Headers
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Trying to remember on mine which cylinder on the passenger side had a removable pipe that slid down in.
My #1 and #8 cyls had slide in tubes. I ran steady 11:40's with them.
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I had those on a 62, you have to trim away some of the inner fender
Car is in the trailer and too lazy to take hood off. I don't believe I had to cut my inner fenders on my 64. I bought the 1 7/8" headers in 1993 I think from somewhere in california.
Depending on the price of the hooker headers and how much you want to spend the wilson headers fit without any cutting.
I had to cut the corner of the inner fenders, one side more then the other.
No way a tube will go over the frame and not have to cut the inner fender well.
Guess I should edit and say " or modify it "
Maybe....
johnnyriviera
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Those are mine, and yes, they do require "massaging" of the inner fender, but not as much as you would think by looking at them. And on some cars there is some interference on the pinch weld at the bottom of the firewall. If clearancing some stuff is a no-go, then any set of Hooker headers won't be for you.
Back in the late 70's all thru the 80's and into the early 90's,if you had anything out of the ordinary(sbc or bbc in an a,f,or x body or sbf or cleveland in a mustang fairlane or torino) or had an engine swap Hooker was the man,most of the other guys didn't offer much selection.Nowadays there seems to be as much or more choices as there was in the 60's-early 70's.I always liked hookers but it was probably mostly because they were available.
johnnyriviera
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I liked the Hooker headers, yes, they require some “fitment” but like 427john said, they were THE header, and were always better than Cyclone and Blackjack.
I’ve heard good things about the Wilson headers, the Doug’s Tri-Y fit good, if a Tri-Y design works well with your combo. I would still be running the Hookers, but needed bigger tubes and had a set custom built.
I’ve heard good things about the Wilson headers, the Doug’s Tri-Y fit good, if a Tri-Y design works well with your combo. I would still be running the Hookers, but needed bigger tubes and had a set custom built.
I'm running them now. Fit is tight but works great. Be careful and measure well and you won't need to take much off.
If I remember correctly Hooker had 2 lines of headers,comp and super comp the comp was a street oriented header with smaller primary tubes and oriented more for fitting in an existing space than for equal length,and the super comp were more typically large tubes with more effort to achieve equal length at the expense easy fitment.The supers were generally considered a race header that would probably require some sort of chassis modification to fit,their catalogs had long lists of footnotes stating modifications that may be needed.I think the tube bending processes and materials used nowadays has allowed tighter radius bends to avoid some of the roundabout routing required early on.
Does anyone know if DQ is OK? Someone said he got sick, Covid.