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tomsealbeach posted:

How tight is the 3" tubing as it goes through the suspension and half shaft. I recall looking at doing a 3" back to the mufflers and was told that it would be very difficult to get it through the suspension.  What you had made looks great!

It is tight, but not as bad as I was told either.  I had thought about running cv joints just to gain additional room but didn’t need to.  One shop that had built some exhausts for these cars said that I would have to dent the exhaust for clearance.   When my friend mocked up the modified headers he tried to get the collector centered in relation to the suspension.  I spoke with Dennis Quella from Pantera Performance about what the other shop said about denting the tubes for clearance, he mentioned using oval tubing instead.  Stainless Headers offers oval tubing, and oval tubing transitions.  In the end I didn’t have to but was going to if the round tube didn’t fit.  

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