The Magician said:
Duane those hoses going thru the holes will wear out and leak. That muffler beign so close to the floor scares me. nice looking machines.
Sharp eye there. You have good attention to detail, I see.
Those rubber grommets actually hold up very well. When I took the pictures that show them missing, we were out of them, because I had increased the hole diameter to 1.375", to make them easier to insert the (large gray) bypass line through. which made the grommets for them harder to find. I sent them after the machines, when I found them, in order to not hold up the ship date for the systems themselves. We keep them in stock now.
There was no significant problem with the heat from the mufflers in that original "Predator" design, but now that the frame is an open design, heat dissipates much more quickly and there is even less of a concern in that regard.
Thanks.