Hooker Headers that is. After wrestling my Hedman's out this afternoon, I unwrapped my new ceramic coated 2055's and they slid right in. No prying, no fighting, no scratching the hell out of them trying to get them in. I only wish I would have bought them to begin with. They are significantly heavier duty than the Hedmans, which I really liked, until today. These 2055's are much more well designed, and the y-pipe is a thing of beauty. I'll post some pics tomorrow, only took about 4 hours start to finish. Not bad at all.

Will

 

Nice job Will...You know living in SF you should be careful how you use the word hookers...

Pictures?

 

That's all I got right now. I'm tired and dirty, LOL, don't feel like going back into the garage. I'll get some shots in the light tomorrow.

Will

 

Well dammit im deleting this pic I have of your engine bay now...It is now even more beautified..

 

You think those are sweet you should look up Lemons headers or Ed Quay.

I'd take those over Edelsnot TES though! You also have those silly little tubes on there, all kommiefornia like.

 

Pimps beat hookers?

Nice Will. I've got the same ones. Came Jet-Hot coated w/y-pipe back in the day too.

 

As is often the case, you get what you pay for! Any dyno info on your car before and after the header change, or just done as more of a cosmetic thing?

 

Congrats on the headers have you noitced an exhaust note change or any performace worth mentioning? Why the change? Was there any problems with the other headers you had on?

 

PICS!!! lol

 

I hope you reworked the 2 1/2" ball connection before you put them on, it is seriously undersize where it meets the Y-pipe. (about 1 3/4" to be exact)

 

Hey Dyno Don! Show these people who has the best overall headers for the Thirdgen f-bodies. They may be still lost in the old world.

 

I don't think Don's headers were readily and easily available when I bought my Hookers 7 years ago. If I was ever going to change and wanted to remain smog legal, I'd certainly consider them based on what I've read and seen.

 

Dyno Don make's his own headers or what?

 

wtfs a Y pipe?

 

Yes.....available for dual cats or single.

These:

 

This:

 

are those ceramic or chrome?

 

Ceramic.

 

What're you charging nowadays for those Don? I know John up here is picking up a set, forgot to ask.

 

lol i was joking

 

lol @ Nor-Cal humor

 

what about the slap chop guy? i have to admit that y pipe is defiantly a fine piece of craftsmanship

 

Yeah someday I will replace my edelbrocks....these are deffinately an option...but I need a CARB #.

 

I know....shameful So Cal (plug)

Can't waste an opportunity to post another picture LOL!

That's impressive for an LO3

 

I'll try to address everyone's that's posted so far.

dspencer24 : My old hedmans had some scratches and the ceramic coating was not very good to begin with. I had wanted to rework the y-pipe but got a good deal on these hookers and decided since it had the nice big y-pipe I went that route. I definitely noticed a better sound with this setup, but that could also be in part because of the magnaflow(carsound) cat that I used to replace my old Catco cat.

Here's a clip from this afternoon. http://youtu.be/mUEn9R7cQr4

Radical82 : No numbers before or after. I did however dyno my old L98 bone stock except for catback and then with hedman headers and picked up 20rwhp. Went from 214 to 234. Also had another L98, a 91, pull exacty 20 rwhp with the same headers on his Z28.

DynoDon : I did not modify anything at this time. I've got access to a lift at work so I can always drop the pipe and modify it later. I will likely dyno it before and after to see if it does much, but most header designs seem to restrict somewhere in the vicinity of the collector. My hedmans had a huge 3" collector, but the y-pipe choked them down to 2 maybe 2 1/4". I'm happy with these the way they are and don't really think I'll mess with them.

Here's the only pic I have so far, they're kind of dirty but man do they shine. I'll post some pics up this weekend since I'll finally have nothing going on for a change, and a chance to work on the car before Pac. Coast Dream Machines

Will

 

Mine came in on Friday! Thanks Don. They look great! The Y Pipe is gorgeous and well crafted together. In respect to Don, I won't post the price here. But after crackin open the box after I snatched em off the UPS guy, money well spent!!

 

Everyone down here in SoCal that are using his headers are passing smog with no problem. If you may have doubts, take the tag off the Edelbrocks and put it on his.

 

Just for jollies

 

time to convert to a 3 or 4 wire O2 sensor will!

 

haha, I don't need to get into closed loop that fast

 

alright. looks great though. these are deffinately two options for me when I change from my edelslops

 

You won't be disappointed dude, I used to think my Hedmans were nice, until I bought these. Bee's Knees my friend

 

Nice Will, I heard good things about the 2055 headers, unfortunately I have dual cats, I may I have to look into Dyno Don's headers.

 

You could get the 2055's, sell the y-pipe, and run a custom setup. It's a pretty simple design to run it to the stock cats