Headers
I contemplated some of 'em.
Though everything I ever had that had a set on it, were a royal pain in my 4th point of contact. Every dog gone time I decide to go wheelin, hotroddin, chickie hunting, dang things start leaking, then run and sound like crap. Had 'em on the '73 FJ40 with the 350 in it, only way exhaust would work, came lose. Had 'em on a '67 impala with a 427, came lose. Had 'em on a '74 corvette, came lose. HMM see a pattern here.
I tried every stinking locking gimick, super bolts, these won't come lose, these gaskets gonna keep the bolts from working out, these washers lock, blah, blah... Everything short of welding the dog gone things straight to the heads. I actually kind of screwed up a head in the FJ when the Header blew a hole and I went to weld it back up. It was right where the pipe come out of the flage that bolted to the hed, needless to say I was 17 and my welding habits was worse than now. No helmet, no goggles, doing the aim, squint, tunr the head, close the eyes and hope ya get it. Well ended up with part of the flange welded to the head. Made motor changing fun when I blew that one up. Where's that grinder???
Yeah they flow awesome, they do what they're intended to, but not something I'd suggest running on a DD. too much maintenance. I'll stick with my ceramic coated, slightly ported manifolds my Brother Steve cleaned up when he built my motor. I'm getting 15-15.5 mpg running 33s and 3.73s. So can't be flowing too bad.
Good luck with 'em though, just promise me you won't infringe on the peace, quiet & tranquility of TB in a month or so on another trip with the headers poppin and cracking! Not that a bunch of hoopin and hollering overzealous tree scraping, rock crunchin, broken part cussing, over excited I made it through off roaders disturb anything!
Get that thing together, you gotta be there saturday or my ass going to have to skip out on a cuple days work to come up and see ya. You said the garage was always open, I got a bedroll I take with me on my Hawg rides, so I can sleep next to your truck and keep 'er company when I come.
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