In my foolish youth, when I worked for a muffler shop, we had a card system that allowed you to bend up pipes for pretty much anything. I thought they had those types of systems still, just computerized. The head pipe is usually the worse as you have to weld on the flanges. Maybe you could buy head pipes and have the rest made locally to save the shipping costs at least. I don't know about the 318 but some of the Mopar products (particularily the big blocks) had a different manifold on one side if you had factory duals. It angled off differently to make it easier to clear the torsion bars without compromising the radius of the bends. Also some of the performance cars had a balance pipe build into the head pipe( I think again this was big block stuff) but the majority of the cars had a system of isolated pipes. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!
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