Given the damage that a broken pipe can do I asked Velocity to weld tabs on the pipes so they could be wired to prevent a broken piece from going through the prop. They responded by welding small loops made from pieces of welding wire that after being bent a few times they would fail. I broke them off and had 1/4" SS washers bent in the middle about 30 degrees welded to the pipes inboard and outboard of the welds. The long side has three washers and the short side 2. As seen in the picture 1/8" SS wire is bolted to the engine using the holes provided for baffle attachment. You take a piece of (I can't remember) 5/16 or 3/8" rod and push it up in the hole and mark it thru the hole in the side, remove and drill & tap for an AN3 bolt to hook your safety wire to. I would recommend a minimum of 1/16" wire since it may take a real beating from the piece in the airflow banging around. Notice that my exhaust goes back and uses the standard exhaust fairings with the back cut an an angle so the pipes are behind the fairing but basically exhausting down and back at about a 45 degree angle. Putting my lower cowl on is no problem since it just slides over the pipes. Questions to - Jim_Agnew_2@Yahoo.Com

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