exhaust pipping, safe or NOT-safe ??? Options

[sphinx]

I'm getting my exhaust piping done on Saturday. I went to the guy who's gonna do it for me, and we lifted the car to see exactly how "I" want the piping to run.

My thing is that i want the piping as straight as possible eliminating all those curves and turns. It's going to be a 3" piping and in order for it to be the way i want it, it would have to run under a lil section of the gas tank.

So here's the question.

Do you people think it's safe enough to run it under the tank like that or not. Or is there something that i can do to restrict so much heat under the tank that i can still run it that way?

This post has been edited by sphinx_race911: Feb 18, 2004 - 11:48 AM

[sphinx]

yeah. I finished the swap about 2 months ago. I've been running my 2.5" exhaust piping for now. And i also know that there's a section where it's supposed to go arround the tank, but i was just wondering if i could eliminate that turn, and just go straight from there.

But if it's not safe enough under the tank, then i wont even try it.