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I’ll never forget being at some Mopar drag event when a 383 powered yellow Road Runner drove past me. The ground literally shook, and I could feel my organs resonate with the exhaust pulses. As a teen I was forever changed by that. Haha!

 

Ha, there’s nothing like a tight centerline, high compression and 500” of cid.

 

Dan I’m going to try and get ahold of one of my racing buddies from thirty years ago and see what he has for a sbm. He ran is Dart on the mild side for quite a few years before he built a new 340 for it. There’s a decent chance that he would have a few speed parts for the small block. He used different carbs and intakes and ran the hemi grind cam for years. His wife ran an early valiant with a small block so there’s a good chance he will some parts. I’ll need to do some digging to find his number but I should be able to find it. Him and his wife are the only small block racers I’ve ever known. lol

 

Thanks @oldiron 440
Dan

 

A couple of 'exhaust' stories, but first a bit of background info. From about 1977 through about 2,000, I sold a lot of used Mopar parts. I bought the high performance cars, resold them, or parted them out & junked the carc*** before I bought the ground out in the country. there I had 13 cars and trucks on hand. That property was about 3/4 mile off the local blacktop road.

One of my regular customers had the idea that a proper exhaust system was to cut the ends off 4" diameter drive shafts, and weld the tubes to what exhaust ever came off the motor to about the trans bell. No mufflers, just the 4" driveshaft tubes. Those dual driveshaft tubes brought a whole new definition to what loud meant, I knew when he was on his way to my place 2 miles before he got there! The guy did that the entire time I knew him, probably 20 years or more, he never got a ticket!
The short version of the other story, I built a 70 Road Runner with a radical small block Mopar, big cam, headers, Thrush header mufflers, nothing behind them. The officer that pulled me over was actually pretty nice, considering the cir***stances. The officer told me my mufflers were illegal. Those header mufflers were only about 2 hours old, I'd bought them and installed them earlier that day. I asked the officer how the new mufflers I had just bought could be illegal, and showed him the receipt. He actually got down on his hands and knees to look at the mufflers that still had shiny pipes and paint on them. His suggestion was that I add pipes back to extend the exhaust back the rear end, then he let me go. I added the pipes behind the header mufflers, it did reduce the noise level a lot, but it still was not quite.

 

Gene Gotta love loud pipes.
I was going to work on the car today but woke up to 4 inches plus snow and a nasty head and chest cold. Don’t think grinding, welding, painting would help my cold clear up.
Dan

 

How do you know? Did you try it?

 

I’ve been lucky over the years to not get head and chest colds but I’ve had a flue that literally tried to kill me. Take care of yourself and then hit it hard.