What did you do at work today?

[Ugly1]

That Plymouth is beautiful. Looking at the trouble you went through to route the passenger side exhaust, I wonder what would have been the best solution (single pipe?). I am considering a single 3.5" or 4" pipe routed in the factory manner on my SBO '78 Cutlass since the TBI kit I want to use has a single O2 sensor. If an x-pipe helps with scavenging, then a single pipe has to take that concept to the max. My Hooker g-body LS swap exhaust (x-pipe and a bunch of clamps) has been a big disappointment... next car is getting a 1-off at an exhaust shop.

The TBI aftermarket unit is designed to work with it in just at the collector. I believe there is a number of gentlemen here that already have that system and it may be in the G Body tech section of the forum.
If you’re just looking for loud anything over 2.5”/3” is just that. If you’re looking for additional HP, header length and amount of scavenging/back pressure and mufflers can come in to play.
Talk to some of the guys running SBO they’ve been there and done that! There is a whole section here dedicated to Olds G bodies.
Also ( yes it’s made for tv) but on “engine masters” they did an episode playing with headers short/ mid-/and long as well as crossovers vs. X-pipe for torque and power. May give you some insight. Everyone has their own preferences but proof is in the pudding! (Sorry showing my age 🙄)You may have what you need but just need to tweak it.

 

[-dw-]

That Plymouth is beautiful. Looking at the trouble you went through to route the passenger side exhaust, I wonder what would have been the best solution (single pipe?). I am considering a single 3.5" or 4" pipe routed in the factory manner on my SBO '78 Cutlass since the TBI kit I want to use has a single O2 sensor. If an x-pipe helps with scavenging, then a single pipe has to take that concept to the max. My Hooker g-body LS swap exhaust (x-pipe and a bunch of clamps) has been a big disappointment... next car is getting a 1-off at an exhaust shop.

I’ve been under many fixed up classics. This one was done nice. While I tried talkin them out of it but the customer requested 2.5” duals. For sakes of actually lookin decent, meeting correctly up to the manifold and have some clearance the first two feet were 2”. Fuel tank is offset on the drivers side for a tail pipe route but the passenger side, well it took some xtra swearing and sectioning to get it through with decent clearance. 2 1/4” or 2” duals woulda been fine.

I’m getting ya on the single pipe idea. Concidered it a few times for my 84 but that change is really unnecessary for now. A correctly sized single should work very well. Heck all these yrs of piping trucks those equipped with a ypipe I refused to cut it out for true duals. Always a custom ypipe or single in dual out muffler and two tail pipes. As for trucks with factory dual inlet muffler I make a custom x pipe and then pipe it. They just sounded better.

 

[Ugly1]

I’ve been under many fixed up classics. This one was done nice. While I tried talkin them out of it but the customer requested 2.5” duals. For sakes of actually lookin decent, meeting correctly up to the manifold and have some clearance the first two feet were 2”. Fuel tank is offset on the drivers side for a tail pipe route but the passenger side, well it took some xtra swearing and sectioning to get it through with decent clearance. 2 1/4” or 2” duals woulda been fine.

I’m getting ya on the single pipe idea. Concidered it a few times for my 84 but that change is really unnecessary for now. A correctly sized single should work very well. Heck all these yrs of piping trucks those equipped with a ypipe I refused to cut it out for true duals. Always a custom ypipe or single in dual out muffler and two tail pipes. As for trucks with factory dual inlet muffler I make a custom x pipe and then pipe it. They just sounded better.

What small block were they run in the Mopar? Want to see if I guessed it right.

 

[-dw-]

What small block were they run in the Mopar? Want to see if I guessed it right.

318 they told me.

 

[86LK]

work? 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

 

[Ugly1]

318 they told me.

I had a feeling. It’s the most affordable way to go with Darts, Valiants, and Scamps. And they just don’t die.

 

[Sweet_Johnny]

Reminded my boss of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 after repeatedly being forced to perform tasks that cause great physical pain as well as notable damage to my neck when it was 100% avoidable. It's been repeating for a month and his solution is to offer me the worst position in the plant instead of having someone prepare just one certain part for shipping. I've been working Quality Assurance (which is a JOKE @ Anchor Fab, Ks!) for a while now after being pulled from the paint booth due to my injuries (which they initially lied about but have admitted to my supervisor), so they're fully aware of what they're doing. This is stacked atop a litany of other illegal, immoral, and just plain stupid practices.

This was the fresh breathing air supply hose for powder coat painters that I shared with others, and the booth has 2 of them. Both hoses had numerous holes and we were told for months that "we looked, they were out" so I taped them up since nobody else would. When new hoses arrived they were in a bookcase in the plant manager's office so I broke in and replaced them myself.



Same hoses still in use ( 20 hours per day) 3 months later:




The company went from cutting lumber next to MEK soaked rags and the fire cabinet...


To also having enough fresh MEK to fill your bathtub. Cabinet is just out of frame.



Today there's just as many of those 5 gallon cans empty (well, almost empty) and OPEN but I forgot to snap a pic. Eddie Koehler, plant manager, supposedly used to be a firefighter so he ABSOLUTELY knows better. They've also modified part of a fire suppression system to be NON OPERATIONAL in the powder storage room containing thousands of pounds of flammable/ explosive plastic powder containing isocyanates. I have video but am unable to post it currently. Basically, they've overridden the part that keeps a gigantic garage door closed to contain a fire since the powder dust kept tripping the safety. If they'd ever clean the room it wouldn't be an issue.



The booth is in its own room, the entire floor gets covered in powder, and that mop water containing micro plastics goes directly down the drain in the mop closet. The big floor cleaner that a person rides and drives used to be dumped into a storm drain that read "No dumping. Goes directly to river" but now Eddie's company just dumps it on the ground.

We recently had 7,000 gallons of EXTREMELY pH Basic water due to a supervisor's mistake, and it was so toxic we couldn't get a reading with our gear that the EPA makes us use. That water was diluted and dumped- about 20,000 gallons of it.

This is next to my station at Q.A. and you're seeing condensation runoff from the HVAC units above the bathroom, office, and break room.


All I need is to NOT perform this one task which contorts my entire spine into positions it just can't accommodate- I require no special attention. Me refusing to perform said task yesterday nearly ended in a blowout between the new "crew leader" and I. A conversation with my supervisor this morning went nearly nowhere but ended with me receiving assistance from another man they wish to run off... one who suffered a crushed pelvis years ago and is severely limited. They put the two oldest, broken down men in the building on a job nobody likes doing even though we struggle. Then they complain and "joke" about it. I was the Golden Boy not too long ago but that's how the Cool Kids operate a business- extremely fickle.

The plant manager is making the decisions and his actions towards me constitute punishment for having physical limitations, seeing as how the offered position is more menial, dangerous, and physically demanding. He knows it would be very difficult for me and is trying to run me off because I call out abuse when I see it. And this place abuses the hell out of us, especially those on Work Release. They do this to people OFTEN and laugh while doing so. If they don't like your haircut they'll make your entire shift hell until you quit, and my supervisor openly admits to trying to run off the same guy for 5 years. He also made a racial "joke" to us about an African American truck driver that involved a watermelon festival. Oh how I wish I was recording that.

I joined JR Custom Metal Products (now Anchor Fabrication, Kansas) to start a career after achieving sobriety and wanting to make up for lost time, and my forum signature applies here more than anywhere. However, I'm having to fight just to maintain my sanity, as this job is the only one to offer enough time each week for me to attend physical therapy. Which reminds me, Eddie constantly changed my schedule until I quit missing 1 hour of work each week to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. He deliberately made it impossible for me to remain employed there and seek what counts as medical treatment for a disease. I quit going to meetings altogether due to that.

I'm looking for a new job now before it goes totally sideways since this family is a nightmare: spoiled, born rich, and never been told "No" before. I spoke with lawyers a year ago about a separate incident there and had an ironclad case but didn't want to file a sexual harassment/ attempted rape case against millionaires. Men can't do that in this society, even if it did take my pocket knife with a 4" long blade to get the Sedgwick County prisoner (who just got into trouble for rape threats against other men) to back off.

Nobody ever considers that this situation is still a reality for many people. Yeah, I'm depressed. Got anxiety too. I wonder why?

If anyone is looking to hire a man that doesn't quit trying even when dying, I'm open to moving out of state and apparently I'm cute if that helps...

 

[86LK]

Reminded my boss of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 after repeatedly being forced to perform tasks that cause great physical pain as well as notable damage to my neck when it was 100% avoidable. It's been repeating for a month and his solution is to offer me the worst position in the plant instead of having someone prepare just one certain part for shipping. I've been working Quality Assurance (which is a JOKE @ Anchor Fab, Ks!) for a while now after being pulled from the paint booth due to my injuries (which they initially lied about but have admitted to my supervisor), so they're fully aware of what they're doing. This is stacked atop a litany of other illegal, immoral, and just plain stupid practices.

This was the fresh breathing air supply hose for powder coat painters that I shared with others, and the booth has 2 of them. Both hoses had numerous holes and we were told for months that "we looked, they were out" so I taped them up since nobody else would. When new hoses arrived they were in a bookcase in the plant manager's office so I broke in and replaced them myself.

View attachment 249331

Same hoses still in use ( 20 hours per day) 3 months later:

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The company went from cutting lumber next to MEK soaked rags and the fire cabinet...
View attachment 249333View attachment 249332

To also having enough fresh MEK to fill your bathtub. Cabinet is just out of frame.

View attachment 249334

Today there's just as many of those 5 gallon cans empty (well, almost empty) and OPEN but I forgot to snap a pic. Eddie Koehler, plant manager, supposedly used to be a firefighter so he ABSOLUTELY knows better. They've also modified part of a fire suppression system to be NON OPERATIONAL in the powder storage room containing thousands of pounds of flammable/ explosive plastic powder containing isocyanates. I have video but am unable to post it currently. Basically, they've overridden the part that keeps a gigantic garage door closed to contain a fire since the powder dust kept tripping the safety. If they'd ever clean the room it wouldn't be an issue.

View attachment 249335

The booth is in its own room, the entire floor gets covered in powder, and that mop water containing micro plastics goes directly down the drain in the mop closet. The big floor cleaner that a person rides and drives used to be dumped into a storm drain that read "No dumping. Goes directly to river" but now Eddie's company just dumps it on the ground.

We recently had 7,000 gallons of EXTREMELY pH Basic water due to a supervisor's mistake, and it was so toxic we couldn't get a reading with our gear that the EPA makes us use. That water was diluted and dumped- about 20,000 gallons of it.

This is next to my station at Q.A. and you're seeing condensation runoff from the HVAC units above the bathroom, office, and break room.
View attachment 249340View attachment 249341

All I need is to NOT perform this one task which contorts my entire spine into positions it just can't accommodate- I require no special attention. Me refusing to perform said task yesterday nearly ended in a blowout between the new "crew leader" and I. A conversation with my supervisor this morning went nearly nowhere but ended with me receiving assistance from another man they wish to run off... one who suffered a crushed pelvis years ago and is severely limited. They put the two oldest, broken down men in the building on a job nobody likes doing even though we struggle. Then they complain and "joke" about it. I was the Golden Boy not too long ago but that's how the Cool Kids operate a business- extremely fickle.

The plant manager is making the decisions and his actions towards me constitute punishment for having physical limitations, seeing as how the offered position is more menial, dangerous, and physically demanding. He knows it would be very difficult for me and is trying to run me off because I call out abuse when I see it. And this place abuses the hell out of us, especially those on Work Release. They do this to people OFTEN and laugh while doing so. If they don't like your haircut they'll make your entire shift hell until you quit, and my supervisor openly admits to trying to run off the same guy for 5 years. He also made a racial "joke" to us about an African American truck driver that involved a watermelon festival. Oh how I wish I was recording that.

I joined JR Custom Metal Products (now Anchor Fabrication, Kansas) to start a career after achieving sobriety and wanting to make up for lost time, and my forum signature applies here more than anywhere. However, I'm having to fight just to maintain my sanity, as this job is the only one to offer enough time each week for me to attend physical therapy. Which reminds me, Eddie constantly changed my schedule until I quit missing 1 hour of work each week to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. He deliberately made it impossible for me to remain employed there and seek what counts as medical treatment for a disease. I quit going to meetings altogether due to that.

I'm looking for a new job now before it goes totally sideways since this family is a nightmare: spoiled, born rich, and never been told "No" before. I spoke with lawyers a year ago about a separate incident there and had an ironclad case but didn't want to file a sexual harassment/ attempted rape case against millionaires. Men can't do that in this society, even if it did take my pocket knife with a 4" long blade to get the Sedgwick County prisoner (who just got into trouble for rape threats against other men) to back off.

Nobody ever considers that this situation is still a reality for many people. Yeah, I'm depressed. Got anxiety too. I wonder why?

If anyone is looking to hire a man that doesn't quit trying even when dying, I'm open to moving out of state and apparently I'm cute if that helps...

I don't really care about your background ("Work Release" and all that, etc) but if you want help looking elsewhere, need a bit more info. need to know your job skills as well as where you can/willing/want to relocate to...

that being said, I may not be able to help but I can keep my eyes open

 

[mclellan83]

Reminded my boss of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 after repeatedly being forced to perform tasks that cause great physical pain as well as notable damage to my neck when it was 100% avoidable. It's been repeating for a month and his solution is to offer me the worst position in the plant instead of having someone prepare just one certain part for shipping. I've been working Quality Assurance (which is a JOKE @ Anchor Fab, Ks!) for a while now after being pulled from the paint booth due to my injuries (which they initially lied about but have admitted to my supervisor), so they're fully aware of what they're doing. This is stacked atop a litany of other illegal, immoral, and just plain stupid practices.

This was the fresh breathing air supply hose for powder coat painters that I shared with others, and the booth has 2 of them. Both hoses had numerous holes and we were told for months that "we looked, they were out" so I taped them up since nobody else would. When new hoses arrived they were in a bookcase in the plant manager's office so I broke in and replaced them myself.

View attachment 249331

Same hoses still in use ( 20 hours per day) 3 months later:

View attachment 249330


The company went from cutting lumber next to MEK soaked rags and the fire cabinet...
View attachment 249333View attachment 249332

To also having enough fresh MEK to fill your bathtub. Cabinet is just out of frame.

View attachment 249334

Today there's just as many of those 5 gallon cans empty (well, almost empty) and OPEN but I forgot to snap a pic. Eddie Koehler, plant manager, supposedly used to be a firefighter so he ABSOLUTELY knows better. They've also modified part of a fire suppression system to be NON OPERATIONAL in the powder storage room containing thousands of pounds of flammable/ explosive plastic powder containing isocyanates. I have video but am unable to post it currently. Basically, they've overridden the part that keeps a gigantic garage door closed to contain a fire since the powder dust kept tripping the safety. If they'd ever clean the room it wouldn't be an issue.

View attachment 249335

The booth is in its own room, the entire floor gets covered in powder, and that mop water containing micro plastics goes directly down the drain in the mop closet. The big floor cleaner that a person rides and drives used to be dumped into a storm drain that read "No dumping. Goes directly to river" but now Eddie's company just dumps it on the ground.

We recently had 7,000 gallons of EXTREMELY pH Basic water due to a supervisor's mistake, and it was so toxic we couldn't get a reading with our gear that the EPA makes us use. That water was diluted and dumped- about 20,000 gallons of it.

