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Originally Posted by Nicks67GTO
That GTO of yours is super sweet. I LOVE the Patina/Steel wheel look. In all seriousness your 64' has a cool factor that high end 100K cars dont have. I also like the exaust splitters out the side. How do think that would look on a 67'? Would it be goofy or cool looking? Ive thought about doing it when i fab my exaust up.
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Thanks for the kind words, my old beater GTO is both admired and loathed depending on the taste of the who's doing the looking at the time.
If you think you'd like the way the splitters look, then go for it. On a '67 they wouldn't be going along with a stock theme like on my car, but that really doesn't mean they wouldn't look really cool either.
PY sells a few different splitters made of stainless steel in both 3" and 2-1/2" sizes as well as some others.
I made these because I was trying to make an aggressive looking interpretation of the original '64 -'65 factory splitters, back when I planned to make the GTO an all-out street car that both handled well and accelerated quickly.
My plans changed a bit when I was bitten by the drag racing bug so I never pursued the handling part of the original plan. The exhaust ended up being a lot louder than I had imagined it would be, so as a street exhaust is was very much over the top in that respect. The race Flowmasters and side-exiting exhaust tips both combined to make one hell of a racket, which worked out fine for a track-only car.
After changing out the Flowmasters for the Race Pro mufflers the car is now a bit more civilized and much better suited for street useage, but it still sounds plenty nasty when you stomp on the throttle.