Guilty Pleasure Modifications - Exhaust Cutouts And Flamethrower Kits

Adler tipped us off to a cool trick that allows you to determine the best placement of the cutouts on your exhaust system. Draw a line with chalk along your exhaust pipes from the header collector or catalytic converter to the muffler. Drive the car around for a while to get the exhaust system good and hot. That heat will burn off some of the chalk, leaving a faint trace of the original line. Find the spot where the chalk line remains intact. This is the optimum location for the cutouts. If space does not permit it, you can put the cutouts anywhere between this spot and the mufflers.

This is the spot where our Camaro would like a cutout, but you can see there's not a lot of room for the cutout housing and electric motor. We decided to install them farther downstream to where the floorpan is higher.

This is the mounting location that worked best for us. Notice how the floorpan kicks up just in front of the muffler. There is plenty of room here for the Y-pipe, cutout housing, and electric motor.

The standard Quick Time cutout housing mounts to the Y-pipe with a typical three-bolt flange. Bolt them in place and wire up the motors.

For cars with major clearance problems, Quick Time also sells these low-profile, oval-shaped cutouts.

The kit is available with an optional remote control unit that can be mounted near the driver seat and allows complete control over the opening and closing of the cutouts. You can run them partially open during normal driving, fully open at the track or when you want to intimidate the guy next to you at the light, and fully closed when you're driving Grandma around.

By John McGann

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