Got my headers built!

[animal]

When I got my coupe, the previous owner had installed headers that went between the engine and frame, with extensions that nearly touched the ground. As I want to DRIVE this thing, I took them off. I bought a header kit from Jeg's and flanges with stubs from Hedman, thinking "How easy can this be?" It wasn't all that easy... I had to heat and re-configure at least half of the tubes. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out; I'll add pipe back to about the front of the rear tires, with a 7" auger muffler on each side to hopefully keep the law at bay. At least now I can start the car and move it in and out of the garage.

 

[kenny c]

Looks good to me. Remember ear plugs.

 

[Yankee Transplant]

looks grate [cl[cl

 

[maverickmk]

Awesome! I bet that thing sounds wicked.

 

[earthman]

We need a foto of the whole car now to see it looks with the new pipes.

 

[MercuryMac]

Yea, what Earthman said!

 

[animal]

I can't get far enough away to get the whole car in a pic. I need to hook up the radiator and a couple other things before I'll be able to move it outside.

 

[DougnDog]

looks good.....[cl

 

[Fender Banger]

Looks Good To Me Also

That is What Rodding is about ! Doing your own Work and Building your own Stuff Not Buying It and Hiring it done ! Keep up The Good Work !

 

[soltz]

very nice, good job [cl
I did zoomies, much easier.

 

[animal]

Hopefully, I'll have the pipes welded to the headers this weekend, and the car outside where I can get some pics.

 

[skull]

cool

they look good.

l had to get the roadster style headers for the 3Osomething and shorten them at a angle on the pipes when they were rewelded back together to clear my tires and frame.

feels good to do it yourself and have it turn out so neat[cl

Later

 

[Bamamav]

Looks like you did a fine job! [cl

 

[animal]

pipes added, and more.

I got the pipes welded to the headers, as well as changing headlights (the old ones didn't put out any light), adding front turn signals (tiny, but at least they're there), taking off the snow tires on the rear and putting on 285/70/15 BFG's, and did a whole bunch of work cleaning up messes the PO made.

 

[donsrods]

You know, those look really good. Nice job.

Don

 

[MercuryMac]

Animal, you're making it your own. I'll bet those pipes sound delightful. My summer daily driver has a small block Dodge and at a dead idle, crawling around a parking lot or show it sounds really cool. Keep on tinkering.

 

[earthman]

There it is! And it's nifty!

 

[animal]

I fabricated a fresh-air vent from the velocity stack to the breather and added a pcv vent to the other valve cover. The PO didn't have either, and the pressure would blow oil out past the dipstick.

 

[hankthebigdog]

looks good man. Keep it up.[cl

 

[animal]

they look good.

l had to get the roadster style headers for the 3Osomething and shorten them at a angle on the pipes when they were rewelded back together to clear my tires and frame.

feels good to do it yourself and have it turn out so neat[cl

Later

I saw those in your build thread....They turned out really nice! [cl