I am working on an antiwrap setup for my front axle. Well, it is just one of the bazillion things on my list to do. When I started looking at where to mount the shackle, I decided I wanted it where the stock exhaust down tube was. Now rerouting the exhaust and installing my 2.5" Magnaflow muffler is another item on my list, but until now, it was a low priority. So now I have to move it to the top of the list to facilitate mounting up the antiwrap crap.

It just so happens, a friend of mine recently installed a cat-back setup on his F150. Me being a scrounge, I took all his stock crap and leftover Flowmaster kit parts off his hands. This has worked out fairly well since my stock tube was some funky size under 2"; I ended up with some quality 2.25" (or 2.5"? I can't figure out if I'm suppeosed to measure ID or OD) tube and assorted bends for nothing. Of course nothing is free, and neither is this project: My wife convinced me to run a cat, so I got a 2.25" unit from Summit. The Ford tail pipe has jsut the right bend and length to be the start of my system. I hacked the flange off my down tube and welded the section of Ford tailpipe to it. Another peice is melted on now and tommorrw, the cat goes on. I'm working my way back. The system will end up 2.25 from the stock manifold to the cat and then 2.5" from there to the muffler and tail pipe.