Thread: Headers For 502 Ram Jet

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Hello I am looking for some headers for my 502 ramjet its going into a 1959 Apache pick-up two wheel drive w/ costom bilt frame. I tried getting a hold of some Hooker Headers but they said they don't make headers for that application. If anyone can help me out with some info of what I am looking for would be great thanks...

i make headers but i do not know if you want to take it to bay mich

i make headers but i do not know if you want to take it to bay mich

i make headers but i do not know if you want to take it to bay mich

Not really but thanks for the offer. I was at the Good Guys Car Show in Kansas this weekend and I seen some headers on the 502's that were from Hooker. I can get hooker headers but they are shorties and we don't want that.

there is lots of custom header builders out there. you have to start lookingi think you will find some thing

Check Hedman and Sanderson; I think I have seen this application addressed on their sites.

Rrumbler... We went with the Sanderson headers. thanks for the info guys....

You're welcome! I hope they work out; I've never heard anything derogatory about Sanderson, and from what I've seen of their products, they seem to be top line. Did you go with the full length, or the shorty style? I'd be interested in how they fit, since my truck is in the tear down stages right now, and my mind keeps turning over the idea of a ground pounding RAT for it's new incarnation. Got any p-hotos of your truck?

My uncle ordered the fulllength C6's. The guy who is building our frame and putting in the motor just called yesterday and said one header is not fitting right its hitting a bolt to the head or something. Yeah I got a few picks of the custom frame, rear end and sub frame. I might resize them and post a few if you would like to see it?

I'd sure enjoy seeing pics of your build, and I am sure others would too; I don't know anybody who messes with cars and hot rods who doesen't like to see what other folks are doing.

Ok my uncle and I just went to see what he was talking about on the headers they are hitting the headbolts. The bolts are a hair to high.
Everyone he has talked to said not to touch those headbolts and if we do it will leak. Can we take one out at a time and just put a new bolt in there? I don't see how it would leak if we did one at a time and tourqed them back down?

Do you get what im talking about?

We are just a bit further now in the project. All fours are now on the ground and getting ready to fit the cab and place in the motor.
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you trim the bottom header flanges were the bolts hit do this all the time on studs