2 Tip GT VW Beetle & Ghia Exhaust Installation:

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hello everyone I'm Sam with jbugs.com and it's been a minute but we're back to work on our 1967 Beetle we haven't done much of all with this car uh short of taking it out and about to a couple different car shows here locally couple cruise nights we've tested a couple products on it and uh while been driving it out and about I've noticed a little bit of an exhaust Le so we're going to take care of that today with our new two tipped GT Style exhaust system one thing that differs this from most of the other exhaust out there on the market is we do have a low pressure separate preheat tube high pressure here low pressure here this high pressure side gets blown up through the intake manifold through these tubes back here down to this side to basically just keep the intake manifold from icing up otherwise what happens is it's kind of like if you've ever held a spray can in your hand for a long time while you're spraying paint all the vapors that are escaping that can or all the vapors the fuel vapor in the air that's getting drawn through the intake manifold that'll actually cause the intake manif fold to ice up so that's why Volkswagen put this preheater tube and that's what I'm going to do today I'm going to swap out this old leaking exhaust for a new exhaust replace all the gaskets we'll take a look at the heater Bo boxes oh and you might have noticed that we have a lift now after how many years of doing videos uh doing what we can to help show you guys at home that a you can do all these things without lift absolutely I've done it I've restored my entire Super Beetle top the bottom nut and bolt every single part in that car without a lift and I've done it multiple times in my own cars in the garages in past without a lift we have the lift here simply to make things easier to show you guys what we're working on well that and I'm getting older and it's nice to not have to be on the ground anymore that's just a small benefit so with that um let me get this thing jacked up in the air and then uh I'll get to work so major thing I can see now with this thing up in the air is got a number of pin holes across the back side of here and here which is probably why or where a majority of our exhaust leaks are coming from heater boxes although they're old and crusty they actually don't look to be in very bad shape so hopefully everything there is good we're going to start by pulling this exhaust off I guess I'll while I have this thing up I'll go ahead and loosen our clamps here and here no need to worry about the tail pipes we'll have to come in the top side pull off the rear engine tin uh but either way I can get this Bellows clamp here and here off just a couple things here and there while the car's up we'll get taken care of and uh then we'll drop the car back down and get everything on the top [Music] side I think I said it before when I actually originally first pulled this engine out and saw the exhaust but it's amazing that this thing still has a Volkswagen muffler on it I just can't believe it uh it also still had a factory Volkswagen clutch in it can't believe that me of anybody would say that because I've never really been one for patina but this car is really grown on me I get why a lot of people like the style up until this car in my opinion sorry uh patina cars were just you're being lazy go out and restore the car make it fresh and new again but this thing as original and solid as it was uh short of the floor pans and some other stuff I just I couldn't I can't see going through and doing a full Resto on this car it's so good the way it is why change it just get it alive and working again just get it back to life and working again to driving again we can go out and enjoy it and not have to worry about scratching paint on a brand new uh paint job I've owned you know extremely nice show cars and you really can't enjoy them like you can this thing it's really nice to get into a car drive it without caring about getting it scratched dented ding anything along those lines it's kind of liberating honestly because every time i' take out whether it be my Volkswagen thing that I had restored years back or my 1971 Super Beetle that I've fully restored on this channel every time you take the car out you're worried about it getting dented dinged scratched you have so much time and energy into restoring the car and making it look like brand new that you really once it's done you're afraid to take it anywhere at least that's my feeling i' I've got so much invested in these things personally these cars for those out there that have the means and can afford to buy one of these things fully restored and you don't have all that personal connection to the car have at it you don't have that personal relationship with the car but for me personally when I've got so much invested into a restoration I hate to see anything done to it as far as to take away from all the work that I've done here that's just my feelings yours might be different and again so many people do really love that patina look so much so as they go to actually fake it whereas this car was definitely not all natural patina it's like somebody had started to restore it and lost interest or lost motivation or any other circumstances that could have happened the way it's just been sitting awaiting restoration awaiting a chance to come back to life it's just weathered really really awesomely so I really enjoy this car all right hopefully I can do this with all the stuff in my face but let's start by pulling out our fresh air hoses uh we need to get this guy this guy this guy that guy this guy this guy this guy and that guy that guy there that guy there that guy there that guy there so let's get to work on those why does this feel like there's a nut down there because there is that's not the way it should be but that's the way [Applause] is man I tell you what it's uh pretty nice having a lift to be able to work while I'm standing as opposed to punch down with that our rear engine tin is out with that out of the way