Never posted the finished 2 into 1 collector.......

I never posted my 2 into1 collector system after I finished off the welds on all the joints. This will look killer in gloss black porcelain. If you can't tell, this is my homage to Dick Allen, and his pioneering collector system, with a few of my own tweaks. Well worth the time it took to make this, I'm stoked.

This goes right along with Dick's aluminum rear wheel I'm using, which is off in this photo. I'm sending it in to Centerline for a rehab. Did you know that Centerline will remove the old sealer between the rims, re-seal it, give it a full polish, and send it back for $55.00 ???? Are you kidding me ????? I'm also getting the hubs and the rotor carrier polished here in town while the wheel is away. And, I got a chance to drill the 16, 5/16" holes in the solid rear belt pulley, spaced in the same pattern as the wheel's rivets, and hand-bucked in the high-domed hard aluminum rivets. Now the pulley matches the wheel.

I didn't want band clamps for the merge pipe connection, and I know you can buy these from Cone Eng., Burns Stainless, etc, but I just couldn't see buying two - they probably wouldn't have fit up as well, and they aren't as thick as I made these. If I were doing a V-8, and needed 8 pairs, yeah...I'd have bought them. I just have them tacked in place here, but the whole system is pretty strong, and self-supporting. I'm still going to add a small support to the collector itself.