnuckles

Malcolm

07-18-2010, 10:25 AM

jonly

07-18-2010, 10:27 AM

^ that's a good use for them too, if they weren't stacks they'd be underground by now.

onlychevrolets

07-18-2010, 10:28 AM

I've been doing muffler work since 1977...I've turned down installing stacks on pickups over a hundred times...to me they look like shit and I don't want any one to think I did it because it looked good.

cactus1

07-18-2010, 10:35 AM

Cool Nick! Is it for sale? I think you need it!

-mikethegreek-

Mr48chev

07-18-2010, 10:55 AM

The wheat farmers around here HAD to have stacks on there trucks so they wouldn't risk catching the fields on fire with hot exhaust......so there were a lot of farm kids on the Ave saturday nights with em'.

These guys would have a fit if we showed them a photo of wheat truck with the pipes running through the grill and up Arty.

Arty is right though, the wheat farmers did and still do run stacks on their trucks as a safety factor.

There have always been a few trucks around with stacks before the diesel and wantabes you see today. Locally a few early Effies had them. Quite often though it seemed that the truck with the stacks either belonged to a truck driver or a truck mechanic back in the day for some reason.
There were also a few trucks with belly burners but those were more the custom or show trucks.

Searcher

07-18-2010, 11:41 AM

Here's a '41 Ford Pickup that I found in a farm yard.... with 'stacks'.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh98/MalcolmIsNick/HAMB%20Misc/downsized_1101091517.jpg

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh98/MalcolmIsNick/HAMB%20Misc/downsized_1101091517a.jpg

Picture those stacks coming up from between the frame rails ( between the bed and cab ) then right angle out and up to the sides of the cab... Not straight up out of the running boards.
That would look more engineered and custom.

Cool old 41, by the way.

fab32

07-18-2010, 12:20 PM

The '48 F1 WILL get stacks when it sees the road. Had them on the wrecker I drove in the 70's, straight through, no mufflers. It was the only thing that kept me awake after 12-14 hours pulling people out of ditches and hauling drunks home to keep them from going to jail.

Frank

Elrusto

07-18-2010, 10:54 PM

If mine had a stepside bed...........hmmmmmm?

bowtie40

07-19-2010, 01:04 AM

I'm goin' with the belly burners, got em' for my 56 F100 build...

Camel City Skull

07-19-2010, 03:10 AM

They are dumb. Maybe they could be defined at traditional, however there were a lot of trends of the period that were dumb and phased out for a reason.

HotRod60F100

07-19-2010, 05:33 AM

The idiots who slap a set of stacks on any diesel truck call those who put them on a gas engined truck "gassers" and give em shit. I corrected one guy and said a "Gasser" is a car class drag raced in the 50's & 60's and the Stacks were on gas pwd shit waay before you 18 wheeler wannabe fake ass dipshits were around!

Here's one cool thing that has stacks. My buddy Daves replica of what 'Lord Humungus" drove in"The Road Warrior"

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a305/GreasedGremlin360/MADMAXRelated/MADMAX2TheRoadWarrior/t3.jpg
:D

HONESTHERMAN

07-19-2010, 06:09 AM

WOW, Sure is a lot of name calling here ! This is about Stacks on trucks.
The only reason I do not have Cab high stacks on my pickup is that I use my truck as a "Truck" I haul stuff in my pickup and 99.999% of the time it is more than a beer cooler. I do not want the exhaust blowing on the blanket that is covering the piano.
I would not put those mid cab stacks on my truck because I want to hear my Rock and Roll with my windows down more than exhaust in my left ear.

mart3406

07-19-2010, 07:05 AM

"The idiots who slap a set of stacks on any diesel
truck call those who put them on a gas engined
truck "gassers" and give em shit. I corrected one
guy and said a "Gasser" is a car class drag raced
in the 50's & 60's and the Stacks were on gas pwd
shit waay before you 18 wheeler wannabe fake
ass dipshits were around!

Here's one cool thing that has stacks. My buddy
Daves replica of what 'Lord Humungus" drove in
"The Road Warrior"

'Pic - http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a305/GreasedGremlin360/MADMAXRelated/MADMAX2TheRoadWarrior/t3.jpg ]

:D
---------------------------
Jeeze.....and I thought 'rat rods' made from old cars were
bad. :eek: And that's your "buddy 'Dave's" ride??? I
think you *really* need to start hanging around with a
better class of people! But, I must admit....the stacks do
look just as much 'at home' and "right" for it, as everything
else on that 'god-awful ridiculous looking, waste of time
and material P.O S'! I'm sure the stacks - and the whole
so-called 'vehicle' in fact, really impresses the same
'no-mind, low-brows' who also think running stacks on
late model pick-ups - gas or diesel - is "cool" too.!:rolleyes::(

porknbeaner

07-19-2010, 07:31 AM

O.K.
I'm in need of a history lesson. Or maybe just a discussion of opinions. Or, maybe lets just get down to fighting and calling each other names....???

Anyhow. Like the title says: Whats the deal with Stack Pipes? I have seen lotsa old photos of shop trucks/ push trucks / pickups with stack pipes up the back of the cab.

