Need help making a custom exhaust. Ball and socket connection

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Mar 29, 2016 | 10:27 PM

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Need help making a custom exhaust. Ball and socket connection

Hi,

I'm in the process of helping my buddy build a custom full exhaust for his rock crawler with an Ls1. I have a spare set of C5 kook headers which fit perfectly but that's all I have.

My question is how can I duplicate the socket connection you typically find on the kook x-pipe connection point to the headers?

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I've searched on google but haven't found any useful information. Any information will be appreciated.

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Roger

Mar 30, 2016 | 09:51 AM

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you can buy them at retailers. they are made by kooks. i think they are 60 bucks a piece. had to get them when i built the exhaust for my buddies g8.

Mar 30, 2016 | 11:34 AM

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you can buy them at retailers. they are made by kooks. i think they are 60 bucks a piece. had to get them when i built the exhaust for my buddies g8.

Thanks, but I want to do them myself since we are doing the exhaust out of aluminum past the headers.

Roger

Mar 30, 2016 | 12:12 PM

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gotcha. you can have an exhaust shop flair the socket for you(we can make them on my bender at work). just need to find flanges, which i couldn't find on short notice. that's why i used the kooks parts.

Mar 31, 2016 | 02:16 AM

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Can't you just cut the part with the ball **** on it off and go from there with some v-bands or the like?

Mar 31, 2016 | 08:50 AM

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Can't you just cut the part with the ball **** on it off and go from there with some v-bands or the like?

We could but it's something we want to replicate over and over again using kook headers.

Apr 1, 2016 | 01:24 PM

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In order to replicate this over and over you would need the tooling.

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Apr 2, 2016 | 02:14 AM

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Kooks headers don't come with a flange on them last I checked. If you buy their y pipe don't they send you to cheesy *** clamps to use with the other side of the piping expanded to slip over?

I'm just rambling about because the very first time I did a v-banded exhaust system.........it became the only way I'll do it.