Heres an old video of my old rig. exhaust wouldnt have stood a chance coming out the side

 

I love it! I leave the forum alone for a day and my thread explodes with great info and ideas! Drift, I'll post those pics in a few mins.

 

I just use a stock tail pipe to exit the exhaust,but it's cut before the shackle. The muffler is going to get scrapes and bruises no matter what unless you do what ktm said and armor it with plate.
I never saw any advantage to ending it before the rear axle. I did it once and it was to noisy in the cab, and exiting from the side it's just gonna get mangled.

 

Here are the pics Driftunit wanted to post. He can elaborate more than I can.

 

I'm not sweating the muffler, just the tail pipe. My tail pipe took an a$$-whooping on the last trip. Between the tip getting smooshed between the bumper and some rocks and me rolling backwards into big rocks trying to get a better line, it ended up pretty bent and mangled. I want to get the pipe out of the way. The more I see the more I'm leaning towards cutting the pipe about 10 inches short of the bumper (and maybe putting on a small turn-down). It will be up and out of the way and still route the exhaust to the back of my rig.

 

that is clearly lower than the framerail, and lower than the stock exhaust.

 

I have it cut behind the shackle just pointing straight. No down spouts or anything. But plus my tank is raised, so anybody with the stock gas tank location I would just add a heat shield on the side.

 

That will not survive a good step like the vid ktm posted or even trails with big rocks it will get ripped off or smashed.

 

The Muffler is not lower than the factory setup. That pipe coming off it can be raised at least 3 inches easy. The pipe coming off the muffler can be turned straight

 

a stock exhaust properly hung is barely any below the framerails, that exhaust is considerably sagging lower than stock. Maybe angle of the pics has something to do with it too? but that muffler sure looks lower than any ive ever run. Either way, that is much more vunerable to damage than exhaust run in the stock location straight out the back.

 

Lol you're exactly right


Anyways OP good luck with your setup. If you dont do any extreme tv show wheelin and just enjoy the occasional trail id recomend the side exhaust but if you do then i would recomend chanelling your whole jeep and making a separate tunnel just for the exhaust that goes no where near your wheel or your windows or hatches or any where that it could be seen or touched by anything other than the hand of a highly trained and experienced mechanic/fabricator. Take it easy man, hope all this was helpful and that you got every detail you needed to complete your dream exhaust setup.

 

Thanks brother! Appreciate the help and the pics. Good luck with your rigs as well!

 

just figured if he already had issues in the stock location, he would have even more issues in a more vunerable location.

 

Has anyone ever thought of running the exhaust out of the rear quarter panel, like so?



Just wondering as I have what used to be a rust hole on the passenger side quarter panel after the tire. Would it work or is it crazy talk?

 

ive seen it done before. My 1/4 panels there seem to be the first part of the jeep that gets mangled up anyway though. maybe with a wraparound bumper and hole in the bumper as well.

Just gotta keep in mind that if the exhaust elsewhere gets bent up, it might effect how the pipe sits in that hole.