I have to admit that it looked a lot cleaner before when you could only see the stripes of the hose clamps against the black tubing and you didn't really see the aluminum angle "attached" to the tubing. But this way it's even more bombproof than before.

I think I could have easily gotten away with just the Stainless steel extension on the plastic exhaust output flange, but I figured I might as well over-build it since it failed twice before...




Alternatively, I could have used some kind of U-bolt setup instead of the hose clamps, but I'd already bought those and they seemed to be holding quite well. Really you won't even see the hose clamps attaching the tubing to the aluminum angle bar unless you get up under the platform and look...