I’ll try it again. This **** is why I stopped posting here.
There is not a QUALITY header that will fit a stock chassis A body Chrysler that uses power steering. That is a simple fact. So your premise is wrong. You are trying to compare junk headers that take power steering with headers that actually make power and fit. Simple as that. If you want to compare junk to what the OP posted thats on you.
Define “low hanging”. I spelled it out. When the primary tubes get bigger there is LESS ROOM. So there has to be LESS GROUND CLEARANCE. Doesn’t seem hard to grasp to me. Plus the collectors get bigger so you lose some clearance. Again, it comes back to using junk headers verses a header that fit and works.
To bring it to a point, you can’t compare junk headers to a functional header. That’s what you are trying to do. I don’t compromise on headers any more than I absolutely have to. Plus I hate power steering. My car doesn’t sit like a 4 wheel drive and I’d bet I run a deeper pan and bigger headers than most on here and neither are smashed or dented.
I seriously doubt you’ve seen in person a set of functional headers. I was at the drag strip yesterday and the couple of sets of TTI 1.875 headers I looked at were not impressive. And some consider those expensive. For what they are they are way overpriced. In fact, call TTI and ask them how long their primary tubes are tandem they will tell you they have no idea!! That says they bent up tubes to make them fit the chassis and did ZERO research and development to make that junk header.
