Neil, I don't know if the configuration is the same, but I could drive up to
SF (in the O.C. now) and have them make a template using my 60 Chrysler. Let
me know.
Brion
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From: "eastern sierra Adj Services" <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:22 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] Don-feel like huggin SANDERSON
> A couple of you have been 'following' my endeavors to install Sanderson
> "Block-Hugger" exhaust headers (along with my aluminized 2 1/4" o.d.
> exhaust pipes & Sonic-4 NOS mufflers).
>
> Today was "The Day".
>
> It dawned bright & sunny (oh, yeah, the story ;
> ok, ) I take Horrie to the nice muffler shop , and check-back, later,
> all-happy about the blessed-event, in progress, only to learn that:
> "those headers don't fit"!!!
>
> It seems that Sanderson's 'dedicated-design'
> (1957 Dodge-325 c.i. engine) "Block Hugger" aluminized, very-pretty,
> exhaust manifolds DON'T FIT (@ least for MY O.E.M.-type-CAR!)
>
> The manifold's front-runner reportedly (by my shop) "hits" the
> (forward-located) motor-mount,
> and the main exhaust-dump-extractor aligns
> very-nicely with the torsion bars (although the 'dumps' MIGHT
> barely-miss the T/bars; my shop couldn't 'get' the manifolds to line-up,
> due to the front-motor-mount snafu (that's Navy-
> speak for a not-nice situation).
>
> So, Sanderson said send-back their $463.00 manifolds, & they're already
> boxed-up.
>
> ANYWAYYYY, & here's where you SanFranners can help us all out.
>
> Sanderson is located in So. SanFrisco :
> 650-583-6617, altho they also have a toll-free number (but the
> "800"-live-operators have all gone 'home' for the night, now--I kid you
> NOT; check it out @ 1-800-555-1212).
>
> They told me that they would be "HAPPY" to have a (List-member!) person
> show-up @ their
> 'place' and have 'his' car be a TEMPLATE for
> a re-design of their Block-Hugger manifold.
>
> [Reading between the lines] Sanderson sed that :" Well, your manifolds
> DO fit your engine block" (well, YEAH, BUT, howabout 'making' them fit
> my......CAR!!!???
>
> How many "Hot-rodders" would want engine-block-hugging headers--those
> with 30's
> style cars?? (ain't no 40's style hot-rods, are there?)
>
> So, PLEEEZE, y'all, on the left-coast, contact Sanderson, & arrange for
> them to measure-yer-
> MoPars--I dunno if the 'clearances' are all that (Dodge-)different ,
> between the various late 50's cars, but I think it would make a NEAT
> "tour-trip" for a bunch of these cars to visit Sanderson, @ one-time,
> so that Sanderson could mock-up the designs for a variety of
> engines/designs, "efficiently", for them!
>
> This situation reminds me of my favorite joke, from The Pink Panther,
> where someone asks
> Cluseau (pardon my French) if "his" dog (located behind a fense),
> "bites"? C. sez : "No", & the man goes into the yard, & is promptly
> bitten by the dog! The man exclaims: "I thought you said that your dog
> doesn't 'bite'? " C. responds: " That is NOT my dog!".
>
> Sanderson says that their Block-huggers 'fit' 325 c.i. engines; they
> never said (although I'm SURE that I asked them!!) that their headers
> would 'fit' into an O.E.M.-type CAR!!
>
> btw, the Sonic-4's, & 2 1/4" pipes sound very "deep", & smooth, sorta
> loud (authoritative). my former
> 15+ y.o. muffs & 2" exhaust sounded 'higher'
> & "cammier" , but, mebbe not quite as "authoritative" , as the
> barrel-chested "sonics".
>
> Please contact Sanderson.
>
> Neil Vedder
> (I feel better, now)_
>
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