Hi,
I want to put "side pipes" on my 70 SS. I think it will look savage :eek: and would also be extremely unique. :D I am looking for something similar to the C3 Corvettes or '66 Cobra kits have.

Does any one have any INFO on where to get them?
Dealer?
Manufacturer?
or EVEN an extra pair?

Any information would be greatly appreciated! graemlins/hurray.gif

Thanks,
Franchise

I love the idea!! Dads 67 had them installed when it was new. The original owner had the dealer install them before he picked it up.

I would say look in Corvette resto books. Get the proper length and have your local exhaust shop make the pipes to connect them. Prepare to fabricate mounts.

Maybe check a Summitt or Jegs catalog also. I know I've seen them somewehere.

OK. Thanks for the support and info.

I will look.

Summit has kits

Post pics when its done

Thanks for the info.

Hopefully I will get done and I will be able to post them by spring.........

I remember seeing them in J.C. Whitney.

Cool, thanks.

The c-3 corvette pipes won't fit due to the contour of the top of the pipe sheild.

The 63-67 Corvette ones would probably work pretty easily.

I'm pretty sure the Baldwin Motion cars had side pipes. If so, you might check around for BW websites/chat rooms (not sure they exist) and maybe they could help with locating parts. The Supercar guys on the Yenko site might be able to help, too.

Someone here ought to have a pic or two of a '70 BW car to check out.

Good luck!

Andy

Man they look ugly on a Chevelle
http://www.chevelles.com/classifieds/photoads/castelletti/side.jpg

Check this out:

http://www.chevelles.com/classifieds/photoads/castelletti/

You either like BW paint, or you don't - but the side pipes are there.

http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/wuerg/vomit-smiley-008.gif

Agreed.

Perhaps the worst performing exhaust system you can put on your car.

Sorry, but that is FUGLY!

If I am going to chance burning a leg exiting any type of vehicle it would only be on a harley or a custom chopper of some sort....well, perhaps on BB headers on a sanger flat bottom, too but thats it. I think it would get annoying, would be extra metal to have to polish....not worth the troubles, IMO.

I saw a 70-72, can't remember as it was quite a while ago, car was black with sidepipes under chrome heat shields, personally i thought it looked awsome.

I say go for it.

I agree they don't look too hot on the car in that link, but on the right car they look great.

Thanks for the graemlins/thumbsup.gif and the graemlins/sad.gif
I appreciate both sides.

After seeing that horrible picture posted I would say graemlins/angry.gif , so I can understand that, but I think if it where done right, it would be the baddest looking b#tch on the block. So what it is more to polish...does that mean that you are going to trade in your chrome bumpers, or try to locate the chevelle that has the least amount of chrome on it even though you want a specific year? Probably not.

As for all your help, I only found like 2 inch ones. I was kind of looking to go 3", very similar to a Kit-Cobra. I am still looking, but am contemplating doing it myself.

Keep the opinions and advice flowing...I thank you all for it.
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They are an idea whose time has gone (thankfully).

They didn't even look good when those cars were brand new, and high-school kids would put them on thinking it would make them look like a Vette somehow. They did it to Plymouth Furys too; looked just as bad. They haven't gotten any less hilljack high-school looking in the 35 years since IMO.

They make a car look like the whole car came from JC Whitney.... if you get my drift.

If I bought a car and it had them, I would pay money (ALOT of it if necessary) to get rid of them.

And not only all that, I don't care for them very much.

Originally posted by RB69SS396Conv:
They are an idea whose time has gone (thankfully).

They didn't even look good when those cars were brand new, and high-school kids would put them on thinking it would make them look like a Vette somehow. They did it to Plymouth Furys too; looked just as bad. They haven't gotten any less hilljack high-school looking in the 35 years since IMO.

They make a car look like the whole car came from JC Whitney.... if you get my drift.

If I bought a car and it had them, I would pay money (ALOT of it if necessary) to get rid of them.

And not only all that, I don't care for them very much. I could'nt have said it any better only thing I'd add...

If your gonna put those on then you'd just soon add sky-high air shocks and back tires that stick out with HUGE white letters as well.

Lakers on a chopped and channeled '50 Merc: OK; Chevelle? Nah.

dat der iz da look!!!!! Iz dat ur kar? Looking like Starskey and Hutch been hanging with Funk Master Flash. Somebody done pipmed that ride!!!!!!!!! I say get them pipes and some 22" rims, the kind with da spinners. Dont stop there. Stickers, and lots of'em.

