I have been saving and waiting for the right time to redo the exhaust on my 1984 Camaro with a 388 Stroker. I finally am ready to redo the exhaust and to my dismay the headers I want have been discontinued after barely being in production. Does anyone know where a guy can find a set of Hookers BH13201 long tube headers? Does any warehouse happen to have one or does anyone here have a set they want to get rid of?

 

I can tell you from experience they are crap. I had a set of $200 eBay headers as a stopgap that fit better. The dual 2.5" exhaust is still available I believe and it is top notch. It fits perfectly and took about 2h to install with absolutely no modifications.

 

I was under the impression that these were the only decent fitting long tubes that'll fit around a manual transmission slave cylinder and have good ground clearance. beside stainless works but they are absurdly priced.
What are you using for headers to bolt up to that dual 2.5" system? The plan was to use those BH13201 headers with the 2.5" system too keep it all hooker. What did you do with the set of hookers you didn't like?

 

yes they are discontinued unfortunately.... I read somewhere that the speed engineering long tubes will fit with the hooker system, but this is anecdotal and I cannot say for sure (also depends on what motor mounts etc you are using). I was planning on the hooker setup as well, but due to this same reason, I went with hawks headers and a stainless works system and I am going to make my own y-pipe. ( I also decided I like the stock looking tips, and the hooker mufflers in the back look a little too chunky to me)

 

Speed engineering unfortunately doesn't make sbc headers for our cars only LS and LT headers. Seems like the stainless works is the only other sbc longtube for our cars that fits well and has decent ground clearance but it is so insanely expensive I'd almost just learn how to make my own. Looking at dougs headers and previous posts and seems like ground clearance isn't good.

 

Right side, #4 spark plug crashed hard on #2 pipe. This is with the shortest plugs I could find. Had to space it away from the head and beat the pipe. Not really sure if it's a QC issue or a design issue. Also couldn't install the recommended starter because the pipes were too close to it. It was incredibly frustrating and their customer support wasn't worth a crap as well.

 

Good info to know on these.

 

What headers are you running now then? What did you do with those hooker headers you couldn't get to fit?

 

Looks like Hooker did away with all of their long tube headers for 3rd gens. I run Hooker super comps and wanted a new set, all discontinued. Looks like Hedman and Dougs still make long tubes.

 

The hookers, I had to fab a spacer for the flange and beat the pipe. It works, just a lot of time and frustration.

 

Supposedly the dougs are a direct copy of the hooker super comp 2210s. How'd you find ground clearance on those? Manual or auto trans and if manual how was the slave cylinder clearance? Hedman just doesn't have a 1-3/4" primary option I think.

 

My car is strictly a drag car no exhaust and no street use. Ground clearance is fine, I have no problems with plugs and I have angle plug heads. I run an automatic so I can't say about slave cylinder. Years back I ran the Hedmans with 1 5/8" tubes and they fit fine with straight plug heads. It's just sad that Hooker has abandoned the 3rd gen platform.

 

Yeah it really is a shame, chatted with a hooker rep and he said they're never coming back unless laws change back. Said there was new laws that prevented them from selling it. I might just have to get dougs long tubes and hope they're not dragging on the ground.

 

I don't buy their BS about laws, other companies are making them. They were bought out and are too big to care about the car owners only care about shareholders.

 

Other companies have faced huge fines as well.