The plan was to run the pipe lower but when it came to building it, it would have just been way too many bends to do that. Its a way more direct route going this way. And David, I'm untreated too. I hear that exhaust wrap works really well and my engine bay has so much air flow with no fender Wells and a lot of plastic crap removed. It always seems to run very cool and I hope it'll be fine. And yea this mild steel did rust fast but its just surface rust, it'll come right off with a 3m pad. Should I use bbq paint or header paint?