Mike Savoie 67 Z

[68camaroz28]

Originally Posted by SMS

This is Chick's Z with Garner and headers.

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.

[juliosz]

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.

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: