Author Topic: Headers on my 383 'vette! (Read 999 times)

Steve · « **on:** June 16, 2005, 06:39:10 PM »

Installed the headers last night. Need to finish exhaust, nitrous, charge AC, install TC lock up kit, then off to the body shop!

SmokinSS · « **Reply #1 on:** June 16, 2005, 07:15:02 PM »

The new engine looks great Steve.

I don't know how it is in AZ but here it is and unwritten law with a new stroker motor you have to drive it 3 days on open headers.

Robert

Steve · « **Reply #2 on:** June 16, 2005, 07:59:17 PM »

Lol Robert, thanks. I will have it on open headers for today and onthe way to the exhaust tomorrow.....hope I"m not breakin any lasw.

NUKE · « **Reply #3 on:** June 16, 2005, 08:14:32 PM »

Steve, looking good. I need to come over and check that out.

AWMac · « **Reply #4 on:** June 16, 2005, 08:42:01 PM »

Sweet Steve!!!

I dropped an LT1 into a '69 Camero....It's the reason I'm going blind now....

Torque Rules!!!

Steve · « **Reply #5 on:** June 17, 2005, 02:16:49 AM »

Thanks Mac, you still have the camaro?

Thanks Nuke.. it goes to the exhaust shop tomorrow. 2 1/2" all the way back to the mufflers, exhaust cut outs and no cats!

rpm · « **Reply #6 on:** June 17, 2005, 02:22:39 AM »

A MOPAR powered Vette? Won't the GM gods strike you dead or place a plague upon your family?

Steve · « **Reply #7 on:** June 17, 2005, 02:58:50 AM »

There is nothing in my 'vette that has anything to do w/ Mopar.

beet1e · « **Reply #8 on:** June 17, 2005, 03:06:28 AM »

Steve - what are "headers"? I'm thinking that the British word, along with many others to do with cars, is different.

And... what will be the fuel consumption of that thing? Will it be any more than 8mpg? I've just been hearing about global warming... and America's refusal to comply with the Kyoto agreement. But hey, America needs cars with 383 cu in engines, and could not survive without them!

Roscoroo · « **Reply #9 on:** June 17, 2005, 03:14:22 AM »

Look good .

i wouldnt bother w/ the cut outs .. a good free flowing set of mufflers will be fine
dynomax,flowmasters , the hooker aero chambers are good but alittle large for stuffin in a vette.
edelbrock also makes a straight thru packed muffler that doesnt sound too bad.

be shure they use the thick flanges and flair n weld to the pipe .

(i still do a custom header builds and a few exhaust jobs )

oboe · « **Reply #10 on:** June 17, 2005, 06:18:44 AM »

I also thought a 383 V8 was a Chrysler product. Seems to me I worked with a guy in high school who had a Dodge Fury w/ a 383 in it.

Beetle, its one guy, not all of America. Lots of guys here have a passion here for muscle cars, which are usually on the older side. Buts its a tiny fraction of the driving public. Should we no longer restore and fly WWII aircraft because their engines aren't as efficient as modern engines?

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #11 on:** June 17, 2005, 06:37:19 AM »

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PALM BEACH, Fla., - March 21, 2005 – The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company will auction a 450 horse power small block Chevy 383 V8 donated by the Engine Factory during the 3rd Annual Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Collector Car Auction scheduled from March 31, 2005 – April 3, 2005.

lazs2 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 17, 2005, 08:37:18 AM »

well put oboe...

steve... are those hooker block huggers? I had to put those same ones on the Healey last time and still had to cut and weld the crap outta em to get em to work.

lazs

beet1e · « **Reply #13 on:** June 17, 2005, 09:56:19 AM »

oboe - fine. I'll just wait for the gas price whine thread to start!

RightF00T · « **Reply #14 on:** June 17, 2005, 11:06:56 AM »

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