kenylane

please advise on some beautiful sidepipes for my 79 'vette. Any pics would be great. Please let me know the brand and where to get them. THANKS!

MYBAD79

Hookers are by far the best looking sidepipes, but not cheap.... I think it's $800 for the painted version and $1300 for the chrome...

JC Whitney offers sidepipes for $230 but only one of the four inlets is functional....
They also have Patriot sidepipes ... these have only one inlet per side and come with a heat shield....

Hedman Hedders offers a side exhaust header for about $200

carl a

i never understood why people put them on there car,,if they burn the heck outta there legs getting out of the car!, i know they sound good,,and they look good,,,heck i was throwing around the idea of getting them,also to help the engine ''breathe'' better,,just cant get past the idea that every time i take out the car to bloomington or on a long drive,, i know she will get out and cook her leg,,then she will say how she doesnt want to take the vette cuz shell burn her leg!!!! i myself did this in a friends c-3 a few yrs back,,,so if everyone likes hookers,,why dont they manufacture a guard ,that attaches to the pipe,so this doesnt happen?

Sacredgrooves

a guard would be nice

pics of the chrome hooker sidepipes:

LFZ

stock 69 sidepipes..no burns, doesn't get hot, covers look , sound great, and...looks .

1FUNVET

becuase of beauty - that is why I have them, besides I NEVER FORGET to step wide when getting out of the car!!!

oh yeah forget to mention, mine are JC's right price, sound great and look awesome!!!!

427V8

Well except Fiberglass after market covers over custom 3.5" pipes with Auger mufflers.

SteveG75

Jet-Hot coated headers with heat shields from www.cobrastuff.com .

GasketDude

I have the S/S Hooker's Side Pipes $1300+. Car is still in progress, no pics yet.
Not mine but pretty cool. Check out the site.

baja216

Bangkok Dean

JCW side pipes see pictures.

SEE3ER

"Thrush Side Pipes" Jet-Hot Coated, always never burn!

yellow 72

How hard is it to remember to tell a passenger "carefull of the pipe getting out"? I could never understand the fear of burns as the reason not to run sidepipes. Never been burned myself nor a passenger.

grayhook

see my pic's for a 79 with JC Whitney's pipes.

timbo79

1979 with S/S hookers From Summit About 1300 out the door.

JCL baffles

Lotsa Fun

82Vette'ster

Which lengh of JC's are those?

DropTopBigBlock

Gotta vote for Hookers; those four primaries are just dang intimidating.

grayhook

63" one's, only thing i did'nt like about them was the 1 7'8 pipe, if your all stock thay'er fine but if you have 300hp or more i'ed go hooker's or duel's. the small pipes will hole you back some.
i lost a rod bearing in oct. and swaped to a 355 with 400+hp so i removed mine.

68/70Vette

The Whitney sidepipes do look good, they look just like the $1300 Hookers. OK, the Whitney sidepipes are a little bit of a turn-off because their appearance is fake, but maybe there's a good rationale for going with them. For instance, lets say you by the Whitney sidepipes for $230 and then you buy the Hedman Hedders (Part No. 68280) for $179.00. The Hedman Hedders collector will now mate to the single functioning input pipe of the Whitney's. The question now is does this system flow well? If the Whitney "sidpipe's" internal muffler is not restrictive (or can be made non-restrictive ) then it appears you can very likely put together a really good looking sidepipe system for very little money.

PS. The above Hedder part no. is for the headers without the smog tube ports. The part no. with the smog tube ports is different. I think it might be 68281. I've already bought 68280.

68/70Vette

When I had Hookers, no-one ever burnt their leg more than once.