Quick question. My 59 im building as a bellflower car, as true as I can make it. I know the bellflower shotgun pipes under the rear quarters is pretty much the standard for this, but those that have it, are they fully functional as in your actual exhaust tips or just bolted on like alot do with lake pipes? Was wondering because I can imagine how hot they'll get to be so close to the body and paint and especially mine with the cruiser skirts an inch farther out from the body im not trying to bake, Crack and discolor the paint. The pictures I seen of cars with them are right on the body and being almost 3 feet long with no support stretched out along the outside of the body can imagine on bumps it'll bounce around and make contact also are chromed wouldnt the chrome turn blue? I read memo Ortega made them out if old drive shafts and had then chromed, so not sure if they were decorative or functional from the start
Never seen them that were not used. Exhaust that far back in the system are not as hot as you would think. They never touch the baldly anyway.
I’ve run them on the car in my avatar for several years (I should update that pic) close to the quarters with no issues on the paint, they do get hot but never burnt anyone yet.
Fully functional (I didn't know they could be fake...) for 8 years and 25,000 miles, 0 paint issues. The exhaust gases lose alot of temperature by the time they get down 19 ft of pipe.
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