landcruiser exhaust upgrade

[jakwoo39]

i am currently doing a SOA conversion on my bj74 landcruiser and at the moment my exhaust comes out the side behind the rear passenger wheel, but it goes between the chassis and leaf spring to get there
and because i have lowered my springs for the soa it will hit the exhaust now
since the fuel tank will prevent it coming out the back my next idea was infront of the rear tyre

is this legal? it will be behind the doors but i was told it had to be past the body?
this is where it currently is


and this is where i want it ideally

[crazyclark31]

i had it come out there on my blizzard. Only thing wof man said was it had to come out past the line of the body.
Hope this helps

[muddy]

I'm pretty sure it has to exit aft of any doors or opening windows. So you may have to seal up the sliding rear window.

[jakwoo39]

do i do thet by replacing it with a solid piece of glass??

[muddy]

See what the WOF man says first. I did it in my FJ40 and just wired the catch closed to keep them happy. If there are no back seats fitted, they may not be too fussy. It depends how much the inspector uses his judgement rather than a rigid rule book. It's why I get my WOFs from an old-school mechanic at a rural garage rather than a VTNZ testing station - they're actually tougher on safety-related stuff like brakes, steering, suspension, but sensible about the silly stuff

[ClassicCruiserSpares]

I had my 3" exhaust on my 70 exit infront of the wheel, wof guy said it was fine because its 150mm behind the door.

[jakwoo39]

well its going through cert and i cant find anything about it on the net so it needs to be done right,

I had my 3" exhaust on my 70 exit infront of the wheel, wof guy said it was fine because its 150mm behind the door.

did the 3" exhaust make much of a difference?

[ClassicCruiserSpares]

Hell yea it does but my trucks running a custom 14bt at 20psi.

[badnuz]

if its going thru cert maybe talk to your cert man? i had a side dump on my 70 series drivers side,(only did 2 inch, should have done 2 1/2, sounded like a beasty MF tractor haha!!) got wof no trouble, but i did hear/read something recently about side dumps becoming illegal irrespective.... but hey, just do it if the cert man say sits ok, it really opens them up!!

[jakwoo39]

been to see cert guy today and he said it just has to bee 300mm behind door and im not sure if i have quite that much room