Hey guys, thought I would share what we experienced with the headers on our 51' ford f1 working with Sanderson.

The truck has a 429 crammed into it. When we bought it the guy had a pair of plain steel sanderson headers on it. When we added the Toyota steering box to go to power steering the left/driver side header would no longer work, since the box was now in the way. we couldn't come straight down in the middle because of the motor mount.

Custom headers around here we were told would run about 1500 bucks (that is for both sides of course, so what, 750 per side), but we only needed the one side and when I checked Sanderson's website I saw that they offer custom services. I called up and talked to Jeremy, a real nice guy. Explained it to him, sent him some pics in email. He said without the vehicle there it was too tight a fit to just build something without more data. he sent me a box of tubing bent into u's and what not, and we fabbed up a set ourselves and sent it back.

from there it went to Jay, the guy that they named a set of their off the shelf headers for, and he took over. he built us a set and tacked it up, offered to finish it or let me test fit, being careful I asked to test fit. I got them, fit them and sent back out same day (I'd like to mention here that Jay thought my right side, which is really close to the firewall, would maybe work better with their 461, which drops lower, he sent me a set to try out and although they didn't work, almost hitting the frame, it was really nice of him).

here are the finished headers, the left/driver side are the custom ones. I had them ceramic coat them. the best part, TOTAL COST 565, 100 dollars over the cost of the stock headers. that's right, if I had two sides custom it would have been 665. You just can't beat that. I highly recommend these guys, I have not go the engine running again (in fact, I am worried about that as it says use an old set of headers at first when tuning the engine but I don't have any old ones to use now) but they sure look great.

let me know what you all think

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