we'll get to working on this bolt here that bolt there our heat Riser bolts here here and here and there and then we'll go down to the bottom and get those bottom exhaust bolts one thing worth noting is that anytime you're pulling off old exhaust bolts there's a very high chance especially on something as old as this that you might break off an exhaust St a couple things you can do to kind of try and help that is to warm up the engine get some heat into those bolts expand those pieces uh often times that can help and because only got knows when the last time this thing was off I think I might do that so I'm going to roll up the uh open up the rollup door here hop in the car start this engine up and let it run just to get some heat in and hopefully that will allow me to more easily get uh these bolts out is it more difficult working on a hot exhaust absolutely but guess what's more difficult pulling out exhaust studs or dropping an engine to replace the heads on something where you just snaap a stud in the head all right hopefully that should help all right I've got all four of these two tops and the two bottoms I've got those broken free so hopefully they will continue to come out freely uh now we work on these top bolts for our heat risers you know what we don't need this door open anymore as much as I love the sound of freedom I don't particularly care for all the background so now just got to remove these two and then we'll Jack it up and do the bottom two and then that exhaust should be able to come off I guess we're just going to do it the oldfashioned way with a wrench that's everything on the top side let me put her up in the air and then we'll jump down to the bottom all right now I need to get that guy and that guy which aren't really easy to get but we'll get him I sure am glad I warmed up this exhaust I don't know if that made all the difference in the world or if this thing is just being really nice fortunately these nuts have broken free relatively easily I've had plenty that haven't matter of fact that beige Super Beetle that was here little over a year ago at this point we brought it in to test fit this same two- tip GT exhaust system when we first started developing it over a year ago snapped off a stud in the head which meant that I then had to drop the engine and replace the heads when we had the heads off we found out the car had low compression Pistons so it actually had come from a oh look at that that stud did lock up on that so we'll have to replace that anyway like I was saying I had to actually replace or I ended up replacing the top end in that car and uh doing a whole bunch of other unintended work because it did actually snap off a stud and this one is being a booger as well and this is why when I put our new exhaust on I'm going to be using some 10 mm headed nuts makes all the difference between having that extra bit of clearance to get a ratcheting head wrench makes life so much easier so you're not coming at this thing from three different directions this stud's coming out too that guy locked up as well with that our original Volkswagen exhaust is off then we can see here now this has a left side preheat tube Volkswagen moved this from this side to this side uh when they came out with the auto stick to make room for the auto stick oil lines and everything else that had to go that way doesn't really matter if you have a left side preheat tube or a right side preheat tube as long as you have a low pressure side and a high pressure side you can see all the soot that is on this side here and not so much over here uh one thing I'm also going to do now I'm going to try to blow air through this tube to make sure that that exhaust preheat tube isn't clogged full of soot seems pretty clogged up uh I'm going to take a accelerator cable heavy duty or something similar and see if I can't feed it through to clean out that tube a little bit well in the meantime let me pull these off if I can good Lord there we go this one might be uh too far gone unfortunately no single port intake manifolds are made right now and really not a good example to show off the preheat tubes on this exhaust with an intake manifold that doesn't have preheat tubes that work but it is what it is short of going through and pulling this intake manifold off and soaking it uh I don't know if there's much I can do at this point to try and get this thing cleared out there's nothing doing huh I think that thing is just so clogged full of soot that think I'm fighting a losing battle there I need to get some new exhaust studs put in in these heads and then we can go ahead and put on our new exhaust heater boxes look solid feel solid I don't see any evidence of any exhaust leaks up at the head on the back sides it's really hard to show you it's really tight in there but I'll see what I can do on the images that I took with my cell phone earlier in that I'm going to put some studs in and then we'll slide our new exhaust on that booger is a little tight do some double nuts on that our exhaust doesn't come with gaskets but you can get some proper German gaskets part number 111 298 009 F get your new clamps gaskets hardware and we're going to start by putting some gaskets on the heads over the new studs come on apparently it's easier said than done now that we've got gaskets at the heads we'll put some gaskets on our heater boxes and clamps clamping Rings clamping ring goes first clamping ring and Gasket now we can see how well our new gust installs normally we're going to tell you to loosen up the heater boxes but I don't want to cuz they're not leaking cuz it installs on the head it's just no problem on both sides we got that guy there we got that guy there the wavy washer on like so same thing on this bottom over here in a moment Bo wavy washer first and followed by a high clearance nut and can I get that top side maybe barely as I'm sitting here looking at this car and remember driving it this car still has a factory sway bar for 1967 and 1968 they called it a zbar they only use it for those two years and as soon as it went to the IRS they discontinued it but I'm looking at the