"How close" are the early and late A body tailpipes to being the same buying them pre-bent?
IDK the answer to that. FWIW I have a set of NORS tailpipes sitting in the rafters for a 69 340 Dart. I bought them at my local NAPA at least 30 years ago. The plan was to fit them on a 70 Dart (never got to that stage). Hope to find out on the 65 sedan delivery conversion
ive reused from my 74 to 66 no probs
Our Pypes tailpipes are tested on 1967-1974 A-bodies and fit pretty much interchangeably except some of the A-bodies were a little longer in back. Adding a pair of tips makes up the difference.
Wish you were closer! We'd love to get an early car in here to see if our tailpipes fit the early cars.I am specifically wondering about the 63-66 cars. Mine is a 64.
Wish you were closer! We'd love to get an early car in here to see if our tailpipes fit the early cars.
If you want to e-mail me pics of the undercarriage of the tailpipe area of the car, if it looks encouraging, we'd be interested in sending you a set of tailpipes to try. [email protected]
Wish you were closer! We'd love to get an early car in here to see if our tailpipes fit the early cars.
If you want to e-mail me pics of the undercarriage of the tailpipe area of the car, if it looks encouraging, we'd be interested in sending you a set of tailpipes to try. [email protected]
Funny, I just ordered pipes from Accurate exhaust. I am removing my 2 1/2 header system and going with manifolds and stock sized out the back with tips. Pricey but the headers always scraped and I want a true stock type exhaust. The first setup was from torque tech, i saw they went out of business not too long ago. makes me wish I had invested in pipe benders. I think you just set the machine up and go like Midas used to be. there is a setup for each car ,you set the machine up and it bends the piece. Do think though that, you could make the pipes fit,with a few cuts etc. I have fitted more than a few exhaust setups to cars. It require patience and measure twice,cut once etc.
If you are looking for any performance increases, The key to the bending machines whether automated or not is that they are 'mandrel' design. These are VERY expensive machines and rarely found in a shop.
Here's a staggering fact: 2.5" Mandrel bent tailpipes flow 50% better than 3" compression bent pipes (which are found in 99% of exhaust shops).
So if you care about performance, you want mandrel bent pipes. You lose a little of the OEM look but you can gain 25 HP on even a stock motor. That's a very inexpensive way to gain performance.
Pypes and Torque Tech (and others) use mandrel bending. Accurate used compression bending machines. Good for originality and good quality but not nearly as efficient if performance is important.
1967 and older have"How close" are the early and late A body tailpipes to being the same buying them pre-bent?
To answer your question. Left tailpipe is the same between early and late applications. 1967 and earlier with the transverse fuel tank strap requires a different"How close" are the early and late A body tailpipes to being the same buying them pre-bent?