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Robert, I am following your learning curve here and would appreciate it if you would quit telling us how old you are at 58. I'm 80 and not old yet, you young whipper-snapper...lol.
Reasonable sized tube headers on a 383/400 in a b body is usually pretty easy. Back in the day we had a set that could be bolted on outside the car and the engine trans and headers all dressed went in with the leveler on the picker and fit between the torsion bars.
With a 383 I've usually been...
Now idling after 20 minute camshaft break-in period (actually two sessions of 10 minutes each). Oregon Camshaft #2120 for 340 through dual Purple Hornies mufflers (side exhaust).
A friend of the family had a 1956 Desoto 4-door hardtop, in blue and white. I think that was the first car that I thought was special. I would have been 9 years old.
I was informed of the actual existence of the ever so holy grail of K members. Magnesium. These are the ones rumored to have made it under the four first ever 2% cars. Jim Kramer can attest.
I used a hammer drill to drill a hole in the concrete. I bought a concrete anchor and a eye bolt with the same thread. I measured the distance between the eyebolt and the header flange and connected an appropriate length turnbuckle between them. I shortened the turnbuckle until the header...
9.5 is the max recommended by Mickey thompson. Depending on your car anywhere from 8-10 would work. Offsets are important. Centerline has 4 7/8" rear backspacing in their 15x8.5" draglite and convo pros which would work nicely.
That’s what I ran on my Belvedere.