History Belly Burner exhaust, let's discuss

No offense but if you can't you probably shouldn't be building a custom truck.

 

I overthink everything. I don’t like changing horses in midstream. It’s a rhetorical question...

 

Did not affect the paint at all. The pipes got hot enough to burn your belly if you leaned on them with a t shirt. Not third degree burns or anything, but you jumped back a little. Same issue with lake pipes and ankles, I would guess.

 

The paint was my main worry....

 

It's not like anything that touches them bursts into flame.

 

I think you may need one support piece, as shown here.

 

That’s what I am talking about right there!

 

Me too and I wish I had that part of my brain where it is engraved forever back. I can never unsee those and it hurts....

 

Thanks for the positive input. It was helpful.

 

Took me a while to find this pic.

 

Is that yours Blake?

 

You could weld a stud onto the back side of the pipe and mount it as many times/ places as you want with out it being easily seen

 

That's Art Himsl's truck. Recently refurbished, I saw it at GNRS 2016.

Originally built in 1958.

 

No wonder it looks so right.
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Geeze, I grew up with them and never heard them called that.... Dad's 54 Ford had them along with a snap on tonneau from convertable top material. Mostly on Fords since they fit better. Chevs up it 54 had the room but the lack of a V8 held them back. The 55-up Chevs didn't have much room between the fenders and bed rail so not too popular but there were some. If you burned your belly on them you might have been a Happy Meal short a bag of french fries.

 

Lake pipes AND belly burners:

Belly burners AND stacks:

 

Sancho- now if we could just find an old pic of one with lakes pipes, belly burners, AND stacks we'd be cookin'!

I say that knowing somewhere a Hamber has just that picture, haha

 

Yep, pretty sure I could come up with that combination if I looked long enough.....

 

Not feeling the stacks. Little Red Express comes to mind when I see them.

 

Yeah, not everyone digs them. I think the key to avoiding the 70's trucker/Red Express look is small diameter pipes. And of course no perforated heat shields.
But, it does have belly burners, just ignore the stacks.

 

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I dug them , small kids want to touch them though. I have a couple Videos on Instagram at 40pumike .

 

Nice truck! And as @Tim explained above, that's how you do it with "hidden" mounts.

 

Seeing belly burners always reminds me of this:
We were headed down I81 to York for the Nats East back in the early 80s and a Deuce highboy pickup with belly burners blew past us doing probably a 100. We ran into the guy by his truck the next day at the fairgrounds and shot the breeze for a few minutes and I said "we saw you yesterday, you passed us on 81". The guy laughed and said "shit, I passed EVERYONE yesterday". Said if he got caught he was going to try the stuck throttle excuse and that he got it freed up with his foot.

 

This truck rules!

 

Root, on my '29 I welded tabs on the back side of the pipes and bolted up into the bed rails with the old familiar muffler hanger donuts in between. Didn't show except from certain angles.
Never liked those up the back of the cab stacks - something about trying (unsuccessfully) to emulate a Big Rig, ugh.

 

Right on time.....I just picked this up Tuesday.

 

A coupe of trucks I looked at in the past had holes in the running boards, right in line for either stacks or belly burners......the last one was a '36 p/u that looked like a mid 60's build.

 

I was planning on welding flange nuts in the back of the tubing, that way I could use an allen head bolt and it would look similar to the bed rivets.

Mike, is that stainless tubing? How did you get the bend? Mandrel or sand packed or did you buy it that way? I can get stuff bent, but the thin wall stuff will wrinkle.