Trickflow Highport header alternatives..

I have the highport heads, and i currently have the hooker headers designed for the heads. No matter what i do, i can not get them to seal good. They fit good, and look great(ceramic coated ) but the don't seal well. I've gotten to the point where i can't take it anymore. It makes my car sound like crap and i know it isn't helping the performance at all. I have a set of bbk shortie equal lengths from when i had the stock heads on. Has anyone been able to make them fit? I know that the ports are raised 3/4 of an inch and i can take care of that, but is anyone able to get them to fit around the steering shaft. I have no clue if they even will come close on the othe side. i haven't tried it yet. I would get the trickflow shorties if i had the money. but i don't.

Also, these headers have 1 3/4 primaries with a 3in. collector. I got them cheap and the are ceramic coated in and out. After going over the head's flow charts and the cm specs, i think that the primaries are too big. What do you think?

Sorry about the length
tom

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i can't get the flange to seal. I got the colletor to seal fine. The do fit great in the car though. I probably tried about four times now to get them to seal, but no matter what the always leak a little somwhere at first, but overtime the just leak more even when i tighten them. I have to use the adapter plate because i have the older style highports with the straight bolt pattern, but my headers have the diagonal bolt pattern. Maybe that could be a problem, but theres nothing i can do about that.
I got the bbk headers to fit! It took some modifying, but i got them to fit. Now i have to get a h or x pipe and go from there.
What do you think about the 1 3/4 being to big of a primary. Or is 1 5/8 too small?
Keep at those headers. It took me 8 hours to get one of the hooker headers to fit when i first got them.

thanks for the replies
tom

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