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Dan -

A buddy suggested the following for supporting the exhaust system at the back end.  I ran the idea past Orin and he liked it, too.  The basic concept is to use a rubber exhaust hanger from a car.  These have holes in them -- one at each end.  One end can get bolted to an Adel clamp attached to the engine mount.  The other end gets attached to the exhaust pipe somehow -- possibly to the clamp which holds the exhaust extensions to the headers.  You do need to support the exhaust extensions or they are guaranteed to crack somewhere, but I think you already know this.  You also have no place to attach it except to non-moving structure (firewall or engine mount) so you need a lot of compliance in the attachment mechanism.

I can't give you any more details, because I haven't gone to the auto parts store and rummaged around.  The ones I used on my 1979 Triumph Spitfire would be perfect (these were sized and shaped like thick dominoes with a hole at each end) but I wouldn't recommend trying to find Triumph parts -- that was hard enough in 1986!

- Rob Wolf

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