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I'm finally ready to get my new exhaust done but I'm clueless as to what to get and what price to expect. It's a 1966 Chevy Caprice...

I got some new chrome hugger headers and need to go from them back to the rear wheels (where the exhaust goes over the rear axle). Now what should I buy and expect to pay at a shop? Thanks in advance for the help...

I'd just call some local shops and expect to pay no more than $350, maybe a little less if you buy your own mufflers to suit your preferences. I just had pipes run all the way back on a 63 Ford Galaxie 500 drop top and it was about $350 I think.

Originally posted by SynisterCreator
I'd just call some local shops and expect to pay no more than $350, maybe a little less if you buy your own mufflers to suit your preferences. I just had pipes run all the way back on a 63 Ford Galaxie 500 drop top and it was about $350 I think.

If it's no more than that I'll be ok. Thats about what my exhaust budget is at anyways. Did you have to get two exhaust? Flowmasters?

i am also looking for new exhuast,i called 1 place so far
and they wanted 485.00 for pipes and mufflres that seems
like alot so im still looking. i want to use magnaflow muffs
they sounded good on a 55 chevy 327 i heard yesterday

Originally posted by dotgone
i am also looking for new exhuast,i called 1 place so far
and they wanted 485.00 for pipes and mufflres that seems
like alot so im still looking. i want to use magnaflow muffs
they sounded good on a 55 chevy 327 i heard yesterday

Everything is expensive in Ca. You might try www.summit.com and checck on their exhaust kits.

usually if you can find a guy in a small town and can haul your ride to him, he'll give you the best price and can usually do as good of a job as the big timers. I paid around $350 for dual exhaust at 2 1/2". I need to replace the mufflers though because I told the guy something not to loud at idle or crusing but nice and throaty at full blast, so whats he do? puts on the quietest mufflers the nimrod could find, then almost gernades about $6000 in machine work and parts trying to justify the mufflers and prove to me that they get loud. So the moral of this story i guess is, let the guy plumb your pipes, hand him the mufflers that you really want, but dont let him demonstrate anything to you if his I.Q. matches that of his pipe bender.

Well I've got a SBC 350 in my '66 Caprice so do you think some Flowmaster 40 Series would give me a nice rumble at idle and a throaty rumble at thrust?

yeah flowmasters would do fine, but if you wanna clear the most CFM's through your mufflers at a great price get a set of Mac FlowPaths. unlike the flowmasters, i have noticed at idle and cruising speeds they are realatively quiet, but at full go...... nice. Loud and throaty. If you ever upgrade to a 3" tail pipe set up straight out of the mufflers it sounds like a dragster when you've got it to the wood.