Anyone use these headers on their early a body?

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How much am I gonna hate these on a street car that gets driven on dirt and gravel roads that ain't great
 
Semi fenderwell. I ran them. There used to be a sticky on them. Clearance isn’t bad, installation requires significant butchery of inner fenderwells. I got a way with smaller cuts but you have to pull the engine to get away with that. I had a bunch of pics in the sticky thread.
 
subcom said:
Semi fenderwell. I ran them. There used to be a sticky on them. Clearance isn’t bad, installation requires significant butchery of inner fenderwells. I got a way with smaller cuts but you have to pull the engine to get away with that. I had a bunch of pics in the sticky thread.
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Pull the engine away to make the cuts or shim the engine up in the mounts?
 
I've had more than one 64-65 Barracuda with fenderwell headers. They suck, at best! You can run over a dime laying in the road and they will drag. :BangHead: My current 65 Barracuda will be getting Doug's D450's and I'm gonna cut a notch in the passenger side of the torsion bar crossmember for more exhaust clearance.
 
JDMopar said:
I've had more than one 64-65 Barracuda with fenderwell headers. They suck, at best! You can run over a dime laying in the road and they will drag. :BangHead: My current 65 Barracuda will be getting Doug's D450's and I'm gonna cut a notch in the passenger side of the torsion bar crossmember for more exhaust clearance.
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Because that's what you need to do to make them fit from the factory or is there some bending of the headers going on for better ground clearance?
 
Bodyperson said:
Because that's what you need to do to make them fit from the factory or is there some bending of the headers going on for better ground clearance?
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He's talkin about making the passenger's side of the cross member like the driver's side. There's a notch for the pipe to run under on the driver's side for more ground clearance. They never had duals from the factory.
 
It's because early A bodies never came with dual exhaust, so there was no clearance on the bottom of the passenger side of the torsion bar crossmember. The factory put a clearance notch in the drivers side, because slant 6 and V8 cars both had single exhaust that went down the drivers side only.
 
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