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Building headers

Posted By: Anonymous

Building headers - 05/08/11 04:50 AM

I would like to give a go at building my own headers so my question is how important is it to have the tubes close to the same length? I have a 2x3 tube chassis frame and have the motor centered and will have a front coil over suspension and rack steering so I have lots of room. I will be using 2 1/8" primaries with 4" collectors.
Posted By: MR_P_BODY

Re: Building headers - 05/08/11 05:01 AM

It really helps to evacuate the cyls... you might want
to go bigger on the collector... if you want PM me
and I can run your spec through my header program
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Building headers - 05/08/11 06:42 AM

What would be the optimum size? This is for a 493 stroker, tunnel ram,2x750 DPs.
Posted By: tubtar

Re: Building headers - 05/08/11 07:16 AM

Hedman has kits for tube cars that are very inexpensive..........Buy the BBC kit and get the flanges elsewhere.
Like here........... http://spdexhaust.com/
That may be the cheapest route and the kits are virtually fool proof.
Pre bent tubes....just assemble , make a few sparks and you're done.
Posted By: MR_P_BODY

Re: Building headers - 05/08/11 01:18 PM

Quote:

What would be the optimum size? This is for a 493 stroker, tunnel ram,2x750 DPs.




RPM dictates the primary length, CI dictates the pri
diameter and collector should be about 16" long...
this is just a general view of the header design
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Building headers - 05/08/11 03:01 PM

Max RPM will be 6200-6500 so I'm guessing around 32"-34" for the primaries. Would this be close Mike?
Posted By: MR_P_BODY

Re: Building headers - 05/08/11 03:12 PM

Quote:

Max RPM will be 6200-6500 so I'm guessing around 32"-34" for the primaries. Would this be close Mike?




PM me and I can run your engine in the program
Posted By: FastmOp

Re: Building headers - 05/09/11 10:32 PM

I built mine with premade stubs and collectors and a box of bends. There not equal length and still picked it up a tenth in the 1/8 over the fenderwell headers I had.
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Building headers - 05/09/11 11:53 PM

Thanks for the input guys.
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