Found this while looking up Hooker headers
silver coating from the 1970s to see what all the fuss aboout as never heard of
it, any headers I used were just that, headers, no extras. Thought would ahre
this 'darkside' ditty below here, sort of relevant. I also always thought that
moving to the dark side meant someone jumped from brand x to
AMC....
Coating Breakthrough
Hooker
Darkside
Hooker Headers announces their new Darkside black-ceramic coating
process, available on select header applications. This exclusive proprietary
black ceramic coating offers the nostalgic look of the past as well as the
aggressive look of a modern high-tech build. Darkside also offers a more refined
texture and appearance than is possible from painted finishes. With a satin
sheen, it has a more menacing look, yet also provides all the corrosion
resistance of traditional silver ceramic. The Darkside coating also provides
improved thermal resistance compared to traditional silver ceramic (1,700
degrees F versus 1,300 degrees F), making it good for supercharged or nitrous
applications as well as for reduced underhood temperatures. Darkside coated
headers are available for popular GM, Ford, and Chrysler muscle cars as well as some Chevy
trucks. And because of different preparation and application techniques, the new
Darkside headers are available at a slightly lower price than their silver
ceramic counterparts.
Hooker Darkside Applications
2292-3HKR-GM
LS1/LS2/LS6 in '55-57 Chevy engine swap headers, for use with stock steering box
or Saginaw 605 steering box conversions
2293-3HKR- GM LS1/LS2/LS6 in '55-57
Chevy engine swap headers, for use with Unisteer aftermarket rack-and-pinion
steering
2451-3HKR-265-400 S.B Chevy, '65-70 full-size passenger car, '64-87
Chevelle/El Camino, '70-87 Monte Carlo, '68-79 Chevy II/ Nova, '67-69
Camaro
2452-3HKR-265-400 S.B. Chevy, '63-87 2WD truck, Blazer,
Suburban
2453-3HKR-265-400 S.B. Chevy, '67-87 4WD truck, Blazer,
Suburban
2455-3HKR-396-502 B.B. Chevy, '71-74 full-size passenger car, '64-74 Chevelle/El
Camino, '70-74 Monte Carlo, '70-72 Camaro
2457-3HKR-396-502 B.B. Chevy,
'65-70 full-size passenger car, '68-74 Chevy II/Nova, '67-69
Camaro
2460-3HKR-265-400 S.B. Chevy, '82-92 Camaro
2466-3HKR-283-400 S.B.
Chevy, '71-94 full-size passenger car, '64-87 Chevelle/El Camino, '70-87 Monte
Carlo, '68-79 Chevy II/Nova, '67-81 Camaro. Compact design to provide increased
ground clearance.
5901-3HKR-273-360 S.B. Chrysler, all '67-82 B- and E-bodies
(A- and F-bodies)
5903-3HKR-383-440 Chrysler, all '67-74 B- and E-bodies,
'70-74 Challenger/Barracuda, 400 Chrysler, '75 Chrysler
Cordoba
6901-3HKR-255-302W S.B. Ford, '66-73
Falcon/Fairlane/Torino/Ranchero/Cyclone/Montego, '64-73 Mustang/Cougar, '66-69
Comet, '70-77 Maverick, 351W S.B. Ford '67-73
Mustang/Fairlane/Cougar
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 2:24
PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] I just
don't understand the stupid people on ebay
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I know first hand what you mean by cheap imported steel. I my
job working on industrial laser, I encounter this a lot. I
customer is having trouble cutting all of a sudden, thinking something
is wrong with the laser, they call me, most of the time it they have
switch suppliers and are now getting this imported crap. I
normally have them get a sheet of goos steel, and evrything worgs fine
again.
Ed
--- On Mon, 2/22/10, Eddie Stakes
<eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From:
Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re:
[BaadAssGremlins] I just don't understand the stupid
people on ebay
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday,
February 22, 2010, 2:13 PM
Hi Ed, for some reason I thouht those headers that sold on ebay
were chrome, I'll have to go back and look at link. I think there are
several things here also worth mentioning, years ago, the paint and
coatings everyone used is probably not as good as the stuff being made
to today as technology has come a long way with heat coatings, ect.
On the other hand, there are a lot of metal products I would
rather have from the 1970s.....used, as opposed to the cheap sh*t
Vietnamese and Chinese metal that have flooded the market in recent
years. A example here would be cat converters. I had several NOS ones
and saved them, to use on my own cars that required them. When taking
them to the muffler shop to install, each muffler shop told me 'man,
they don't make them like that anymore' just being good, solidly built
American piece as compared to the McChinese ones they sold and would
have used on my car, which would have been good for maybe 3-5 years
max before failing.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010
1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins]
I just don't understand the stupid people on ebay
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Eddie
I know that the spirit of the auction will also drive up
a price. I know that I have seen it many times when I
used to sell a lot on ebay. As for the silver paint, I
put a set of these headers on my 72 304 Gremlin back in 1973,
I beleive that I paid around $125.00 for them, which back than
I was only making around $3.00 an hrs, preping new AMC.
But the header started to rust a few weeks after i installed
them, so I removed them and cleaned them with a wirewheel and
painted them with Hi Temp paint, using that they stayed nice
for about year, Aftyer that I said the hell with it, because
it was a go car, not a show car. The point is is that
the paint from that time was that great.
Ed
--- On Mon, 2/22/10, Eddie Stakes
<eddiestakes@ planethoustonamx .com>
wrote:
From:
Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@ planethoustonamx
.com>
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] I just don't
understand the stupid people on ebay
To: BaadAssGremlins@
yahoogroups. com
Date: Monday, February 22, 2010, 11:35
AM
There are whole range of factors at work here. And not
confined to ebay only, hell, you can find them at swap
meets, craigslist, even live auctions
There are people out there who don't do research on
items. A good case would be that 69 BBG AMX that appeared on
my AMC Classifieds last year for $10K/obo in Arlington, TX.
Suddenly it was in Wylie, TX and on ebay for $18K/obo. So
dragging it across a few counties cost $8K! It still didn't
sell and last I saw it was in ebay hell, that is, those cars
that take up residency on ebay week after week, price slowly
dropping week after week, everyone tired of seeing them
while owner, or seller, tries to make $$$.
Not against capitalism at all, but possibly the buyer
of the headers wanted that chrome paint, as opposed to the
black hi temp paint on the Jegs site?
How about that used Nintendo NES that sold for $13,105
on ebay? That one game there, there are only 10 copies in
world known to exist.
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