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Originally Posted by hometeam
Yea, I cant claim to know anything about modifying old cars, I do know that with long tubes you always have a clearance issues in one way or another. In my full suspension car I CONSTANTLY dragged my long tubes on anything and everything, in my current stock suspension car the long tubes still get banged around now and again. I just know in f body applications shortys are good for about 8 HP on a stock motor, and long tubes are worth about 20. The bigger you go the more that disparity increases, but I guess in the grand scheme of things 20-30hp difference on a setup isnt much. I think it just goes to the fact that most peoples first modification on a street driven F body is headers, which is a little different than doing ground up builds for resto mod stuff.
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Yeah bolt on late model stuff is a bit different. When a customer comes to us and says he wants his build to dyno around 600HP, the difference between long tubes and shorties isn't going to make or break that goal, but it will cost the customer thousands more in fabrication hours, compared to something we can bolt on and not worry about.
We're going to reach that HP figure, long tubes or not, so we opt to avoid the headache, time and money.