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Welcome to the forum, John, but not sure what your question or comment is about side pipes.
If you can outline a little more what information you need, you should get great results posting it in https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...s-1968-1982-5/.
Best wishes
If you can outline a little more what information you need, you should get great results posting it in https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...s-1968-1982-5/.
Best wishes
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Moving this over to C3 General, but I agree with Route99 - you really need to expand on what you are wanting to know about when it comes to C3 side pipes. Hard to give you any comments with the limited info you provided.
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I put a set of '69 factory sidepipes on a '74 L82 Convertible I had a while back (yes, I terribly regret selling it).
Looked great, but awful loud which made the car a toy car to play with instead of a daily driver.
Legal, too, because the catalytic converter didn't appear until the '75 model year.
Sidepipes "may" be legal now in some states for late 70's cars because emission control isn't looked at on cars that are over 25 years old. Check to make sure.
Looked great, but awful loud which made the car a toy car to play with instead of a daily driver.
Legal, too, because the catalytic converter didn't appear until the '75 model year.
Sidepipes "may" be legal now in some states for late 70's cars because emission control isn't looked at on cars that are over 25 years old. Check to make sure.
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As a bona fide geezer who foolishly did "loud" things all my life (rock band in high school, shooting sports, full scale pilot, motorcycles (Harley's, of course), loud tools for body work as a profession and on and on...), I will offer a bit of friendly advice before you have to say "WHAT?" to just about anything people say to you: Keep it down young fella.
