RE: TRI-Y Headers....VS. Hooker Heades

["Widiker, John D" <john.widiker@xxxxxxx>]

See my previous rantings on Jet Hot, it's craptastic!!!!

~John

-----Original Message-----
From: biljoh@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:biljoh@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:40 PM
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: TRI-Y Headers....VS. Hooker Heades



  I am going to have to swap my square port Hooker headers out when I get
the dogleg Edelbrock heads, and the hookers have served me very well over
the 11 years I have had them on the car! I bought them from summit 11 years
ago to replace a set of blackjack headers that bent when they bottomed out
on an driveway entrance bending the flange and blowing the gasket with
dramatic results--combustion flame exiting out the #7 exaust port! Anyway
the hookers burned off their black coating after a year or so but they
sealed very well. 3 years after I had initially installed them I ended up
taking them off to install a 2 1/2" axle turn down exaust-this was around
1997 and the headers were still sealing very well, but I sanded them down to
bare metal smoothed out the ports with a dremel and painted them with
serveral coats of High Temp exaust paint, and had the collectors welded on
to eliminate leaks.  
 Fast forward 7 years to the present-most of the paint has burned off, but
it lasted much longer than the hooker supplied coating and the collectors
have never leaked and the same exaust port gaskets are still sealed nice and
quiet! These headers served me well! Now I will probably get a ceramic or
nickle plated header, the ceramic coated hookers are $400+ and I can get a
set of Tri-Y Nickle Chrome plated headers for slighty less than that. Now
from a performance standpoint Tri-Y's are supposed to be great for producing
a flat broad torque band but I am not sure if they are that much better-if
at all over conventional full length 4 into one headers that I have
traditionally used on my AMX over the past 17 years I have owned her.
Opnions on coatings header designs and brands are appreciated. I am
wondering if the edelbrocks might be an option as well but I have learned
over the years that cutting corners on a free breathing exaust can hurt
perfromance. John 


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