You do have a point. Long tubes are geared more toward high horsepower use and for most street applications, the shorties would work fine. My son who has the long tubes started with a plan he knew would take several years to complete and eventually he is hoping for around 450 horses with the blower . . .BUT, that's still a few months off and he still has some heads to buy first. It's gettin there but it takes time. FYI.. . .the 88 with the shorties pulls like a bull, harder than the 351-C in the 82 and the only mods it has are MSD 6AL, shorties and a Mallory coil, True, it is a 331 and I guess this accounts for a bunch of the torque but probably wouldn't benefit from long tubes until a lot more "stuff" is added.
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1986 four-eyed LX coupe, 358 Cleveland, Tremec TKO600/centerforce clutch, dish cut Probe forged pistons, comp cams hyd.roller cam, .579/.588@224/230, Edel.performer, 670 holley street avenger, CPR custom built long tubes, ported and polished 4bbl heads, manley valves, beehive springs, MSD peo-billet dist/MSD6AL, fluidamper, 5 lug conv. with 17x8 bullits there's more but it's still not finished yet.
Oh, and the oldest boy is turning his 89 GT into a FFR cobra this next summer.
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