Side Pipes Exhaust

[Daniel13]

Hey has anyone done or thought of having side pipes on there ute

Are the legal?

Are they any good for performance still?

Cheers

[Guest XR09]

In a time and a place where HQ's were new we use to run side pipes called "Laksides". They ran down the side of the sill. Scraped out on everything and were not legal then or now.

[Ace]

I thought on a ute you could have the exhaust dumping out the side in front of the rear wheel?

[Daniel13]

Yea I saw today a fg super pursuit the the exhaust coming out in front of the rear wheel, looked nice

[tichman]

Had lake pipes (tats what theyre called here) on an AU2 xr8 manual ute and later on a BA2 xr8 manual ute. The AU wasnt as bad for bottoming out as the BA (heavier motor maybe? was mounted slightly differently at headers)but it became a case of negotiating speed humps etc slowly and or crossing on an angle.

Theyre legal here as long as they exit behind the rear most door , so on a ute that's pretty easy to do if its near the wheel .

The internal pipes were 2 1/4 inch perforated tube wrapped in exhaust packing the full lenght of the muffler, (nothing in the chrome ends) slid inside a 3 inch outer pipe with chrome round hole perf heat shields held on with exhaust clamps migged to the back of the guards one each end of the guard. Balance pipe just below headers of about 2 inch diameter.

Flowed well and had a distinctive sound, got quite loud if given a bootful but was a nice rumble just tootling about.