I have a 85 cutlass and am dropping a olds 350 in her. what are some decent headers that will fit without having to modify anything. i really dont want to dent the fenders or bend anything on her so if anyone knows a good brand and model i would really appreciate it. Also on my 350 i was going without the computer and smog setup. the carb is a 72 qjet and the distributor is a 76 hei. the problem i have is i dont know what to hook the wire harness that comes out of the distributor to. I looked to my 307 for advice but to my luck mine just happened to not be hooked up to anything(maybe that explains why the service engine light has been on this whole time i owned the car) i looked around and can not find the harness it went to. Any help will be great thanks.
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shorty74 said:
The best for a SBO would be American Racing Headers. However they are also the most expensive. But one thing I've found with headers, you get what you pay for.
My 2" primary Kook's headers dropped right in with my 455. However the cheap piece of junk Dynomax headers on my brother's 403 took all kinds of beating to get them in.
Kook's cost $600-$700
Dynomax were $75 (on sale)
There's no harness to hook up to a non CCC distributor other than the battery and tach leads. There should be a red/pink wire with a brown plug and a white wire with a white plug. The pink wire is 12v and the white wire is the tach lead.
Oh, and there should be another black plug that come directly out of the distributor. These all plug into the cap on the drivers side.
A cheaper alternative to Kooks/DMR headers, would be hedman, I had very good luck with these being a direct fit, absolutely no hammers or tweaking involved, and they are relitively cheap (160 ish?). I was able to put them in with the engine still in the car (up through the bottom, starter and oil filter adapter removed). Stay away from flowtech, they used to fit 10 years ago, but they must have reworked their jigs and now aren't even close to fitting, not even with hammer adjustments 
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Oldsmoletick said:Stay away from flowtech, they used to fit 10 years ago, but they must have reworked their jigs and now aren't even close to fitting, not even with hammer adjustments
and if you wonder why they don't fit look who's making them now...
http://www.gasgoo.com/showroom/jemina/p ... 27-350-400
Did I read that right "Ningbo"?????? 
They used to be a holley/mr gasket/hooker/etc brand at one point, lol.
They used to be a holley/mr gasket/hooker/etc brand at one point, lol.
Flowtech is still owned by Holley. The way they went around buying everyone up, I don't think they would sell any of them off unless they really had to.
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