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Technical => Misc Tech => Topic started by: HAVI on December 29, 2008, 06:05:56 PM

Title: slip tube headers
Post by: HAVI on December 29, 2008, 06:05:56 PM
Picked up some slip-tube headers for a Fox Stang using a 351C and C4 today for $60.  Anyone have any pros or cons to say about them?
Title: slip tube headers
Post by: Thunder Chicken on December 29, 2008, 07:07:52 PM
I dunno, but I'd guess that if you ever expose it to salt they wouldn't be "slip tube" very long - once a ring of rust got in there they'd probably never come apart.
Title: slip tube headers
Post by: V8Demon on December 29, 2008, 08:01:19 PM
My old Hooker headers were a slip tube....The pipes they went into had a small wedge cut out and I put a clamp on the outside to secure them.  Never rusted solid or anything.
Title: slip tube headers
Post by: HAVI on December 29, 2008, 08:05:46 PM
That point makes alot of sense.  They were basically drag-race only headers.  I got them from a guy who has an 88 Tbird drag car that he got from someone in Boston.  Seemed like a long ways away.  His Cleveland is upwards of 675 hp.  He gave me his times, but I forget off hand.  He's at either Brainerd or Eau Clair raceways every weekend.  Anywho, he set back his engine 3-4" and the headers no longer cleared.