Header selection budget
I have some recent insight to this. I was given a set of hooker headers with the purchase of my car. Here's some insight on them from a new guy to the Mopar world.
1- installing them by yourself with the motor in the car sucked- especially if you never have done it before. (with your motor being out it will be easier).
2- steering linkage goes through the tubes on the driver side and the times hang low. I've scraped them probably 5 or so times.
3- they work with a 340 and power steering. I likey power steering so I'm not taking it off.
4- get Allen head bolts and make your life easy for bolting them up. I ordered Allen bolts but was shipped non Allen bolts. Was to impatient to wait for the correct set to be reshipped and the non Allen bolts are a pain to install on the front and rear bolt holes.
5- watch your spark plug wires and boots. The driver's side wires/boots will hit the headers. I wrapped mine and installed boot shields. Wrap your headers before installing them. I wish I would have known this and would have been able to make it look so much nicer. I'll redo them when I pull the engine apart to install my cams .
6- they sound great with a 2.5 exhaust and flowmaster originsl 40s (also free with purchase of my car).
Quick takes- If I were buying headers I would look for ones that didn't hang as low if I could. If I had a budget and the budget didn't allow for more expensive ones that didn't hang low I'd buy these again and would not be upset with my purchase.
I have some recent insight to this. I was given a set of hooker headers with the purchase of my car. Here's some insight on them from a new guy to the Mopar world.
1- installing them by yourself with the motor in the car sucked- especially if you never have done it before. (with your motor being out it will be easier).
2- steering linkage goes through the tubes on the driver side and the times hang low. I've scraped them probably 5 or so times.
3- they work with a 340 and power steering. I likey power steering so I'm not taking it off.
4- get Allen head bolts and make your life easy for bolting them up. I ordered Allen bolts but was shipped non Allen bolts. Was to impatient to wait for the correct set to be reshipped and the non Allen bolts are a pain to install on the front and rear bolt holes.
5- watch your spark plug wires and boots. The driver's side wires/boots will hit the headers. I wrapped mine and installed boot shields. Wrap your headers before installing them. I wish I would have known this and would have been able to make it look so much nicer. I'll redo them when I pull the engine apart to install my cams .
6- they sound great with a 2.5 exhaust and flowmaster originsl 40s (also free with purchase of my car).
Quick takes- If I were buying headers I would look for ones that didn't hang as low if I could. If I had a budget and the budget didn't allow for more expensive ones that didn't hang low I'd buy these again and would not be upset with my purchase.
