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

[macavely]

you have a lot of options when it come to running the pipping after the cat... you could make and L and have it goung out before the wheelwell .. as for going right over the gas tank i wouldn't do it be that just me... and i really don't know how safe that would be ... but just keep the pipe at least and inch and half away from anything that can get damaged by extream heat