i want to get a new Y pipe for my setup for exhaust but i cant find one for my setup. i have a 85 camaro with a 350. doesnt matter wut size just give me somethnig to work with . OR a guy at autozone told me i should ditch the y-pipe idea and go with an X-pipe from my headers then out to 2 mufflers before the rear end. any one have x-pipes on their cars or recomemmend them ?

 

The X and Y pipe are two completely different animals. The Y pipe is used to bring the collectors together and breathe down a single tube, whereas the x pipe is used to join duals together and increase the flow of the exhaust and better the scavenging effect of the headers.

If you are going to run a typical dual setup, you will loose pretty much all your ground clearance unless you pay big $$$ to have a shop mandrel bend everything and suck the pipes up WAY close to your floorpan, or if you can weld buy a bunch of premade mandrels and do it yourself. Then I'm sure you could find a decent spot to put the X-pipe.

As far as performance, a dual pipe setup or a free flowing single pipe setup are pretty much equal. IIRC, dual 2.5" pipes flow as well as a single 3.5". Only real difference is going to be in sound. IMO, the dual setup sounds much better and clearer. No muddyness

 

where can i get a Y- pipe for my 85 camaro? i have shorty headers made by hooker. so if i could get a pipe that would come off my headers, i could do the rest of there. that would be great

 

I had my exhaust custom made and fitted at a promuffler shop,
I run 3" Y's off my 3" collectors which expand to roughly 3 1/4"
single pipe all the way to the muffler out the back welded to 3" chrome tips. DAMN thats alot of pipe now that I think about it.
As for finding Y pipe really not too sure...

Also I'd run collectors of the headers.JMO
BTW no cats if wondering.