340 HP's vs headers

moparmat2000 said
Well in another thread similar to this one , and this one i mentioned that i hate headers, but pulled the trigger on these shorties. So i guess i'm gonna eat crow over this one. Maybe these are better made. I will use copper gaskets. Guess i will find out.

The Hedman Tight Tubes are good quality, head flanges are nice and thick I believe 3/8", tubes are pretty thick gauge steel and the welds are nice too. The driver-side fits nicely around power steering stuff, they also come with some nice small-head bolts that use like a 3/8" wrench. IIRC I used the gaskets that came with the headers from Hedman and sprayed them with copper sealant then tightened the header bolts evenly bit-by-bit. NEVER had a leaking issue after initial install and I put 25k hard miles on that 360 until it kicked the bucket (tuning errors, too much detonation). Main downsides were the exhaust routing which it sounds like you got covered, and high underhood temps but that happens with any uncoated headers, unless you got coated ones?