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AMERICANIRON

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I BOUGHT SOME HEADERS FROM A FRIEND AND THEY WONT FIT MY CAR WHICH IS WIERD BECAUSE WE TOOK EM OFF HIS CAR BECAUSE HE'S GETTING LONGTUBES SO I KNOW THEY SHOULD FIT. I WAS DOING THE PASS. SIDE FIRST BECAUSE IT THE HARD PART AND COME TO FIND OUT THAT THE PRIMARIES ARE SPACED TO CLOSE TOGETHER, AND THE BOLT HOLES WONT LINE UP BY A 1/8 OF AN INCH.ANYBODY ELSE EVER HAD THIS PROBLEM?
 
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If each tube bolts to the head individually you will have to do some prying and streching to get them to fit. I had the same problem when I changed to some Trick flow heads and I had some older BBK unequal lenth headers.
Kevin
 
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how do you pry them?
 

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Big screwdriver or one of those small prybars from someplace like sears. I personally try to stay away from headers that don't have a common flange that joins all the primaries together. I have had to fight with the LTs on my old challenger because the had warped a little with the heat and didn't line up quite right. Are they equal or unequal length headers?
 
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unequal length ill try pring them tommorrow.
 
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still i have no vise or anything to secure them in place so that i could pry them.
 
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thanks a million yall, i stood on the header and pryed it and im sure it gonna work now because i measured using a gasket. thanks again brandon
 
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