Ok, so I have looked online, and I've read most of the posts on here and haven't heally gotten anywhere. i have an 85 T/A with the 305 running 601 heads, XE268H cam, Weiand stealth intake. it's not the H.O. one, and those are the only mods. I want to run long tubes, but everywhere I look it says that they won't fit a car with a manual trans. Why? Does anyone make ones that will? I plan on running true dual exhaust. I probably won't be running cats, or at least not yet due to budget restrictions. I don't understand the reason for everyone running Y-pipes. So some insite on this would be nice too. Also muffeler recomendations would be nice too. More than likely I'll be running a set of those cheap raptors for a little while, but hope to upgrade. Thought about glass packs but they wouldn't be as cool as they were on my old 75 Camaro. Oh, this is only a temporary engine. Within the next 6 months i hope to have my 383 finished and dropped in.

So I found a set that is within my price range, and are basically what I'm looking for, but want to make sure they will fit. Here is the part number, sorry I for got to copy the link. 68460 They are headman.

 

im running a set of edelbrock AIR tube headers with a Y pipe, is there a certain reason you wanna run long tubes? theyre a PITA with ground clearance and shorties are the best option, your only real option for "duals" is gonna be a pace setter system, both tubes run along the original exhaust routing side by side

 

Ok. this isn't the news that i was hoping for, but things never go as easy as I'd like when it comes to working on a car. I'll look into those.

 

68460s won't clear the clutch slave cylinder without modification.

 

That explains it. I couldn't understand why they would fit an auto, but not a stick. i completely forgot about that. Now can anyone fill me in on the wole Y-pipe thing? I'm guessing it's just because even with duals, you still have to run them down the passenger side. You know I love thses cars, but the engineers at GM really made it a pain to do stuff to them.

 

I have the Hooker Lt's with my 5 speed and they fit just fine. Besides having to grind in some spots for clearancing they work perfectly with a 5 speed.

 

Single exhaust is cheaper and easier to route than dual exhaust, for pretty close to the same performance.

 

yeah that pace setter setup is expensive, my buddy got lucky and bought a GTA with it already installed, and you cant tell the difference between his exhaust and mine

 

when i bought mine there was nothing no motor trans or exhaust. was looking for header and everyone told me that shortys only way to go. so i went cheap went with summits brand.have to say there not bad have had to replace gaskets once but what ever there cheap and not that hard. but bought a dynomax pipping with flowmasters. true duals sounds awsome but when it gets to the rear end only couple opts. mine looks like s**t. it show to run mufflers on top each other and both out drivers side well i wanted out both sides. was able but driver side looks normal but pass. side it at an angle and u can c the muffler. so i think i came up with idea. couple months ill c if itll work. cant find a muffler with dual in and outs that would fix my promblem.

 

I think I've got a couple of weeks of learning ahead of me. I'll probably end up learning like I always do, The hard way. I'm thinking i'll just go buy a set of long tubes at autozone, or somewhere that I can return them when I figure out they don't fit. I'll take a weekend and try to fit them up and figure out all the problems, and then spend a couple of weeks fiuging out how to fix the problems. I'm determined to make this work, and to do it cheap. I'll let you guys know how it works out.