anyone using these headers have a good pic of cylinder #7 tube? it is routed over the steering colume. i'd like to use this header,but looks like I may have a issue with clearance with the colume tube. the headers are designed for standard motor mount and I use a solid mount and an IDIDIT colume,which looks like it will cause clearance issues. anyone with a good pic please post it up if you have time. thanks

If it were a stock column I'd say trim the outer tube of the column til it's nearly flush with the firewall and reposition /re-mount whatever spacers, column bearing, etc you have. May be possible with the IDIDIT column? Not a column shift, right?

floor shift. I currently have the tti 1 7/8 header and #7 tube is up against the colume at the bend. the husler would have to make quit a bend up to go over the colume. it would be alittle easier to go under colume.

If you go with the Hustlers I would be interested in the TTI's

I do have another guy interested also. send me a pm so I remember. thanks

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thanks for the pic Justin. looks like you engine sits quite abit higher than mine. what motor mounts do you have? judging by your pic i'm gonna have a problem getting that tube to clear the colume.

I have stock replacement mounts.

Is there going to be that much of a difference between the 2 makes of headers? I know when i had my engine on a dyno going from TTI step ups to a 1 7/8" header and swapping the 750hp for a 830hp went from 537hp/540tq to 550hp/550tq

the only diff. I have is the solid motor mounts and looking at the picks they set the engine 1/2-1" lower.

some have said their worth up to 30hp over the tti. i'v also been told good for a 10th.

The Hedman's main advantage is the straighter section of pipe coming off the flange, doesn't have the compromise of having to install fit easily into the oem engine compartment. It makes more difference than you may otherwise think.

Nascar header expert told me a few years back the Dodge cup motors were making more HP than the chevies and fords on the dyno but when they made headers to fit the chassis (mopar had a slightly differnt port spacing configuration)the additional/tighter bend radius caused the peak hp to drop considereably.

I saw about the 30hp difference, what heads were they and what RpM and cube was that? I could see that if you had a fairly big (slower velocity) port where it needed the straighter tube to get it flowing, likewise a cam with maybe comparatively too much duration/overlap might have a harder time in the upper rangers with the tighter TTI's. I know TTI only recently upped the collector to 3 1/2", 3" is really small for any 400" motor above about 4500 rpm, by capping the torque peak RPM you by default also lower the hp trajectory compared to the optimum sized collector.

Does anyone have a picture of uninstalled hedmans?

there's a pic in the part/tools/trailers section.