How much damage is sustained when installing factory side exhaust on a '67 small block that wasn't born with the side exhaust option, and is the procedure reversible to preserve top flight status at future meets?
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The sections you cut out of the lower fender panels behind the front wheel openings will have to be re-installed - 'glass and paint work to return to the original configuration. -
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The previous post assumes you've just bent the rocker molding support brackets back out of the way, not cut them off.Comment
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P.S.
Rather than deleting your previous post and leaving all our responses "hanging in cyberspace" you could have easily just asked this same question within that thread. There's no law against it.
PatrickVice-Chairman (West), Michigan Chapter NCRS
71 "deer modified" coupe
72 5-Star Bowtie / Duntov coupe. https://www.flickr.com/photos/124695...57649252735124
2008 coupe
Available stickers: Engine suffix code, exhaust tips & mufflers, shocks, AIR diverter valve broadcast code.Comment
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you have to either fill the original exhaust outlet holes in your rear valence panel or purchase/primier/paint a replacement for side exhaust AND you're in for side exhaust vs. standard car rocker panels.
I won't call it a 'monumental' job, but it's not going to be cheap when you consider the cost of the side exhaust system + body modifications + additional parts & the body/paint work...Comment
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one thing i have never seen posted about side exhaust is the smell of exhaust you wear. especially when started in the garage. worse on a convertable. i know as i speak as i now at this moment reak.(hey it rhymes!) i was just working on the last details on my car and realized that if the exhaust exited out the rear you would incure a lot less smell, call it the snowmobile syndrome if you will. do you guys ever notice the smell? or do your spouses complain about it? billComment
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You're right, Bill; side exhausts stink a lot worse when you start the can indoors. My garage is attached to the house, and the 'aroma effect' is instantaneous all over the house. I have two other cars parked in the same garage, and there's no similar odor.Comment
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does not thrill the wife. i had a 66 427 when i met her she was 19 then. now 19 years and 3 kids not so understanding,billComment
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Know exactly what you mean, Bill. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.Comment
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Sure...it stinks...but after a weekend's wrenching I love the smell of side exhaust...smells like victory!Comment
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takes me about 5 rips back and forth in the drive way on a nice summer night before i can bring myself to put it in the garage for the night,billComment
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Ah,I love the smell of side exhaust in the morning!Comment
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been there-- done that - deduction for side pipes on car that did not come with them is quite a lot.
deduction for incorrect exhaust system ,. deduction for incorrect rocker panels. deduction for --- ETC eTC
It appears to me that this and the battery deduction is blown way out of proportion and the penalty is both considerable and unresonable.
deductions go on and on/ --Net result is that instead of trying to get a top flight of 94 out of 100 , you are trying to get a top flight of 94 out of about 96 or 97. This is quite difficult to do but not impossible.
The stand we have come up with is that it is acceptable for us to achieve a second flight only and keep the side pipes because they are so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No going back. Car looks better with them and probably has a better resale value.
My current opinion that's allComment
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