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If you are doing a street machine no problem, but if you want a restoration then you have to buy the right parts. I have had quite a few big block A-Body's with hacked exhaust systems, no thanks!
The funny thing about science is that if you change one miniscule parameter you change the entire outcome to the way you want it.