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Old Sep 18, 2021 | 10:53 PM
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I have a 79 with a gm crate motor and a 4 speed. Im looking to do headers and a full exhaust as mine is pretty trashed. What do you guys recommend? Im not made of money but all im seeing is crossmember back and im looking for engine to tail pipe
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I have a 79 with a gm crate motor and a 4 speed. Im looking to do headers and a full exhaust as mine is pretty trashed. What do you guys recommend? Im not made of money but all im seeing is crossmember back and im looking for engine to tail pipe
Pypes makes a full kit. Not real cheap. Zip sells one too I think. Same with headers. Check Summitt or Jegs
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Got it figured, thank you.
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I have a 79 too. Got a true dual full length 2.5 in. exhaust from corvettecentral. Came with shorty Headers, and magnaflow mufflers. Its all that you need on a mild 350. Had to shave down on of the header flanges to fit around the Temp sensor in the driver side cyl head. Other than that it fit great, and sounds even better. Its a little louder than stock, but not anything that will annoy your neighbors. If you like LOUD loud, I recommend different mufflers, or cutouts infront of them.

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Originally Posted by Cmurray79
I have a 79 too. Got a true dual full length 2.5 in. exhaust from corvettecentral. Came with shorty Headers, and magnaflow mufflers. Its all that you need on a mild 350. Had to shave down on of the header flanges to fit around the Temp sensor in the driver side cyl head. Other than that it fit great, and sounds even better. Its a little louder than stock, but not anything that will annoy your neighbors. If you like LOUD loud, I recommend different mufflers, or cutouts infront of them.
Pypes are too expensive for me on my 78 L82. I want the ones that have a 2 inch flange from the manifold then goes to 2.5 the res of the way.

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