I'm Jason, I recently purchased a 1983 Malibu Wagon 1 owner with 21K original miles. It is equipped with a 3.8 229 V6 and is all original never touched no rust! The factory wheels were not on it so I powder coated them to get me by. I'm building a mild 350hp 358ci SBC to put in it, soon after I will be going with a 700r4 and a rear-end swap. I have a question. Can you run dual exhaust on it with plenty ground clearance or should I run a 3" single? I'm running full length headers and will be lowering the car about 1 1/2 to 2 inches in the future. Next question, my dash didn't come with oil, water, tach, gauges. If I wanted to install factory gauges will there be connections back there or do I need the harness for said gauges? Thank you! I will Post pics later, my files are too big to load on here.
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I am running long tubes with 2 1/2" exhaust on my 84 monte, mine is stock ride height as far as i know.i did swap the front springs from a 4 door caprice,with 15 inch rims an i think i have 6 inches MORE/LESS from the ground to the bottom side of the collector,As for the dash,i am not sure if yours would have the connector or not ,Have you thought about using after market triple gauges?
Welcome from North Alabama.......pics, pics, and pics.........Im running a 2 1/2 exhaust with an pre lawsuit-Iceman trans crossmember with a 1 coil cut on the front springs and Im also running long tube headers with no problems................
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