Thread: What header/exhaust combo?

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Redoing a 54 belair and i want a nice sound to it. What exhaust/header combo do you suggest? The motor is either the 235 or the 285... Thx guys

I suggest a set of Fenton cast iron headders, with a set of thrush magnum glasspacks in 2" 31" long. It has to be a 235 because I don't think chevy even made a 285, they did make a 261 but that came out after 1956 I belive. The stock intake manifold will not work I do not belive, you will need somthing like an offenhauser intake, I'm gonna get the 3 carb but there are 2 carb 1's. I put a glasspack on my car with a new temp exzaust ( so my neighbors/ neighborhood/ town woulden't complain because of the racket ( compleat open exzaust ( just a small portion of the first exzaust tube remained ). ( I live way out in the sticks and I ), with the 1 glasspack, it sounds like a v8 at crusing speeds and at idle somewhat, I can't wait to get the duals on it with the smitthys mufflers ( glasspacks that were popular in the 50's ( still produced ) with the fenton cast iron headders. www.speedwaymotors.com has all the parts I mentioned.

Clifford makes great Chevy six headers, but they aren't cheap. $289 in black paint, $364 in black ceramic. They're a better performance header than the old cast iron Fentons. I had a '52 with a 235 Corvette 6, dual carbs and Fentons. Wicked cackle from those pipes with Cherry Bombs.

With the stock 4.10 gears, that little six would give all of the late 50's - early 60's small V-8s a run for quite a few blocks.

http://www.cliffordperformance.com/Site04/Home.htm

Click on "Engine Parts" at the top then follow your nose.