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Hey guys, in the middle of collecting parts for my 5.0 swap. Bought a '97 5.0 engine. Upon teardown I found out it has gt40p heads. No big deal, as they flow better than standard gt40's. My question is I have a new set of explorer cast manifolds and the Hedman 88400's. The cast manifolds are Dorman replacements. They are garbage! Pulled them out of the box and one port was cast shut! I few taps with the chisel and it was free, but the ports are tiny, I can hardly get my pinky finger in the ports. The Hedman headers are nice, but we all know they dont clear 2 plugs on the gt40p heads. This is for a daily driver, occasional offroader, so I need as much low end torque as possible. I can port, weld and fab. What should I do; port the cast manifold, or fab the drivers side Hedman header to clear the spark plugs?
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