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I Know Mark at Performance Welding retired, I thought Calvin Elston also closed up shop. Who is best stainless header fabricator on the East coast?

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American Racing Headers built my custom stainless headers when they were on Long Island. They moved to North Carolina about one year ago. Nice headers.

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I have to ask even though I'm pretty sure that I already know the answer, Why Stainless?

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REF unlimited headers in Arizona one of the best fabrication and service

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Agree. Send him your old headers and he can build a new copy of them as well make the modifications you have made over the years using a hammer;)

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I knew where they were on the island, didn't realize they did custom headers or that they moved. I drove by their place but never went in. Medford?

C'mon Billy. How are you going to polish mild steel?!!!

The big sticking point with my AH car right now is disgusted with the mild steel headers I have on there and have 2 nice sets of Stainless but neither fits in its entirety. I HATE rust in any shape or form!!!

This is pretty much a 1-off application and I have no headers to begin with. Arizona is a little far to drive right now. If things drag with this car as they have been might be local to me lol!

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send your mild steel headers to REF and they will duplicate them in Stainless steel.

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Look into "Electroless Nickel Plating"!
You have a P.M..

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This is one of the reasons with having multiple race cars, especially with a few under construction. Not enough hours in a day to get all 100% perfect. I usually concentrate on 1 at a time and headers on AH car are far from where I want them right now. But they work. I may do that in future but I still dont think I would want that design copied. Custom fit and tube sizes reduced. Older technology should sometimes be left in the past. And that car is setup for eliminator and not shoot out. Right now feeding one of the other rides that I shouldve never shelved while looking for a 200 mph fix!

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If you have more than one set of headers that need to be made or other racers that need some flying him in if he still does that maybe the solution. When RJ and i were building a late model CJ we flue him in to San Antonio TX and he built 2 sets of stepped headers in a day and one half. One for us and one with a different tube location because they used a different firing order on another CJ project. The only thing we supplied was a tig welder and he shipped all the needed tubing for the job. Watching Greg work was unbelievable. He even made some jigs for the headers. He talked us out of stainless headers.

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[QUOTE=SSDA Hemi;706204]I knew where they were on the island, didn't realize they did custom headers or that they moved. I drove by their place but never went in. Medford?

They were on Grand Blvd. in Deer Park.

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Do the NASCAR teams build their own headers?

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What makes ACP, Kromer Kraft and Precision Welding headers special.

Does anyone use Kooks Headers?

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they're not

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KromerKraft located in Youngstown, OH can do mild steel with ceramic coating, stainless steel or titanium,....but mild steel + ceramic coating is typically recommended.

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Each have their own formulas for tube diameter, length to each step, Step change in diameter, collector size. Overall design of header 4 into 1 or Tri-Y. These factors will determine how hard they suck exhaust out the port, control reversion pulses not allow them to make it back to the valve stalling flow. Controlling signal getting back to the carb effecting fueling. Build quality placing bends and their radius.

Not saying a custom set will "always" outperform a set of box headers.
Depends on the combination.
A box header can be optimal.
Improvement can be minimal.

Improvement can also be impressive.

There are old threads on Speed Talk with comments by Calvin Elston and others which if your interested in understanding theory behind header design are very informative. Search "Exhausted".

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Give Hippie Fabrication a call, he is in Jacksonville NC. He has beeen doing some awesome work down here. I don't have a phone number handy but someone will chime in.

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Steve Ficacci warned me about this with a story about a prostock dyno session where they tried running an old set of rusty headers ruining the engine.


I usually scrub my headers with a brush and a bucket of soapy water then rinse with a hose. Use a long tapered brush meant for cleaning under refrigerator or heating unit. It looks like and anteater. Lot's of junk will be in the bucket.

Fog your engine good when done for the weekend and plug collectors with rags. Replace your good race plugs with a set you only use for fogging and warm up after sitting a few weeks.