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85 Engine upgrade (pictorial)
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Hi guys i'm running hedmann headers on my 85 stock,they are long tube 1"5/8,the rest of exhaust are 2"1/2 inox pipes , inox polished center resonator and mufflers.Do you lost bottom end torque with long tube?I feel like engine now breaths better and pulls highier but it seems to me it lost torque at bottom...may be, or am i wrong?
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Hi guys i'm running hedmann headers on my 85 stock,they are long tube 1"5/8,the rest of exhaust are 2"1/2 inox pipes , inox polished center resonator and mufflers.Do you lost bottom end torque with long tube?I feel like engine now breaths better and pulls highier but it seems to me it lost torque at bottom...may be, or am i wrong?
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Hi Corvette Bob, thanks for the interest in the cylinder head situation, in the end Summit took $200 of the cost of the second head and then reimbursed me for the $200 shipping to Australia so they cost me a total of $1700 shipped for CNC Edelbrocks,
as for the header situation my problem is the car has been converted to right hand drive, the steering shaft runs run up next to the header pipe out of no.2 so I cant use off the shelf headers
only option is aussie made headers for the rhd conversion at $850.
as for the header situation my problem is the car has been converted to right hand drive, the steering shaft runs run up next to the header pipe out of no.2 so I cant use off the shelf headers
only option is aussie made headers for the rhd conversion at $850.
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From: Dayton, Ohio
Hi Corvette Bob, thanks for the interest in the cylinder head situation, in the end Summit took $200 of the cost of the second head and then reimbursed me for the $200 shipping to Australia so they cost me a total of $1700 shipped for CNC Edelbrocks,
as for the header situation my problem is the car has been converted to right hand drive, the steering shaft runs run up next to the header pipe out of no.2 so I cant use off the shelf headers
only option is aussie made headers for the rhd conversion at $850.
as for the header situation my problem is the car has been converted to right hand drive, the steering shaft runs run up next to the header pipe out of no.2 so I cant use off the shelf headers
only option is aussie made headers for the rhd conversion at $850.
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From: Dayton, Ohio
WOW! I'd have never thought you could get them there so inexpensively. Is that $300 to your door, or just the cost of shipping?When you said Summit reimbursed $200 for shipping the head, I figured a set of headers would be somewhat similar to ship. Not so much for the weight of the package, but also the size as well. If headmans are the ones you want, then I guess you're all set!
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WOW! I'd have never thought you could get them there so inexpensively. Is that $300 to your door, or just the cost of shipping?When you said Summit reimbursed $200 for shipping the head, I figured a set of headers would be somewhat similar to ship. Not so much for the weight of the package, but also the size as well. If headmans are the ones you want, then I guess you're all set!
better start reading some Hedman header threads
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this is what i run in y 85' Hedman Elite they are 1" 5/8 primary tube ,3"collector,thermal coat,3/8 flange ,primary 14 gauge.402 usd.nothing in the 1"3/4 range for primary tube on summit racing
this is what a guy made recently on the forum modifying a set of hedders,very clean work
this is what a guy made recently on the forum modifying a set of hedders,very clean work
Last edited by tunedport85inject; Mar 4, 2012 at 06:37 AM.
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thanks for the pics tuneport, I like the way the Hedmans on the right side are swept back the way they are, It looks like they might come close to clearing the steering shaft that runs on the right side of the engine on my car 
