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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:33 am 
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Well Scott is a great guy and he will give you a great price. The only problem I have run into is how my exhaust is routed around my trans and torsion bars, but Scott has seen and worked on my truck enough to have an idea what to do. . .

Do you have down tubes or are you starting from the manifold and going back ?

Scott is a great guy at routing exhaust tubes so he can set you up with a great 2" set that will make that thing roar and make it driveable.

The number of the shop is 925-829-7433 and talk to Scott, he is the owner and he gives good deals. I would suggest just having dump tubes that end at the transmission cross member and then dumping about 5" before the gas tank, my cherry bombs fit pretty titty in that space, and it shouldn't be hard :)

Tell him Austin with the white (now black) LUV sent you !

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:42 am 
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Looks like you will need cat's too.

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Is the law Pre-76 ? Does that include or disclude 76 ?

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In CA. 76 and up still needs smog checks every other year.
Cats were being put on cars in 73.


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to be honest I'm really new to cars so I'll take some pics under the truck and tell me what you think would work best as far as the piping for my exhaust etc. give me a day or two to post them


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Ok then I was lucky to buy a 75 cool. . . for some reason I had some mindfreak about what year they started smogging cars . . . but yes they did start installing cats in 73 !

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Oh I could be off a year too. You don't have to smog your 75, right?


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Negative !

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yeah that's sick, my buddies 75 corvette doesn't need to be smogged and he's thinking of installing a hemi or something really big :)


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Hows about a 21/2" singe exhaust with a cat. and flowmaster (or what ever)and you should pass smog fairly easy with a good tune .Yeah i know a cat. is a bad word to everybody of people but i don't understand why earybody has a problem with them .You can buy the cat. out of one of the parts catalog and save a bunch of coin then have the exhaust system built. And by the way a good cat. will only cost you 2-3HP at full throttle (and how many people drive at WFO?) but helps in the low and mid range and keeps the emission commandos happy.

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that sound's good tj, would changing my 2 barrel carb to a 4 barrel be a pricey and difficult task? I've looked into carbs and it's like 400 :/ I'm willing to spend 1500 bucks on modifing the truck so what would my best investments for performance be? I'm not racing it at the track or anything I just want it to be a beefy truck!!!!


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