I am going to get the exhaust onto the 1970 Stage 1 and the tailpipe tip is one of those small detail items that bothers me. I am going with a 3" exhaust and would like the exhaust tips to look as close to factory as I can. Is it a 45 degree angle down with a salami cut? Please feel free to post pictures of the exhaust "ends". No shotgun/ straight out ends or those that are dumped.. I am going with full length tailpipes... Thank you
I bought these very tips at the local store when I put the 3" tailpipes on my car. They had them right in stock..
Why 3"? It's not a race car. Put 2.25 pipes on it. They'll look more correct and are larger than the factory
I'd think 2.5" would be enough.. I had 3" on my car and it sucked, huge drone, no room over axle, etc.. TA makes the tailpipes in 2.5 with the correct look, I dont know of any other suppliers that get them right. .
They do make a performance system that is a little larger than factory but still retains the factory look. On the beater, I used a system I bought from the parts place. It was relatively cheap and fit fairly well but it was a factory system
not that this is applicable for George, but I also used a set of N25 tailpipes from TPP for my dads car and had a good experience with the fit/finish for the price. George- putting my son down for a nap and will get you pics of TA’s 2.5” tip with a measurement shortly
Jason- I had this 3" system in the rafters.. The stage already has headers on it.. So why not use it.
Larry- that is what I was looking at... I also had the same tips on your first post on my 69 Stage 4 speed with a Magnaflow exhaust.
Would be hard to replicate in my opinion. The extensions Larry posted look like a good alternative. You can cobble something together with a reducer if you’re not worried about it being perfect.
I took mine to a muffler shop and the guy there does a lot of old classic cars. He knew the 2.25 factory size was correct and knew how they were supposed to be run. He put the stock tips down at 45 degrees in the correct spot. Mufflers and all new pipes was about $300. He put 5 or 6 different mufflers on there and let me hear how they sounded before I selected the ones that sounded best to me. Ignore the oily cardboard which was from a tranny leak I recently fixed.
They were actually not parallel to the ground...they had some back side of the pipe visible from the side..like maybe 5/8in and the top side of the pipe extended past the bumper about the same 5/8....angle would be around 45 if you held the angle parallel to the ground
