Alex in Germany

If I were to install sidepipes on a car that didn't have them when it left the factory, is there anything I would have to change that would be hard to correct later to make it correct again?
Thanks,
Alex :chevy

Brass

Alex,

It would depend how you want to go about it. If you intend to install factory correct sidepipes on a mid-year to be later entered in a show (such as NCRS), you will be facing one of the more challenging installations which is not easily changed back. Sidepipe cars have a lot of subtle differences to undercar exhaust cars, and there are some physical changes to the rocker panel areas (ie needing a saw) that are not easily changed back.
I don't know about the TUV, but the MFK inspections here in Switzerland forbid authentic functioning sidepipes. I'd check into that if I were you.

3X2-427

The modification necessary to correctly replicate a Mid Year Sidepipe installation can not be reversed in an undetectable fashion. The rocker panel hanger brackets must be removed, the fiberglass cut and the ground strap holes welded and redrilled to the root diameter of the ground strap bolts thread. All of this is relatively easy to do but almost impossible to reverse. The fiberglass modification, ( to restore to undercar exhaust), would be detectable from the underside by anyone knowledgeable enough to look underneath

Bryan Lee

Alex, you and I are in the same situation. My 67 bb convert is a non s/p car. I have a set of NOS sidepipes, but am not sure I'll put them on. The rocker panel brackets that hang down don't have to be cut, they can be bent back.

If you have an assembly manual, there are pictures and dimensions of the pieces that have to be cut. I just hate to cut on my car. Not an easy decision.

bl :smash:

Alex in Germany

Thanks for the inputs, but does the fiberglass have to be cut, or can you leave it and everyone will know it's not original but can be easily reversed?
Thanks,
Alex :chevy

3X2-427

Alex:
The fiberglass will interfere with both the covers and the pipes themselves. You're going to have to do it right or not at all, why would you want to do it any other way ? :jester

Mac

Hey, Alex, your middle name wouldn't be Bubba, would it? :jester

Brass

C'mon Mac, cantcha read? His middle name is "in"
:D

Seriously Alex, jer's right. Tough job to do right, impossible to retro.



[Modified by Brass, 7:53 PM 10/15/2001]