I remember seeing a '66 Olds 442 back in the sixties in my neighborhood. It had 4 zoomies per side behind the front wheels, plus Hurst wheels I think, and redlines. It looked like Hot Wheels. I couldn't have been around when it was started because then I would've known whether they were real or fake.

When I was in High School there was a clean '71 Placer Gold Malibu coupe with a 350. Next thing you know it has big n little Cragar SS wheels, followed by large 4-into-1 Doug Thorley chrome side dumps. Maybe it's just me, but I would just rather have a clean '70 SS with a better shifter, headers; and the pipes would come out the rear with rectangular tips.

It's easy to get tacky when you're talking sidepipes. They're so 'bolt on'.
Now lakepipes on an early sixties or older car...

Ever seen a pair of Hooker sidemount headers on a Corvette? They made them for Novas,Chevelles,and maybe even Camaros. I had a pair of them on my 69 Motion Performance 69 Nova w/L72,,totally killer.
I've often wondered what a pair of 4" diameter polished stainless sidepipes would look like on my car. Funny,I've never heard anyone tell me they didn't like the sidemount headers/sidepipes on Cobras. We're not talking about Thrush lookalikes here,but quality sidepipes.

The same people that flame the idea are sometimes the same ones that ooh & aah over Cragar SS wheels. Talk about overdone and tacky,, :rolleyes: :D :D :D

I know a lot of people like the BM cars, I always thought most of the BM Chevelles were plain ugly. The only reason they didn't put foxtails on the antenna from the factory was that those Chevelles had an window antenna! :D UGH! No offense, jmho.

Olli

A 60's or 70's Corvette or an AC Cobra look Cool as can be with their sidepipes most anything else is just plain funky!

I think the classic "chrome side pipe" was a horrible fad that came and went..... a long time ago!! NOW on the flip side, i have seen some custom sidepipes on a few pro touring style cars recently that looked great but im sure they were custom and they sure weren't chrome. I believe they were a dull silver or the color of the car. and the pipes them selves werent hardly visible behind the trick covers that were over top them. If i run across the pictures ill post where i saw them.

yea dont do it they look like h-ll,so do L-pipes exiting in front of the rear wheels,cars for sidepipes are as follows

AC COBRA
EARLY CORVETTES
49 MERCS
OLD PRE 80S VANS
JEEPS
CAN AM CAMARO,MUSTANG,COUGAR

BUT,not on a chevelle------it just dont go--67rat

Thanks for the feedback.

I will post if anything happens.

That is one groovy looking Chevelle.

Hooker still sells them. I just got a pair...and I'm considering them for my '67 wagon. I mocked them up and found they weren't long enough to have the proper proportion. So, I'm planning on having polished stainless extensions made to connect with the rest of the sidepipe. I'll mount it so it runs the proper length of the rocker to look "right" to me.

The Hooker pipes are 4-inch diameter. They come with the 'Dummy' 4-into-one collector, but this is the portion of the kit I'll be replacing with a "true" connection to my headers in stainless.

P/N 21063

Check em' out.

SP~

Thanks for the info... I will check them out.

Scotch... Are you putting the side pipes on your wagon???

Scotch,

Where did you order them from?
I can't seem to find the part on the Holly, lovemy hooker, website.

Franchise...I'm going to mock them up. It's an option I'm considering as I must now replace my Hedman shorty headers. The 'new' 383 has AFR 215s w/ angle plugs. Plug access requires header removal. No good.

So, I can get angle plug headers, but the primaries will drop quite far down and the wagon is pretty low. I don't want to have exhaust clearance issues and I will road race this car.

So, in considering all my possibilities, I thought about how it had been done in the past. Drag racers in the '60s went to fenderwell headers, and road racers (Vette/Cobra etc.) went to side pipes with fenderwell-type headers. So, I'm thinking I might modify a set of fenderwell headers to connect into a polished stainless steel transition, which could take advantage of some modern innovations (like ovate tubing), and extend this transition into the chromed Hooker sidepipe.

If I put the production Hooker piece on the side of the car where I liked it best for fit, clearance, style, etc., I could then have the stainless transition fabricated to a proper length to fit it. Since this stainless would be polished, it would look okay going into the chrome.

I might be able to do this and have it look cool.

If it looks stupid it won't happen.

I'm doing the wagon up with a '60s road racer flair.

So, yes...I'm thinking about it.

S~

Here's the link:

http://www.holley.com/HiOctn/ProdLine/Products/ES/ESHHA/Sidemnt.html

S~

Scotch,

Thanks. Very cool! PM me and let me know what you are doing with them...mod-wise.

Franchise