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    Dang - all you needed was a piece of poster paper from Wally World (35 cents) and a ball pein hammer that has a good rounded head - and made the same way you make that water outlet or differential gasket at 9:00 PM on a Saturday night. Those Ford exhaust gaskets - none, regardless of brand are a very good fit except those expensive Earl's - or so I found out when I used the GT40 heads on the '31
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    Quote Originally Posted by IC2 View Post
    ... Those Ford exhaust gaskets - none, regardless of brand are a very good fit except those expensive Earl's - or so I found out when I used the GT40 heads on the '31
    Amen, brother!! And as I have learned, some of the aftermarket aluminum heads take some liberties with their castings, making sealing things up a bit of a challenge sometimes. If you're going to spend valuable time making flanges from scratch I would make them to exactly match the heads you are holding, not to match somebody's dimension drawing. At the very least you need to verify every dimension against your heads, IMO.
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    Sorry about the mis communication. The only thing im confused on is the bolt hole center location compared to the port hole center. These must be exact because if they are off then, bolts, ports, and everything could be not lined up correctly.
    I am having a hard time finding this.

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    I think that the reason that you are having trouble finding the tapped hole location relative to the port is that it is not an exact dimension.....the ports are cast and the header bolt hole locations are machined when the head is clamped against some reference surface...usually pads at the ends or head bolt surfaces that were machined in the first operation. The casting cores are not in a terribly precise location....so things vary among heads.

    I think the suggestion of taking your heads and doning a real measurement on them is the best if you want precision......OR you could make your plates and hand fit them to your heads.

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    if they are made in the prosses that you describe, than any aftermarket header that you buy will not fit on any head, because it is not "in a terribly precise location".

    The factories MUST have some talerance for the casting.

    Well my plan is to make the flange, then make tools (inside and outside die/madrel) to flare the pipe to a more oval shape. and directly match the port size. (or bigger).
    The pipe will then slide into the flang then be tig welded on the inside, (head side).
    Any comments?

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    First of all, if you take a stock factory exhaust manifold and match it to the head, you will be shocked at how far it can be off......1/8" is not uncommon. Some exhausts are made
    bigger all around the port on purpose so there is a drop off going into the exhaust.

    Headers are'nt much better; I've had to move the header bolt holes by almost 1/4" on some header models.....if I didnt, the flow would be terrible at the junction.

    The best way to start the process is to find or make a gasket that matches your head....check both heads to see if they are the same. Take that new gasket/template and put it on your exhaust and see where you fall......then, make your new flanges from your template so they fit.....

    What you are describing as to your fabrication of headers is essentially what the header guys do.

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    From my discussions with the custom header guys and my experience on one set of headers, the flanges you buy have the ports sized to match the OD of your prescribed primary tube. For a 302 the "normal" is 1 5/8" primaries and the tubing is a controlled OD which gives you a circumfurence of 5.11" so the port perimeter will be about 5.15" or so. When you form your tube to fit and tap it into place you'll get nearly a zero gap fit. Header guys I talked to said to weld on the outside, leaving the machined surface of the header flange unmolested, but to never weld both sides of the flange.

    Sounds like you already know exactly what you want to do, and that you either own or have access to some pretty sophisticated equipment. Not many people can afford to spend time making things like custom header flanges and make it pay off so you are in an enviable position. Good luck with your header build. I'd love to see pictures of your process as you move forward.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Henderlong View Post
    if they are made in the prosses that you describe, than any aftermarket header that you buy will not fit on any head, because it is not "in a terribly precise location".

    The factories MUST have some talerance for the casting.

    Well my plan is to make the flange, then make tools (inside and outside die/madrel) to flare the pipe to a more oval shape. and directly match the port size. (or bigger).
    The pipe will then slide into the flang then be tig welded on the inside, (head side).
    Any comments?
    From someone who's fabricated many sets of SBF headers, I have to say I think you're making the process way too difficult.....

    As others mentioned, use the gasket that most closely matches your exhaust port opening, then grind the od of the flange to match... I usually by a header kit, with flanges, tubes, and collectors from Speedway. Once I get the flanges to match the ports, it's a simple matter of dingin' the round tubes to an oval shape on the end with a body hammer and some solid round stock with the correct radius held in the vice.

    Unless you're tuning for one or two horse on the dyno, don't really see where anything more exotic would be required.....and if you are looking for the absolute best horsepower, then you've got the wrong set of heads anyway...JMO
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    Hha, ya i know these heads are not the greatest....
    I used a cmm machine to answer my own question.
    If you were to draw a line down the center of the bolts, the port ends 18.5608mm in one direction, and 12.9901mm in the other. So i took a persentage of that and apllied it to a 1.8inch (h) x 1.32inch (w) port on the flange
    I will post a picture once i finish the design

    idk if i want to use a ball pean hammer to shape the tube. I sorta want to flare it out useing a press and some custom tools. This would be better for production if i wanted.

    I have axcess to a 3 axis cnc machine at school. All i have to do is build it on CAD and convert it to a txt doc. Then i take it over to the cnc.
    However i first want to mill it out of wood, to ensure that it fits correctly. I will of course use a wood cnc mill for this, not a metal one.
    Just give me a few hours to make a mock up design.
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    I think he is talking about the relation ship of the mounting bolts to the 1.9" dim.. They are not centered to the port. The ball pein and poster board is a good idea. Henderlong are you going to program a digital pattern into a water jet or laser?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sfort View Post
    I think he is talking about the relation ship of the mounting bolts to the 1.9" dim.. They are not centered to the port. The ball pein and poster board is a good idea. Henderlong are you going to program a digital pattern into a water jet or laser?
    Yeah, sfort I agree. I would put a bolt in the front & rear mounting holes on the head, run a good straight edge across the top & bottom of the bolt measuring to the respective port edges. Those measurements plus the bolt OD, all measured with a dial caliper will give him the offset within 0.001" or closer. I'd rather have the measurements from my head than the dimension from somebody's drawing.
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    I am not sure what kind of machine it is, but there is a place in Tampa where you can take metal up to about a inch thick and they can cut that kind of stuff out for you.
    The only reason I know about it is there is a fuel tanker repair shop in front of it and the guys in there were telling me about it on day. Not sure if it's a laser type machine or some type of dye cutting machine they use though. But it is good to know it is there, if ever needed though.
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    i think your`e being over precise with measurements that can be quite loose .. a 3/8ths bolt will easily go thru a 7/16ths hole
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    Quote Originally Posted by HOSS429 View Post
    i think your`e being over precise with measurements that can be quite loose .. a 3/8ths bolt will easily go thru a 7/16ths hole
    haha over precise? I have to do both sides, 8 ports. all holes must lines up pretty dang close. If i plan to ever sell these- how would i douplicate my messurements and procedures if im not as acurate as possible? Plus the overall aperaence must look good, and i plan on showing my boss this when im done, and hopfuly working a better position.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Henderlong View Post
    haha over precise? I have to do both sides, 8 ports. all holes must lines up pretty dang close. If i plan to ever sell these- how would i douplicate my messurements and procedures if im not as acurate as possible? Plus the overall aperaence must look good, and i plan on showing my boss this when im done, and hopfuly working a better position.
    That's all well and good, precision is a much overlooked facet of building... But if you're doing this for production heads (and some of the offshore aftermarket knockoff junk) you'll need your bolt holes to be much less then precise to allow for casting shift, poor quality control, and other boo-boo's that make it necessary to adjust the flange to align with the ports, sometimes to the point of having to cut the flange between ports, move the tube around to "find" the port, then reconnect!!!!! Precision is good, but adjustability has got to be a consideration, too!
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