Well, to keep this post from becoming a novel I'll make a long story short: I have a y-pipe on my car now, and a regular 3rd gen exhaust. The problem with that is the location of my subframes interfere with the y-pipe. So the pipe is crushed.. a lot. And the flow restriction is holding the car back badly.

Now, here's my only feasible and cost effictive idea.. I was thinking of just running sidepipes off the headers. Not gaudy. I'm not even doing it for looks or for show. I just don't want my flow restricted and I'm pretty sure that's the easiest and most cost effective route for me at the time.

Now, here are my questions.. If anyone here is familiar with the sidepipe setup, what are common problems and mishaps I should anticipate?

Will a sidepipe setup off an older vette fit? Or better yet do you know where I can get one brand spankin new?

And I think that's it.

Sorry about the longwindedness on my first post, but hey I need to know. And any help will be gladly appreciated.

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sea...der=descending

 

Thanks. I'm mostly just interested in where I can start looking for a setup that'll fit or if the corvette setup would fit on a Firebird.. I didn't really see that in there.

 

Alright.. slowly sorting through this mass of crap, so I should be alright finding the answers. Thanks again.

 

heres one ive seen .

 

I had these on my vette and I took them off.
They created ground clearance issues and, if you had shorts on during the summer, would easily burn your leg when you went to get out.

I'm not sure about how well they would work on a Firebird.

Just my 2 cents.

Hope this helps.

 

I feel kinda iffy about those in the pic, but if it's the easiest way to get it done, I might just have to do it.

I'm trying to find a setup that isn't so bulky on the sides. I'm gonna throw it up on a lift tonight and do some measuring. Maybe I can get something to run on the side, but underneath the car and then just the tips stick out on the side. My car is such a pain. *sigh*

 

Check out mine... I got a pic and sound clip of mine here:

Air_Adam's Side Exhaust

 

I like that! From what I can see it's discrete. Now do you just have pipes running off the headers? Or long tube headers? Or an easier question, how exactly did you run that and where did you get the parts!

 

Actually, I bought all the parts from just a regular parts store. I just have the muffler (Cherry Bomb Turbo) where the cat was, under the passenger seat, and a long turndown from a parts store behind it. Can do the same for the other side.

I'm going to have basically the same system custom-made for me sometime this summer so I can use my shorty headers too. Right now its just got stock manifolds.

BTW - a CB Turbo is a muffler, not a glasspack.

 

Would this work?:

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...N=120%20305315

Seems good for the people who aren't too swell at fabricating (read: lazy) and a relatively easy fix.

 

Air-Adam:

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet,
but, what size cam are you running?

Reason I'm asking is, your exhaust sounds exactly like mine, only
I have no clue what type,size,model my cam is.DUECE

 

Stock size