Bossman's 66 Impala

[BOSSMAN]

After a long wait finally getting some color on the car. Back to the factory Lemonwood Yellow.

[jerrythomas]

this fairly much delivers me to the existing day. I have some back revocation perform to complete up, areas are seated here looking at me to get to perform.

[BOSSMAN]

Sure, whatcha need?

[hussler]

Bossman you still out there, need your help

[BOSSMAN]

Haha.

[Scott Liggett]

Easier, faster, cheaper.

Here is what I did. It starts about halfway down the page.
http://www.bangshift.com/forum/showt...k-Betty/page49

If I don't get the blog finished this weekend. I'm telling Brian it's your fault.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Easier, faster, cheaper.

Here is what I did. It starts about halfway down the page.
http://www.bangshift.com/forum/showt...k-Betty/page49

and stronger. brazing is pretty, but it looks like he heats the entire flange and brazes like you'd solder a copper pipe. If he's old school, that would make sense because Mig didn't come into vogue until the 70s.... and then there were lots of brittle welds - thus tons of cracking.

[patrickth]

I've been following a thread over on Yellowbullet about this year of car and those guys have been making me want to get more motivated to get back to work on it. I've posted alot about my car in this thread.
http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=198120

Thanks for the heads up. Bookmarked it after about 10 pages. Lots more to go.

[Scott Liggett]

That rings a bell, though I see alot welded these days.

Easier, faster, cheaper.

Here is what I did. It starts about halfway down the page.
http://www.bangshift.com/forum/showt...k-Betty/page49

[BOSSMAN]

That rings a bell, though I see alot welded these days.

[Scott Liggett]

Cause he is old school and a master of his trade! There was reasoning behind it but I don't remember at the moment. I wish I could braze like that.

I think its because brazing is lower heat and less likely to warp the flange.

There tons of room on the passnger side for large to jumbo sized stepped headers. Its the drivers side that gets interesting. The drivers side on my car took more than double the time to design and I only have 1 3/4".

[BOSSMAN]

Cause he is old school and a master of his trade! There was reasoning behind it but I don't remember at the moment. I wish I could braze like that.

[SuperBuickGuy]

why does he braze the tubes to the flange?

[BOSSMAN]

Well, those are actually 2" stepped to 2 1/8" so I was willing to spend the money cause I wanted to know how the hell they could get it all to fit. Other people were asking $2500 - $3000 for what I was after. I will be fabricating my own now that I will have better resources and a nice place to do it. FYI, the 67-69 Camaro & 68-72 Nova headers are the same except for one tube that gets rerouted. I have a smaller set that I will be changing that are 1 7/8".

[Scott Liggett]

Actually I only have 1 5/8 with 2 1/2" exhaust on the 406 SBC currently, all I could find to get it going. I had Stahl make me a new set for one of my bigger motors but that set me back $1800! You are really limited for headers on these cars.

I talked to Stahl when I went looking for a bigger set of headers for my '65 Impala. My bank account couldnt handle it. I didnt have the tools or.the talent to fab up a set from scratch either. My solution was somewhat "unique".