Agree 100 percent. Im 69 and have driven HP mopars brand new. They were sick. Loved the power. Mopar designed the HP Exhaust manifolds to give max horse power from stock engines. Adding headers did little if nothing. But any time you change from stock you may need better breathing. My opinion is: It is your car, do what you want. You are not wrong for anything you do. Some love headers, some do not. I build stock motors and do not like headers.
I think Felpro
So you mildly built a 383 and it dusted off a STOCK 383. Most every thing I say is about STOCK and have also stated that when building an engine Headers may be better. Why does everyone not see my words STOCK?Never had a problem getting mine to run better. Grew up with these cars and drove them stock and modified. My mildly built 383 had no problem dusting off the factory 383 road runners and gave fits to 440 powered Chargers too. Had a lot of fun with that 66 4 door Belvedere pissing off the guys with their shiny new factory hot rods. Nutin like a sleeper
Btw, the 72's were nothing like the 70 model cars were....and only 2 engines were worth their salt in 71 when everything else went down in compression and power.
Because " stock " is not a recognizable term. Now if one was doing a connoisseur to original engine build everyone would know what it was.
My engine was so mild that most would have considered it stock......and pretty much was except for headers and a different carb. It even idled like a stock engine. So, define STOCK. Yup, headers and a non stock carb made it different than stock....at least at the drag strip it did but even having a different size tire on the back put it into a different class.