zbar going I wonder if it's missing some bushings and as we have the bushing kits for them I might do a video on replacing the Zar bushings what do you guys think about that let me know in the comments below I got that I got that I got that I got that and if we're lucky haa I can get a ratcheting 10 mm wrench in on these nuts how handy is that 14 ftlb feels about right and that one not so much but should have ample room to get our wrench in here I still got to flip it and flop it but at least I can easily get it that feels like 14t lbs let's put some clamps on our lower tubes and then we'll drop it down start up all right so we've got Bolt flat washer spring washer and nut bolt flat washer through the clamp through the other clamp spring washer nut that's the order of operation and installing these guys got this guy in I got to go throw the on now and a lot of times what helps is just preet it one nut like so with one side already set in place it makes it easy to come in and do this side all right I'm going get all these guys tightened down here then we'll move it back up top all right everything's tight here our bottom studs are tight now we're going to go up top and work on our heat risers and our top exhaust nuts and we'll get this thing all wrapped up I can actually get a ratchet in here good got enough play there that one might be a little snug like a glove that one might be a little tough if you got some nice powder coated tin probably don't want to be doing this but it works it should be lined up enough for a bolt that one drops in no problem but I will need to get some longer bolts cuz I can barely get a nut in the back of that all right I'm back with some fresh Hardware some longer bolts some 20 mil bolt with washers and let's use a trick I like to use just like that that one's in let's do that a couple more times just like that all right that slide hopefully will be a little bit easier I'm not working completely backwards now hold on on this side I need my alignment punch this all it takes just a little punch all right one more to go on the back all right so we've got all four of those in place let's snug all those [Music] down now I've got our heat risers tightened up our exhaust ports tightened up and our exhaust clamps tightened up I'm going to wipe down our tail pipes because these are stainless steel any fingerprints oils or anything else that gets burned into them will be pretty hard to get off the TT going to stain the stainless steel on how that works so anyway I'm going to wipe these clean and then we're going to start her up check for exhaust leaks and then once that's done we'll go ahead and reassemble all the engine tin and heat Riser blockoff plates put our fan shroud hoses back in place show you guys how to extend the fan shroud hoses through the tin and connect to the heater boxes just like original even though we no longer have kidney BS so you can see that our tail pipes are almost perfectly lined up with our apron cutouts every car is a little bit different uh the way the car has been settled and shifted over the years any damaged either either chassis or bodywise will shift a little bit but they do sit relatively flat across the bottom of the car we've got excellent ground clearance I'm going to start this thing up in a moment and you guys will be able to hear it uh hopefully you can hear it over the jets flying above I don't know if the audio is coming through proper you're not but it actually still has a little bit of that Volkswagen whistle but when you get on it sounds nice and throaty one thing I'm amazed with is I'm not certain what these things are painted with but we are at least six or seven minutes into this thing running and there is no sign of any of this coating burning off they are Co with a very high temp paint so that's a plus in my book let this thing cool off for a moment I need to clean off the rear engine chin rinse that off get it put back in place get all the uh heat Riser block offs put in place and then we can work on getting our new fan shroud hose extensions put back in place so that's all that so with that our engine tin is all in place now we'll get our fan shrut hoses extended the hose that you get with a lot of aftermarket exhausts usually about y long sometimes if it's pulled out and stretched out it's you know y long compress it cut it in half and then you can use that to extend from your rear engine tin and the hose there down to the heater box here we're going have to slightly crush this tube to wrap around the exhaust pipe right there and then it'll be able to stick up in place into our sleeve which will attach to our fan TR hose up top just flatten it out just a touch with the hammer shape it as need be and a lot of times it's just easier to slide it that way and then twist it up in place let's see if I can get this guy in there probably the same thing as before do a little pre crush and then squeeze him through there and back up to our rear engine tin now we've got our extended hoses back in place and take our sleeves pop those in place like so and like so take our original hoses drop that down in place never was a fan of this style oil filler it's a such a tight fit and connection there all right there we go all right we're done with the exhaust install hopefully I haven't exhausted you guys wasn't too bad I'm actually very very pleased these with the uh fit and finish and the sound these are just really really a great little exhaust two- tip GT it still only has an inch and 38 tubing uh inside diameter I believe that is so it's not great for big displacement engines I would keep this on something underneath uh 1800 1835 pushing it on like a mild 1915 would be perfect that's why I would use this thing ideally on something of that displacement anything larger honestly you're going to cut back horsepower dramatically just not being able to flow that much exhaust gases through the muffler hopefully that showed you guys at home how easy it is to install your own exhaust and with that I'm sandwich jbugs.com thanks for watching and life's full of good people if you can't find one be one later guys