A couple of you have been 'following' my endeavors to install Sanderson
"Block-Hugger" exhaust headers (along with my aluminized 2 1/4" o.d.
exhaust pipes & Sonic-4 NOS mufflers).
Today was "The Day".
It dawned bright & sunny (oh, yeah, the story ;
ok, ) I take Horrie to the nice muffler shop , and check-back, later,
all-happy about the blessed-event, in progress, only to learn that:
"those headers don't fit"!!!
It seems that Sanderson's 'dedicated-design'
(1957 Dodge-325 c.i. engine) "Block Hugger" aluminized, very-pretty,
exhaust manifolds DON'T FIT (@ least for MY O.E.M.-type-CAR!)
The manifold's front-runner reportedly (by my shop) "hits" the
(forward-located) motor-mount,
and the main exhaust-dump-extractor aligns
very-nicely with the torsion bars (although the 'dumps' MIGHT
barely-miss the T/bars; my shop couldn't 'get' the manifolds to line-up,
due to the front-motor-mount snafu (that's Navy-
speak for a not-nice situation).
So, Sanderson said send-back their $463.00 manifolds, & they're already
boxed-up.
ANYWAYYYY, & here's where you SanFranners can help us all out.
Sanderson is located in So. SanFrisco :
650-583-6617, altho they also have a toll-free number (but the
"800"-live-operators have all gone 'home' for the night, now--I kid you
NOT; check it out @ 1-800-555-1212).
They told me that they would be "HAPPY" to have a (List-member!) person
show-up @ their
'place' and have 'his' car be a TEMPLATE for
a re-design of their Block-Hugger manifold.
[Reading between the lines] Sanderson sed that :" Well, your manifolds
DO fit your engine block" (well, YEAH, BUT, howabout 'making' them fit
my......CAR!!!???
How many "Hot-rodders" would want engine-block-hugging headers--those
with 30's
style cars?? (ain't no 40's style hot-rods, are there?)
So, PLEEEZE, y'all, on the left-coast, contact Sanderson, & arrange for
them to measure-yer-
MoPars--I dunno if the 'clearances' are all that (Dodge-)different ,
between the various late 50's cars, but I think it would make a NEAT
"tour-trip" for a bunch of these cars to visit Sanderson, @ one-time,
so that Sanderson could mock-up the designs for a variety of
engines/designs, "efficiently", for them!
This situation reminds me of my favorite joke, from The Pink Panther,
where someone asks
Cluseau (pardon my French) if "his" dog (located behind a fense),
"bites"? C. sez : "No", & the man goes into the yard, & is promptly
bitten by the dog! The man exclaims: "I thought you said that your dog
doesn't 'bite'? " C. responds: " That is NOT my dog!".
Sanderson says that their Block-huggers 'fit' 325 c.i. engines; they
never said (although I'm SURE that I asked them!!) that their headers
would 'fit' into an O.E.M.-type CAR!!
btw, the Sonic-4's, & 2 1/4" pipes sound very "deep", & smooth, sorta
loud (authoritative). my former
15+ y.o. muffs & 2" exhaust sounded 'higher'
& "cammier" , but, mebbe not quite as "authoritative" , as the
barrel-chested "sonics".
Please contact Sanderson.
Neil Vedder
(I feel better, now)_
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