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Re: Early A body headers
[Re: Kern Dog]
#889067
12/31/10 11:45 AM
12/31/10 11:45 AM
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Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 591
Champion City
The Sphinx
OP
mopar
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OP
mopar
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 591
Champion City
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Come on, dude! Who here has EVER said that Mopars were inexpensive? The "buy in" cost of our cars is often the only bargain. I was one of the lucky ones that found a smoking deal. I paid $1700 for a 70 Charger in March 2000. It was a running, driving 318 car with drum brakes and minor rust. Now, $26,000 later, its a pretty decent car. 
LOL, My rust free and complete E-body was a $200 buy in cost. Then again I've been playing with mopars for quite a while.
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Re: Early A body headers
[Re: The Sphinx]
#889068
12/31/10 05:36 PM
12/31/10 05:36 PM
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Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 4,786
Holland MI Ottawa
2boltmain
master
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master
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 4,786
Holland MI Ottawa
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I like the Spitfire headers. Its a shame the maker is criminal. Its also a shame no one else is making a simliar bolt in SpitFire type header at a REASONABLE cost. The original Spitfires were under $200 but one could turn around and sell them for a HUGE profit on Sleaze bay. As much as I admire the TTI's and drool over them I will have to make due with the typical Hedman-Summit-Cyclone cheapies.
Keep old mopars alive.
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Re: Early A body headers
[Re: RapidRobert]
#889071
12/31/10 10:51 PM
12/31/10 10:51 PM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 951
Alliance, Ohio
Valiant_Showoff
super stock
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super stock
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 951
Alliance, Ohio
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I took a set of Spitfires off my 66 Dart and put on a set of Dougs. Both are good headers.
May I ask why you switched over?
If I can jump in here, I switched from Spitfires to Dougs for performance gains. The Spitfires were marginally better than the 340 HP manifolds they replaced.
The best that I can say about the Spitfires, at least when I got them back on 2002 was they were cheap. I paid $120 COD delivered to my door. I spent more having them thermal coated than I did the actual headers. The 340 manifolds I was borrowing from a friend would have been $500 or more to replace.
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Re: Early A body headers
[Re: Valiant_Showoff]
#889075
01/01/11 11:22 AM
01/01/11 11:22 AM
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Joined: May 2004
Posts: 1,380
Back In Iowa
belv2vert66
pro stock
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pro stock
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 1,380
Back In Iowa
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^ I saw a big performance gain when switching from the Spitfires to the Doug's. But essentially nothing when switching from the 340 manifolds to the Spitfires. Only reason I went to the Spitfires in the first place was my buddy needed his manifolds back and I couldn't swing the $ for the good headers back in '02.
Hey Valiant, You probably don't remember but I was the guy looking at your Dougs and asked you a few questions about them while you were in the staging lanes at the Nationals this year.
I bought 2 sets of Spit Fires from Harold. Told him I couldn't do COD and I would send him the money when the headers showed up, I must have been one of the lucky ones. I sold the other set on ebay and did pretty well......
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