Project Old Blue, 1965 C10, Rebuild Version 2010

[SCOTI]

What do you guys think?

Use the set that offers the best ground clearance & tweak or re-make the brake lines. You did good once, the 2nd time should be better right?

[aggie91]

Originally Posted by SCOTI

... re-make the brake lines. You did good once, the 2nd time should be better right?

It was beginners luck. But your right I SHOULD be able to do it again...

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by aggie91

It was beginners luck. But your right I SHOULD be able to do it again...

Hhmm.... I'm quite familiar w/bad luck; not so much w/this 'beginners' luck.

[Alan's Classic]

Here is the pic of the pump I have.

[aggie91]

I have decided to use the ones from my buddies camaro for my headers for now. I will remake the brake lines from the master cylinder to the frame. I looked at them for awhile last night. Looks like all that needs to change is the small "U" I put in them. The start of the U is high enough to clear the tube, I will just put a staight length between two 90* bends with the last 90 at about where the lower black line clamp is now instead of the 180* bend I have there now. Nothing more than 2 more lines from the parts store and an evening of work...

Thanks, Allan - I sent you a PM.

[aggie91]

Well my buddy has no idea what the headers are, except the fact that the came off of his 68 Camaro with a 350 and no AC. I did some searching on SummitRacing.com, From the pictures they are most likely Headman Headers. This is the set that he has on the Camaro now:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HED-68278/?rtype=10

Size and Shape wise this is most likely what Set 2 headers where without the coating. Set 1 headers most likely for Chevy c-10 trucks from 68 up, from pictures of the Flowtech's on Summit's site.

Looks like I need to save my lunch money for long time to get those....

I will just patch up the free ones that I have for now and go with that...

[aggie91]

Made a little money today at the swap meet in Canton. I might order a set of shorty headers for a chevelle off eBay that I have seen fit my year truck. I am going to use some of the money I made today for this project and see if I can finish the engine installation.
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[aggie91]

With some of the money I made from the swap meet this part weekend, I ordered these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...K%3AMEWAX%3AIT

There has been a thread on here in the 73-87 section and from my research I believe that they will fit and work well for my truck. Total cost to me: $148.84 shipped. I should have them by mid next week.

Once I have them, I will confirm that they fit and then I will rework my brake lines and complete the brakes.

Once all that is done, my next project is to get the ignition complete and test fire the engine with a temp fuel system...

[aggie91]

My new headers came in today!

They came from Pro Auto Luxury on ebay. Here is what I got (minus the passenger side header):

Nice thick flange, measured at 0.370" with my caliper:


Here is some of the welds, some still had the discoloration in the HAZ:



The ad for these on ebay said they are made from 304 stainless. I think that it might be 409 stainless. 409 is magnetic and 304 is not. The flange may be regular carbon steel since it appears to have a clear coat of some kind on it. You can see what looks like a run in the coating from the flange down part of the tube in that last picture. The coating looks like it is only on the flange except for a few runs on some of the tubes. I will know for sure once I get the motor running and have some heat on them...

Overall, I am pleased with them at this time.

[aggie91]

I spent sometime tonight putting them on to see how they fit. The passenger side fits good with no clearance issues to the frame rail or the motor mount frame brackets. I left the plastic bag they came in on this one to help avoid scratches for now.




The driver side header has an issue fitting the way I wanted. It looks like it will fit and clear every where except for the front tube hits the bracket for the motor mount.

The rear most bolt is in the flange, but the front most bolt hole is about an inch off from lining up with the hole in the head. I will just make/modify the motor mount frame bracket to clear, but still bolt in the factory holes.

All in all, I am happy with them. They came with all the hardware and reducers and gaskets. The hardware is metric except for the header bolts, the threads are 3/8"-16, but the head is a small 10mm hex. No problem there. The reducers are nice and have a good polished finish, the flange and reducer flanges are cut on a cnc plasma and are both nice and think. Once I get the motor mount modfied, I will run the pipes on the driver side, hook up the shift linkage, and then redo the brake lines.

[SCOTI]

They look decent enough.... Hopefully the MM tower doesn't need much tweaking.