That's great. When i was looking at the thumbnails i was thinking 'no way that doesn't break mounts unless they're STRONG' and then i opened that 3rd pic and said 'nevermind!!'. Those mounts look good!
I really like my new (28 hrs) D40, but I park it inside, and the exhaust fills the shop when I startup to move the tractor outside. The exhaust is ported to exit to the left front side of the tractor, and I am looking for a way to port it to the rear so it will go mostly out of the building. I...
So the braided exhaust 'flex' sections you see on tons of front wheel drive cars are not really intended to bend very far or to stay bent to a certain angle. They're only there to accomodate the movement of the engine on its mounts, which is constant but only a few degrees. Really, any kind of angle is cheaper to do in pipe than in those braided flex sections. Internally they are basically just like the old exhaust flex sections we've been talking about, but they have extra layers to prevent leakage and are vastly more expensive.