How come I don't see too much of that today? Seems to be "TRAD" enough. I have heard people laugh out loud at the thought of stacks....
Did those DAMN "Little red Dodge trucks" give stacks a bad name???? Or are stacks cool and I am totally in the dark...???

Who likes stack pipes? Stand up and be counted ! ! !
Who thinks they are the pinnacle of hillbillyness? Stand up and laugh real hard ! ! !

Note: this post is purely for discussion. I do not have a set of stack pipes in hand nor do I currently have a truck to put them on....... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

OPINIONS WELCOME.

JT.

Well I'm down with the name calling part.

Bugger head. Nah nah.:p

I personally feel that the correct vehicle can carry a set of stacks real well. I don't see them being any worse than belly burners. I do have some 3" copper that I was thinking about building a set of stacks for my W/O Pickup.

I think the down side is if you don't have a step bed they do take away hauling room in the bed. But this a purley functional viewpoint and has nothing to do with asthectics.

need louvers ?

07-19-2010, 11:29 AM

Just thought of another one to add to this. I didn't like the look myself, but at one point Grabowski's "T" ran a small pair just before it's 77 Sunset strip days. That had to be bad deal on the ears... I just double checked, The clone features the stacks as well. The Rodders Journal article on both cars also shows a period picture with small short belly burners. When posted earlier about my deal with the '41, my intention was to use them with the lakes plugs and use them a my Sunday-go-to-meeting exhaust!

Verbal Kint

07-19-2010, 11:54 AM

My dad has his mind made up on a set of stacks for his 33 truck. Its his, he can have it anyway he wants it.... and while I don't really "get" the look, I bet the Y-block will sound cool and wake his neighbors.

Elrusto

07-19-2010, 07:19 PM

They are dumb. Maybe they could be defined at traditional, however there were a lot of trends of the period that were dumb and phased out for a reason.

Like straight axles and bias-ply tires? :rolleyes:

Clik

07-19-2010, 07:44 PM

Many tow trucks (gas or otherwise) had stacks for safety reasons. Equipment operated from the rear often directed the exhaust away from the operator.

I ordered a truck with a rear mounted hose reel and opertator's station; the company wouldn't let me take delivery of the truck until the exhaust was modified to a stack. They cited some federal law.

8-9-duck

07-19-2010, 07:46 PM

stacks with flame throwers!! 80mph 40 feet of flame out behind you!!yeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

oldpaint

07-19-2010, 08:01 PM

What's not to like?

pecker head

07-19-2010, 08:02 PM

Like straight axles and bias-ply tires? :rolleyes:

No shit ! That 41 rocks !

Fordguy321

07-22-2010, 11:52 PM

Lol

tommy v

08-19-2010, 01:47 PM

this one had stacks when i got it ,might have to put back on when i get it running http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=7011&pictureid=63421

Ratrod37

08-19-2010, 01:59 PM

I was hoping this was about Stacks from BJ and the Bear!

Elrusto

11-10-2010, 01:03 PM

Well guess what......I STILL DIG'EM !!!

guitar man

11-10-2010, 01:15 PM

Well guess what......I STILL DIG'EM !!!

Me too. My dad was a trucker for 40 years, we lost him in '07 and I'm pretty sure I'm going to run a set on my pickup in tribute to the 'ol man

Atwater Mike

11-10-2010, 01:49 PM

Babe Royer's famous Full Custom F1 (Babe's Muffler Service, San Jose, CA) had stacks since 1953, when the truck was first finished. He changed it over to bed rails ("belly burners") in '55, I asked "Why?" Babe said it was the 'newest thing', and bed rail pipes would be on everything...he was right.
My '55 F100 was an old semi-custom when I got it (1972) I am 3rd owner; the 30-year old seller got it from his Dad, who bought it new. When straightening the running boards, I discovered holes that had been welded up from a set of stacks that were installed back when.
But the only way I'd do stacks is like someone else stated: "They have to come out of the apron, and turn up straight; Not thru the running boards!"
Stacks were a valid custom touch in the '50s.

117harv

11-10-2010, 01:53 PM

Stacks on the BATMOBILE?

porknbeaner

11-10-2010, 01:55 PM

OLIVER BROS GARAGE

11-10-2010, 02:42 PM

I have one 4" stack on my pickup but my truck is big truck inspired (sorta) as I sell big truck parts for a living.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=2390&pictureid=231853

BOWTIE BROWN

11-10-2010, 04:08 PM

The only stack i like is what my ole lady has , ya know .....like a brick shit house.

HotRod60F100

12-16-2010, 08:24 AM

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Jeeze.....and I thought 'rat rods' made from old cars were
bad. :eek: And that's your "buddy 'Dave's" ride??? I
think you *really* need to start hanging around with a
better class of people! But, I must admit....the stacks do
look just as much 'at home' and "right" for it, as everything
else on that 'god-awful ridiculous looking, waste of time
and material P.O S'! I'm sure the stacks - and the whole
so-called 'vehicle' in fact, really impresses the same
'no-mind, low-brows' who also think running stacks on
late model pick-ups - gas or diesel - is "cool" too.!:rolleyes::(

Hmm...never seen the movie I take it?...:rolleyes: