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The 340 a-body headpipes are some of the most crital fitting headpipes to manufacture and to be consistant from one car to the next.This was a nightmare for the vendors that originally built these pipes for Chrysler as some of your pictured samples demonstrate with the nos parts. Issues included starter , pitman arm and torsion bar clearance....



My high school shop teacher had a muffler bender on loan for one summer. I had never bent pipe before in my life. I bought some 2.5 sticks and gave it a shot on my 68 340 barracuda. What was I thinking!!

Started with the passenger side (easier). Took me days and got an "ok" fit. After that I just said forget about that driver side headpipe. No way I was going to pull that off in 2.5". So 12 years later... My car still has full 2.5 pipe on the passenger side and factory 2" and less pipe on the driver side.

I have a "special" alignment to compensate for the pulling more on one side to the next.

Kidding aside, it's got to be tough cramming 2 lbs of c#!p into a 1 lbs bag.