Need New Headers for my ride.
Sad news is , it's the expensive ones that don't drag themselves along on the ground, and they fit better.
Maybe try a set of shorties.
I put a set of cheap headers on a 73 Duster 340 back in the late seventies. Had to use a BFH on a couple tubes to make them fit, the thin flanges warped and leaked at the head mounting surface, and the driver's side hung down below the tie rods enough to scrape the ground every now and then. But it sure ran a lot better - totally stock except for a spread-bore Holley, the headers were worth three-quarters of a second in the quarter all by themselves.
Many years later, I put a set of cheap headers on my stepson's 73 Duster 340. Like all cheap headers, the driver's side hung down. He knocked a hole in them in two weeks.
So I stuck to 68-70 340 hi-po manifolds when I swapped a 360 into my 67 Barracuda. Drove it that way for 20 years. But in 2012 I took a chance on TTI's reputed quality and replaced the factory manifolds with TTI's. What a difference! Fit was amazing, installation was easy-peazy, everything cleared, they didn't hang down, they didn't rattle and they didn't leak. Plus, they made so much more power than the stock manifolds I had to switch the rear tires to drag radials because I got tired of going sideways whenever I gave it full throttle anywhere in low gear.
PS: I sold the hi-po manifolds for enough money to pay for the headers. (Still had to pay for the TTI X-pipe exhaust, though.)
You have to decide for yourself. Me - I think TTI's are worth the money. (Can't speak to Doug's, as I have not tried them.)
