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Originally Posted by 68camaroz28
Just wanted to comment that I did have to use a friends tube bender to slightly bend both tubes so they would match perfectly with the original type 68 repro exhaust headers. Was not a lot but again they had to be tweaked, After final fit up approval we had a local shop place the ends of each exhaust tube due to cones being welded on a layer of protection, clear zinc. Matched perfectly and to this day looks clean and fresh looking.
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I'm assuming your headers are the Kustom design. Since mine are the Bill Thomas design, I wonder if your collectors fall closer to the stock pipe location than mine. Once we got a good look we realized even re-bending the head pipe we still would not have a straight shot to the collector. We opted to cut the head pipes back a little further and have Eric G bend us some new pieces which worked-out great. Here's where he's at as of today: