Early A fenderwell headers
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MOPARCODY
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i think i may have removed a little too much when i did mine
Here is a 66 Valiant a member here dun, I will be doing the same to mine VERY SOON :color:
What headers do you have ? He covered the cut out holes after if you look close.
What headers do you have ? He covered the cut out holes after if you look close.
Another picture but with a different style header :glasses7:
Hooker 5208s?
Read the sticky at the top of the page.
Read the sticky at the top of the page.
dibbons
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These are Cyclone headers. When I cut the first fenderwell hole, I had switched the templates by mistake and made the hole a little too big (not sure which side I cut wrong, it was 40 years ago).
hi dodgedude,
i had a "new" (5k miles on it when i got it) 68 barracuda formula S in high school and the plymouth mechanic that i bought it from had put hooker fender well headers on it. chassis headers will add around 25-35 horses to a 340 and fender well headers add more like 50 hp - 340 like to "breath."
i just restored an exact duplicate of the car i had in 1969 - except it doesn't have fender well headers - just under chassis. it's an original S car and i could not bring myself to cut up the factory fender wells. if you're going to race, then you have to max out all the performance mods on the car and that means you have to go the fender well header route. however, if serious racing is not what you're doing, i would seriously reconsider cutting up your fender wells. if you ever sell your car cutting those holes will probably take $2-3k off the sales price.
if you do cut out the fender wells, do it as carefully as you can and save all the metal! you can at least give all that to the next buyer in a box and tell him the car can be put back to stock.
good luck which ever way you go.
i had a "new" (5k miles on it when i got it) 68 barracuda formula S in high school and the plymouth mechanic that i bought it from had put hooker fender well headers on it. chassis headers will add around 25-35 horses to a 340 and fender well headers add more like 50 hp - 340 like to "breath."
i just restored an exact duplicate of the car i had in 1969 - except it doesn't have fender well headers - just under chassis. it's an original S car and i could not bring myself to cut up the factory fender wells. if you're going to race, then you have to max out all the performance mods on the car and that means you have to go the fender well header route. however, if serious racing is not what you're doing, i would seriously reconsider cutting up your fender wells. if you ever sell your car cutting those holes will probably take $2-3k off the sales price.
if you do cut out the fender wells, do it as carefully as you can and save all the metal! you can at least give all that to the next buyer in a box and tell him the car can be put back to stock.
good luck which ever way you go.
ddartdude
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These are from Darrell's (blewbyu) old 65 Valiant that he built. These are Hooker fenderwell headers. He did a real nice job installing them. The car is currently in the For Sale section and is owned by Blewbyoutobad.
They were not cut out to the templates provided by Hooker.
They were not cut out to the templates provided by Hooker.
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