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Old 12-07-2006, 03:39 PM
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How low do they hang a fox body? I am looking at a pair of BBK long tubes and I want to make sure I will have enough ground clearance. The car is not lowered and there are not any plans to do so.
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Old 12-07-2006, 04:04 PM
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mine has clearance issue's, not bad but worst than the shorties. have to drive slower in speed bumps. plus long tubes are not necssary on a bolt on car only a high horsepower stroker or blown motor
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Old 12-07-2006, 04:08 PM
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I just need to treat it like I would a lowered street truck? I do that anyways. Sounds good to me.
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Old 12-07-2006, 04:10 PM
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I'm going to be putting bbk on mine. I've worked on a couple cars with bbk longtube headers and they don't seem to come down that far.
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Old 12-07-2006, 04:13 PM
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Cool. I just got home for winter break and I get to finally fix my exhaust leak. The headers on it now are FUBARE'd so I figured while I was replacing them, I might as well get what I want.
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Old 12-07-2006, 04:29 PM
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what mods do u have....when i put mine on i lost alot of low end power, gained a little top end but i dont think it was worth it. but now that im going with a 331, glad i got them
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Old 12-07-2006, 04:31 PM
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bone stock right now. Plans include afr's and a KB blower somewhere down the road. I don't want to buy headers twice.
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Old 12-07-2006, 04:32 PM
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Clearance issues depends on what brand you get.... BBK is supposed to be one of the best.
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Old 12-07-2006, 04:45 PM
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might help????
http://www.mustang50magazine.com/tec...618/index.html
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Basically so all the talk about LT's killing your low end is BS.....
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