"I have used both, hooker and FPA, I would never buy a set of hookers for a FE mustang again, only issue installing fpa was clutch linkage frame and block mount 1/4" up, spacer plate at frame and modified block mount, all worked great, if your not drag racing,you will not loose that much hp ,and they don't drag on the ground."
Say "Hi" to Stan for me. I want to hear him slam the phone down on you too?
I've noticed that depending on where you are, the height of the ground can vary?
After a while, the pain, any pain becomes normalized.
I never liked the way the stock H pipe hangs low, then curves up. The location of the collectors on the Hookers is similar but a bit more exaggerated. They only appear to be low because of the angle which is downward rather then horizontal or upward like the original h-pipe.
Each of these manufacturers have a slightly different purpose in mind when making these kind of decisions.
There are many purchasers that will make small modifications to those designs. Taking a hammer and dinging a tube here or there for a slight clearancing, etc. The location of collectors on the Hookers lend themselves well to being cut, angled up and rewelded. The design has been made for years and there are hundreds if not thousands of sets sold since probably just after the US Civil War?
The procedure is called "fitting the headers". Remember that term. It's been used before many times. It's doubtful that the term will go obsolete anytime soon?
It can be a necessary procedure on any headers. That's the reality.
If any of this is too abstract and requires too much thought process and effort, don't do any headers, stay in bed, turn out the lights and pull the covers over your head. You are a big boy now and you need to put on your big boy pants and come out in the light.
No where in the real world is anyone going to serve you on a silver platter except maybe your Mama? Certainly header manufacturers won't, never will and never have.
You are modifying the car with headers and there is rarely a true bolt on. It can happen, but rarely.
There is just no other way to say it, installing headers in an FE powered Mustang is one of THE most difficult things anyone can do. If this scares people away...so be it. I don't want to hear, "you guys should have told me first, rather than sugar coat it." This is not for a novice to do.
Jay Bittle still owns a '67 GT500. When he started his header company in the '70s he was quoted as saying "I'm going to make the ultimate GT500 header". What JBA now sells IS NOT THAT HEADER.
Tri-y's on an FE are to make it easier to make them. NOT for performance. You do not need more torque in even a 390.
I still call over there once in a while and ask when they are going to be ready. Still...not yet? Needs more time?
If he ever got that done, he ain't sayin'.
Hey Jay? What's up?