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FE Power Forums => FE Technical Forum => Topic started by: price5113 on November 14, 2013, 08:08:01 AM
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Anybody ever heard of Kustom brand headers? I take it they are out of business. Picked up a NOS set for our 70 F100 build. Looks like a nice pair of headers, in fact I have never seen a pair with 1 7/8" prim. tubes & 3.5" coll. before for a FE truck application. The box was the original and AllStar marked on the sides..........
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Kustom was a big supplier of various headers long ago and those L-88 style sidewinder pipes on older 'Vettes often came from Kustom.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss309/1967z28/Kustom-cover.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?topic%3D8001.0&h=464&w=404&sz=58&tbnid=2iv9QMbtT_WvcM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=78&zoom=1&usg=__QsddAaqEYlN0vKCj7ICZ8sgRtws=&docid=UC29Qs4oealb7M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bNWEUoyMLo_rkAfhtoDwCA&sqi=2&ved=0CEEQ9QEwBA
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Thanks for the cool link! Man that's going back a few years...........
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I have a set of Kustom headers on my Fairlane drag car. I had to buy them after I purchased the Hooker 6375's that I could not get to fit. This was in the early 70's. Still run them on the Fairlane. I can put them on and take them off by myself.
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Thats good to know. Sounds like they are a nice fitting header. They look well built/designed...............
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Anybody ever heard of Kustom brand headers? I take it they are out of business. Picked up a NOS set for our 70 F100 build. Looks like a nice pair of headers, in fact I have never seen a pair with 1 7/8" prim. tubes & 3.5" coll. before for a FE truck application. The box was the original and AllStar marked on the sides..........
Company was OK Kustom out of Midland or Mid-Michigan-ish. I long for a set for my LWG. I had them on my 63 390 Boxtop in the photo below:
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Love those "Box Tops"! That was my 1st car (63 Boxtop) Had Thorley headers on it. They did not fit all that well. Went to Hookers later which was better. I imagine finging a set of the Kustom tubes for a Galaxie is tough? Heres a shot of the truck peices...........
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Love those "Box Tops"! That was my 1st car (63 Boxtop) Had Thorley headers on it. They did not fit all that well. Went to Hookers later which was better. I imagine finging a set of the Kustom tubes for a Galaxie is tough? Heres a shot of the truck peices...........
My first Galaxie (second car I owned when I was 18yrs old) was a G-code with a LR427. It too had Thorley headers and fit perfectly. Your OK Kustoms are the first, and possibly only other ones I've seen.
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Very nice looking Galaxie! Were your Thorley headers conventional or 'try y' design? the set I used to run were the try y. As I remember there was a LOT of strg linkage interference even after I converted over to MAN strg linkage. Are you referring to my headers as the only truck versions you ever seen? I too had no idea they made truck headers!
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Mine were the conventional four into the collector. One tube interfered with the z-bar down arm, IIRC, and we simply dimpled that tube (had to do the same on the Hooker Super Comps). My set and your set, plus those I seen at OK Kustom, were the only ones I ever seen.