Thread: 78 Trans Am getting some love

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I need some exhaust advice here. Trans am motor is hopped up a bit, exhaust says potato potato potato but I don't remember the details of what I've done besides a larger cam and higher compression pistons. My old boss helped me out with it and he does know his motor stuff , he wasn't just throwing arrows in the dark. The problem was I could never fit headers on it because of my four speed linkage, and It really seems to get choked off when the RPMs come up. I would like to get some RAM air exhaust manifolds, , but I'm wondering how far I need to go with this. They offer standard ones, and oversize which they claim have 15% more flow. Exhaust I was looking at has a built in x pipe and it's two and a half inch mandral bent. What I'm wondering is, it starts getting expensive with that stuff, and I know it's more free flowing but I'm not sure my motor is putting out that much horsepower.Standard ram air manifolds with regular bent exhaust without an x pipe is a fair amount cheaper, Would the mandral bent pipes and the larger manifolds be of any noticeable difference with regular street driving? I know it's kind of an open-ended question, just looking for some experience advice. The exhaust I was looking at is from ram air restorations