This is next to my station at Q.A. and you're seeing condensation runoff from the HVAC units above the bathroom, office, and break room.
View attachment 249340View attachment 249341

All I need is to NOT perform this one task which contorts my entire spine into positions it just can't accommodate- I require no special attention. Me refusing to perform said task yesterday nearly ended in a blowout between the new "crew leader" and I. A conversation with my supervisor this morning went nearly nowhere but ended with me receiving assistance from another man they wish to run off... one who suffered a crushed pelvis years ago and is severely limited. They put the two oldest, broken down men in the building on a job nobody likes doing even though we struggle. Then they complain and "joke" about it. I was the Golden Boy not too long ago but that's how the Cool Kids operate a business- extremely fickle.

The plant manager is making the decisions and his actions towards me constitute punishment for having physical limitations, seeing as how the offered position is more menial, dangerous, and physically demanding. He knows it would be very difficult for me and is trying to run me off because I call out abuse when I see it. And this place abuses the hell out of us, especially those on Work Release. They do this to people OFTEN and laugh while doing so. If they don't like your haircut they'll make your entire shift hell until you quit, and my supervisor openly admits to trying to run off the same guy for 5 years. He also made a racial "joke" to us about an African American truck driver that involved a watermelon festival. Oh how I wish I was recording that.

I joined JR Custom Metal Products (now Anchor Fabrication, Kansas) to start a career after achieving sobriety and wanting to make up for lost time, and my forum signature applies here more than anywhere. However, I'm having to fight just to maintain my sanity, as this job is the only one to offer enough time each week for me to attend physical therapy. Which reminds me, Eddie constantly changed my schedule until I quit missing 1 hour of work each week to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. He deliberately made it impossible for me to remain employed there and seek what counts as medical treatment for a disease. I quit going to meetings altogether due to that.

I'm looking for a new job now before it goes totally sideways since this family is a nightmare: spoiled, born rich, and never been told "No" before. I spoke with lawyers a year ago about a separate incident there and had an ironclad case but didn't want to file a sexual harassment/ attempted rape case against millionaires. Men can't do that in this society, even if it did take my pocket knife with a 4" long blade to get the Sedgwick County prisoner (who just got into trouble for rape threats against other men) to back off.

Nobody ever considers that this situation is still a reality for many people. Yeah, I'm depressed. Got anxiety too. I wonder why?

If anyone is looking to hire a man that doesn't quit trying even when dying, I'm open to moving out of state and apparently I'm cute if that helps...

I'm not one to usually involve the law but think if you went to one of the big national law firms they would have a field day with this and not be intimidated by the family having money

 

[Sweet_Johnny]

I don't really care about your background ("Work Release" and all that, etc) but if you want help looking elsewhere, need a bit more info. need to know your job skills as well as where you can/willing/want to relocate to...

that being said, I may not be able to help but I can keep my eyes open

I'm not one to usually involve the law but think if you went to one of the big national law firms they would have a field day with this and not be intimidated by the family having money

Thank you both for reading that and responding. Too many people will find it easier to avoid because it makes them uncomfortable, and I understand that this is not a political forum nor the place to solve the world's problems but if people can't even discuss things they'll never get better. We can all see that the company is engaging in illegal and immoral practices but who's going to stop them? The thoughts in our minds?

I'm also not one to involve the law and I can't stand snitches but I despise bullies and entitled rich people are at the top of that list. This post wasn't necessarily a job application but more of a call to attention: this type of nonsense is still going on in "the greatest country in the free world". Yeah, soldiers fought and died so I can have this life. When will people figure out that being complacent only leads to being taken advantage of? If we don't constantly push the boundaries of what we're discussing then we'll all be gone soon due to self annihilation. Kind of like what's happening in cities all over...

I'm trying to expose a corrupt company that's abusing its workers, and I posted while I had the balls to do it. The situation I find myself in is exactly why people snap- not me, but it's true. "Why are there mass shootings?" This is exactly why: people not being treated as humans, not being heard, and basically being shunned.

If the admins feel these posts are irrelevant or inappropriate in any way then i apologize for disrupting an automotive forum. I'll never apologize for standing up for my rights or pushing boundaries because I was born to change the world. Even if it's in a small way.