Longtube header install, part one.

[Grand Marquis GT]

Ok, I started with a set of dynomax headers for a 351M truck.

Got em free, so I aint bitchin.

So far, mods needed:

Hammering. Lots of it.
Cutting.
And when I get to it on the drivers side, welding.
Oh. and I gotta redrill the block flanges to match the 302 bolt pattern. Shouldnt be hard.

Here is the difference. Anyone who cant get the bolts off, use a LOT of PB blaster, and go right after em.

[sploer4.0]

good luck mangggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!

[grandpaslincoln]

Get those bitches on there mang!!!

[Southern_Pride]

Good luck. Youll need it.

[grandpaslincoln]

I didn't think those would fit, they seem too damn long

[zwack88]

Wow I hope you can get them to work. So those are the stock manifolds off your 200K+ mile motor? You didn't break a bolt? You are good mang! If it was that easy I would get a set of shorties for my vic but a guy one at C%N that did a swap and he busted like 2 bolts off in the block. I don't know if he used PB Blaster first though.

[DuceAnAHalf]

im thinking that those are going to hit the crossmember.


See the way the tubes are swept back. the driver side still comes very close to the frame.

See here how close the #8 is to the frame.


here you can see where the frame sits in relation to the primaries on the passenger side.



Again notice where the primaries sit in relation to where the motor mount bolts up. and then look at yours , they drop pretty close to iot.

[Grand Marquis GT]

We shall see.

I don't give up so easily.

[DuceAnAHalf]

oh they can be made to work, just will require a bit more work than if they were for a Fox .

[Blaze86Vic]

I agree, they will need to be modified to go around the cross member. Looks like them things go so far down as to parallel the oil pan.

[phayzer5]

Just use a bigger hammer

[Grand Marquis GT]

If they don't work, I could always call hedman and ask if they make a header for our cars

[Lincolnmania]

hey you know guys they make longtubes for the 302 1972-1979 torino based cars........i have said this before and i will say it again i believe those would be a direct fit

[Grand Marquis GT]

I may buy some then... Anyone got a pic of under the hood of a torino?

[85MercPark]

If they don't work, I could always call hedman and ask if they make a header for our cars