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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 03:12 PM
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I came into an awesome deal yesterday. I was getting the oil changed in my patrol car and talking to the owner of the business. We were talking cars and I remembered that he had been building an lt1 based hotrod a couple years back. And I mentionefd that my current project was my 95 t/a and I was hoping that he may have had a few leftover parts I could pick up cheap. I told him my first part was the headers I wanted and he....."I got some headers for an lt1" so if course I thought it would be some shorties, but to my astonishment he leads me to a storage room where a set of never used black lt hookers sat. Apparently he bought them for his rod and because he was using the motor from a 95 z28, that's what he ordered the headers to fit. Well let's just say that his hotrod and a camaro didn't share the same frame. So he said I paid a little over 400$ for them back a few years ago and ns was tired of looking at them. He said take them, test fit them and if you decide they work, bring me a hundred dollar bill. If they don't work, bring them back.

Now, here's the bad news. They are black paint which means they'll go to the chromer in a couple days and they don't have the o2 bungs in the collecter which means my mid pipe will have to have them installed. Pictures to come.
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 03:39 PM
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Have them ceramic coated, not chromed.

O2 bungs are like 10 bucks to buy and 10 bucks to weld in.

All problems solved.
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 03:50 PM
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Is there that big of a difference? Please enlighten. Im not very knowledgeable on baked or chemical added thermal barriers
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Is there that big of a difference? Please enlighten. Im not very knowledgeable on baked or chemical added thermal barriers
While ceramic coating adds a small degree of corrosion resistance, they also keep underhood temperatures down and (theoretically) increase scavenging. It is FAR better than painted.
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 04:21 PM
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Smoking deal, try Jethot, they usually have decent prices for coating headers.

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Well I have metal coating /plating shop close by. Would prefer to keep money in the community to help small business if possible. I did some research. I'll definately go ceramic.
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Well I have metal coating /plating shop close by. Would prefer to keep money in the community to help small business if possible. I did some research. I'll definately go ceramic.
Even better, no shipping cost.

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Just got to looking at my headers. They part number for a 93-97 sbc camaro. But don't have the fast burn style d-ports. Is this a problem?
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super comps dont have d port style, its not a problem
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