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Dropped deposit and engine off over the weekend for some love. It's currently a stock LQ9. But roughly 6 weeks from now it's going to be a 416ci stroker setup with heavy massage work to my 317 heads. I've found some 1.75" Primary tube off the shelf headers that look like they'll work for my application but I'd rather run 1-7/8" or even 2" if I can find some. It's that vs. having a custom set built which I'm not opposed to but for budget reasons if I can find something off the shelf I'd rather go that route and put the money spent on custom headers towards something else in the build.
That said, does anyone know if anyone is doing 2" primaries in a tight block hugger style? Preferably something that swept towards the rear and not straight down centered at the center two cylinders.
I'm pretty tight on space on the passenger side is my issue...
Hard to see and the motor is in the shop as mentioned above so I can't take pictures of my current clearance... But from these two you can somewhat see I'm tight on clearance. I've been running 100% stock but I'm going pretty heavily built so I'd like to get all the help I can out of the headers. Before pulling the motor I measured from the head surface to my firewall/frame clearance off the side and it's basically at 4".
These are the only pictures I'm seeing that "happen" to somewhat show the tight area I'm working in...
Well, lots of help here... Been emailing with Kooks and I'll have to do some serious measuring but I don't think any of theirs will fit. Not having any luck... Custom it is...
Not exactly sure the point of this forum. Seems like more times than not when I ask a question it goes unanswered...
Last edited by sirhk100; Jul 11, 2019 at 01:59 PM.
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2" primary tube block huggers? 
