That's a good point. The owner already dropped a serious chunk of change just on those carbs alone, makes me wonder why he stuck with manifolds.While I like the manifolds I can’t help but wonder how much more a good set of headers would produce.
If that is for a street driver, the manifold will make just as much power as headers, with none of the down sides (headers have a tendancy to leak, rust out in a few years, and are noisier.)That's a good point. The owner already dropped a serious chunk of change just on those carbs alone, makes me wonder why he stuck with manifolds.
That may have been true for a daly driver thirty years ago but for a project car, a car that gets driven once or twice a week, is not going to have problems. The Hookers on my Fairlane are twenty three years old, no rust no leaks.If that is for a street driver, the manifold will make just as much power as headers, with none of the down sides (headers have a tendancy to leak, rust out in a few years, and are noisier.)
I don't see "noisier" as being a downside, but maybe my neighbors do.If that is for a street driver, the manifold will make just as much power as headers, with none of the down sides (headers have a tendancy to leak, rust out in a few years, and are noisier.)