hedders....anyone?

You may want to search I think that this has been covered about 3 times this week. Now that that has been said.

1 what is your price range.
2 Long or short
3 here are some choices
a JBA
b bassani
c BBK
d MAC
e summit
f flow tech

and many more.

My choice

These are what I have-

Ford Racing stainless $300 and change

I'm running these MAC's, only because I got them cheap off ebay as never used clearance items. They are middle ground I'd say quality wise. I think they are only about $240 new.


Oh, and spark plug access is a little fun on 3,4, and 7. Bolt access a little difficult in those same areas.



If I needed shorties again I'd save my pennies for a while and go Bassani. The quality of them looks really good from the pics I've seen.



Long tubes are a whole other issue as well. I'll be tackling them soon as I try for more power.

Well, if they are designed for your engine in your application they shouldn't be bad to install at all.

It is naturally a lot easier to install headers on an engine sitting on the stand.

I put mine on my engine while before I tossed it in the truck. I had to lower my engine sideways quite a ways then twist it into position as I lowered the rest of the way.

I did have to redo the gasket later on my passenger side header, which is the much much tighter side and it was definitly some work to do. Wheel off, inner wheel well out, you get the idea. No way I was doing it like a car from the topside, but then my headers snake around a bunch being equal length which makes it much tighter to work around.


Yours I'd think would be easy as pie. Just put em on the engine before you toss it back in. You may have to do some prying when you try to get the Y pipe to meet the new headers from under the truck, but it shouldn't be bad at all I'd think. I did it with mine and I have high port heads which really through things off a touch with the effect of higher location and effectively making my engine seem wider. I still did it with some persuasion via prying.

Again, yours should be easy.

Bonzai said:

i see you live in the bay, but in Cali we cant run long tubes, right?

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not technically, I bought my truck with hedman long tubes on it. they sound great, fit great. when come time for smog, I'm sure I won't have an issue finding someone who doesn't care about the visual. If not, I've got some stockers to swap on, no biggie.