Headers Prototype round 2

Well, I spent ALL DAY working on the driver's side yesterday. Start to finish maybe 10 hours total, some chit chat and some breaks in between but I finished the drivers side all in one day.

The bad....one of the tubes rubs!!!!! Looks like I'll have to modify it before I can put it on the road but it'll stay for now. turn all the way to the left and the tire catches one of the tubes. Oh well, I should have done one last test fit before i welded that one but you live and learn.

I'm gunna try to finish the passenger side on wednesday or thursday. It should be easier since I'll just be mimicking the other side except I'll have to fix that tube that rubs on the tire.

Overall it's pretty challenging. You get some weird angles and some tough spots to weld but I actually enjoyed it all. I didn't get frustrated once! haha

"StarchiefsGirl" has photos of the headers. I'll post them later. They look pretty wicked!

cant wait to see the pics. Again, i must admit it is nice that mine is the chevy drivetrain, i just bought the headers, but at the same time you do get a really good sense of acomplishment when you do things like that yourself.

As cool as it is to build your own headers I do with I could buy these off the shelf!

Here are the pics. the bottom weird lookin pipe is the one that rubs a little bit. I guess I'll chop a section out of it and see if I can work around the tire. I'm not too worried about it right now. The picture makes it look like it has a bunch of unnecessary bends in it but they were semi needed. haha





And some cool pics my friend Alison took

I'll take some more pictures of them out of the car so you can see them better. They look pretty cool

lookin good chief!! All you need is some cherry bombs on there and dump them behind the doors!! LOUD AS HELL!!

I'm gunna put some thrush glass packs. Not sure where they will exit.

I got some more work done today. It's pretty tough to replicate the other header. haha but I got one tube done. I'm not entirely satisfied with where the collector sits in relation to the other side but it's close enough.

My friend (Casualty178 on this forum) took some photos of my progress today along with photos of the other header installed. I'm getting closer!

Well I got a little bit of progress. I started fabbing up the 3rd and 4rd tube on the passenger side but one of them rubbed so I'm gunna have to re engineer that side. This is a pain!!! There just isn't enough room!

OK They're done!!!!! No rub, all fully welded. I just need to take them to a machine shop and put the flange on a big belt sander so get the welds flattened out. I just got a new phone so I'll post pics when I figure out how to get them off my phone and on to my compter

hurry up and learn how to post them!!

I know! I spent all morning trying to figure out how to bluetooth it onto my computer. I'll figure something out

hell, i cant even post them normally, and i dont really know what a bluetooth does!! Im only 32 and i maybe i should try and keep up with technology but as soon as i figure one thing out they change it and make a "updated" version!!LOL

I'm pretty good with all this technology but I had no clue what bluetooth was until a few days ago when I got this phone. haha

I tried emailing them to me but i cant figure that out either. WTF!!??

I'll text them to my friend and get her to email them to me

Well I took these with my old phone. Casualty178 has more that were taken on a real camera that I am waiting on him to upload.

They are installed now and they look SWEETTTTT!!!!! One tube on each side is in the way of one of the bolt so I need to hammer it in a little bit to make room for the bolt head.

SHIT! Photobucket is down. Hold on

lookin good. i cant find that pic of how the exaust goes on the chevy frame but just type in 59 chevy impalla and maybe you can find one. It might be on my other computer though, i'll check.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX5yBgjFWc4

There she is with the new headers, Sounds more crisp and a little bit deeper than the 3 tubes. Sounds like that '63 SD on youtube.

Sounds good man. Now get yourself a fan shroud or that things gunna overheat when you're sitting at traffic lights.

BTW, what you got in there for a cam?

I think I'm gunna get a set of electric fans in addition to the stock fan. They're cheaper than a fan shroud. haha

The cam is a Crane cam. I think this is the one I have

http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=CRN-105082&autoview=sku

I paid $200 shipped for mine and t was blasted and painted. Looks brand new. Just got to find one.

If you run electric fans you have to dump the generator. Won't keep up.

Damn. We'll I'll keep an eye out.