Sidepipe options
Melting Slicks
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My '76 came with the chrome hooker sidepipes...they looked great and sounded great but they're dangerously hot and had many bad burns on folks getting out of the passenger side not being familiar with the hazard. They also only lasted a few years of daily driver (no rain) and they would rust out at the inner meeting point of the four tubes into the collector where the plating didn't seem to flow well. I finally replaced them with the fiberglass covers painted aluminum with gloss top coat and ran standard tailpipe from the exhaust manifolds down the center of the car, stock location, through the frame cutouts to short turbo mufflers and then bend 90 degrees to exit at the sidepipe cover spill locations. It looks like a functional sidepipe system without the heat, cost, and need for periodic replacement. I can change the mufflers at will for standard muffler shop costs and it flows and sounds great
Sounds like a great idea! I too would love to see pics of your setup from the exterior, as well as pics from under the car. 
Racer
Joined: Feb 2002
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Brought my '68 in '72, the first set of Hooker side mounts were installed, in the Fall of that year. Presently just brought my third pair, and running 2.25 id Sweet Thunder inserts.
IMHO, no single bolt-on compared to the horsepower per dollar increase of those header side pipes.
IMHO, no single bolt-on compared to the horsepower per dollar increase of those header side pipes.
Melting Slicks
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