NSW Corvettes
Technical Tips => Pre 84 => Topic started by: raafrebel on May 20, 2013, 07:22:41 PM
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Does anyone know or recomend anyone who has fitted Hooker headers and side pipes?? Is this a job i could do in my shed?? I do have a hoiste. or do i need to take it to a exhaust person
Dan
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You will never never know
If you don't give it a go
Bfit
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as long as yours is still LHD they should go on easily enough, my c3 didnt have aircon to worry about so all i needed was to raise the front up a bit to get some clearance to slide both headers up from below and they fit ok , i had a helper but with some blocks to rest them on it could be done solo. BUT i did have the startermotor off for other reasons at the time and watch out for the temp sender unit in the head. this was a small block auto as well .
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OOOHHH i just read you have a BB tripower so i presume its a manual , ifso the Z bar will have to come off which isnt hard to do . heres a pic of my 69 , i reckon they look so cool
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Bazzas77, yes i do have a stick shift tri power, and i have a hoist, so from a previous post, i am gona give it a go! Do you have the packing inside yours or just a free run?? I got a fair bit of ther work to do first , but i have the pipes sitting in line waiting to go on and cant wait!!
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well then , the BB was actually easier to do than the SB. I had mine on my 4 poster and it was on the ground ! make sure its central on the ramps ( my starter motor was off on this one as well ) and they slide in from underneath .
When i got it , it had the hooker straight through muffler tube which is a hole about 1 5/8 ? (from memory ) sounded OK (it went over the pits with them !!!) but kinda restrictive so i tried to pull them out but they were stuck so i made new side pipes and put some sweet thunder 2.5 inch (hole-straight through) in them , amazing differance , really made a differance to performance but WAY TO NOISY for the fun police .
So i put these sound reducing cone thingees on the front
(http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w78/Bazzas77/006-6.jpg) (http://s173.photobucket.com/user/Bazzas77/media/006-6.jpg.html)
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i also drilled about a thousand holes in the muffler tube and wrapped it with steel wool and fibreglass packing and forced it all back in the pipe and it sounded pretty good.
i welded a nut(s) to the muffler end cone to bolt the perforated cone to it, i added a spacer between the two cones so its not so restrictive as well
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so to answer your question its too loud (for me anyway)to run open pipes as it hurts my ears after a few minutes :lol:
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Cool. Yea i need to fill the hole as my ears are f#cked from using jack hammers and racing motorcycles. Im looking at a few options from the states, but cant wait! the pipes are BAD ASS!!!!
There is a company called sweet thunder that says it can make me up some inserts for a couple hundred a side
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Yep ,thats what i have , mine are the 2.5 inch inserts but im sure i didnt pay that much !!!
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They are so easy to put on it's not funny, The hardest part is taking the body of :rol: :rol:
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l29/davilynp/nippervette020_zps8dad81a6.jpg)
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Hey you got your new awesome sump on that rat yet 68rat? :cheers:
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waiting for the 2 pickups to come from summit, didn't no wich one to get so i purchased both :thumb:
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roger that :thumb: