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Old Jun 14, 2018 | 12:20 PM
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Has anyone had any experience with installing Gardner Exhaust systems? If so, how did it go; I.E. was it pretty much identical to original? Did it bolt on pretty easily without making modifications?

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I had a Gardner exhaust system. It bolted up easily, looked nice for what it was, but still loses points when being judged.

An exhaust system that costs half as much loses the same amount of points, just sayin.
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Thanks for the feedback. Any recommendations for alternatives? I contacted a local shop that fabricates systems for classics and customs (Kinny's in Watauga near Hurst) and they claim they can make a system that is "identical" to original. Have you heard of them?

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I had a Gardner exhaust system. It bolted up easily, looked nice for what it was, but still loses points when being judged.

An exhaust system that costs half as much loses the same amount of points, just sayin.
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Thanks for the feedback. Any recommendations for alternatives? I contacted a local shop that fabricates systems for classics and customs (Kinny's in Watauga near Hurst) and they claim they can make a system that is "identical" to original. Have you heard of them?
Nope, never heard of them.

IIRC Jim Anderson and Gary Bosselman were working on an "original" exhaust system. You may want to contact them though the NCRS.
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are you doing NCRS judging that you are so concerned that the system has to be identical to original?
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That is my aim, yes.

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are you doing NCRS judging that you are so concerned that the system has to be identical to original?
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