Their address and Phone # is  Sanderson Headers   517 Railroad ave.   S. San Francisco  Ca.  94080-3450  PH: 650-583 4590       ask for Jay the shop forman.                    

Mark, are you pleased w/the T-bird headers they made you... are they one-off's or did they make a pattern... were any chassie or equipment mods required... and lastly (sorry for so many Q's), did you consider/compare to the Sanderson's or the FPA's?

I'm close to writing the check, but am still on fence between the Sanderson's (performance report Ted did looks good, and they're cheaper) and the FPA's (more traditional and the plumbing appears less complicated).

Thanks for any reply... Brian

For T Bird applications

Before you let your pricing point make a decision about your headers,consider some of these thoughts.

None of the Sanderson headers are equal length whereas the FPA design is.

The Sanderson design is not firing order specific.I have an eMail into FPA about this and am waiting an answer to see if the FPA design is so.

Coatings are availiable on the FPA design-more money.

I have not looked into anything other than the FPT 55-57 T Bird part.

The FPA product was not included in the test.I believe that only a few have this product on this Forum so unfortunatly it was not included in the testing.

Depending ENTIRELY upon what sort of engine you are building,the Sanderson units would be better than the stock factory exhaust.

The FPA units would be a better choice for a higher revving,more modified machine and I believe would show an improvement over the Sandersons in that area if price is not a real concern and preformance is.

I"m going with the FPA design for my T Bird.

Oldmics

http://www.fordpowertrain.com/FPAindex/Tbird1.htm

and also

http://www.fordpowertrain.com/FPAindex/headers2.htm

Oldmics

$695.00 plain (not ceramic coated) and as mentioned above $895.00 coated.

$55.00 shipping

Still dont know if they are firing order specific or not

Oldmics

       In many cases they do. They try to fit the pipes so they enter the collector in a rotational sequence. The idea being to exhaust in a circular manner. I wonder if that's worth the trouble, other than a Marketing story.

Pegleg,

I think the idea is to create a vortex. In fluid dynamics this is said to flow more effectively than a straight directional flow.

The question is which way is the correct swirl direction? The recognized southern hemisphere swirl direction or that other hemisphere.

cheers

Warren

Charlie / Frank / Warren.  The 4 into 1 headers on my altered have what I call the ‘gattling gun’ collectors where the firing pulses into the collectors are rotational as being described.  When I was originally building the headers, I was torn between having one side firing clockwise and the other firing counter clockwise or both sides rotating the same direction.  I settled on a clockwise firing into both collectors (looking forward at the back of the vehicle) as it was opposite of the crankshaft rotation.  Hard to say if it helps at all but at the time it seemed to be the logical thing to do.  Being clockwise firing into the collectors, would these headers work better in Austrailia than in the northern hemisphere?

Here’s a picture of the headers.

As Wayne brings up, those FPA headers for the ‘Birds looks similar in design to the Maxton Mile headers that were just tested.  Since doing the exhaust tests, I’ve come across another set of headers that I’d like to see tested on the dyno mule before changing out the heads for some cylinder head testing that is forthcoming.  With that in mind, if there are any other headers that can be sent to me such as the Speedway or FPA headers, then I can run those at the same time.  I’ve got about a 3 week window before the cylinder head testing takes place which will permit some additional exhaust testing to take place with the same engine combination that was used in the ‘exhaust test to end all tests’.  If there are some of these headers laying loose or some other unique header design that’s different from what has already been tested and you’d like to loan them for a quick test, just give me a shout.  Contact info is at www.eatonbalancing.com   .

Another option, although remote, is FPA and/or Speedway donating or loaning headers to add to the test data already accumulated.  I’ve too much on my plate to pursue this but if someone else is willing to make the calls and explain the case, I’ll be happy to take calls from the manufacturers to discuss doing the testing along with the other headers that will be tested.  Just forewarn me if this indeed looks like it might happen.

    I still have the F code brackets, pulleys and bonnets. John has the timing cover and will probably wind up with the water pump. We haven't pushed it, the heads took priority. 

Has anyone taken thier 56 passenger to Sandersons or is anyone aware of someone who has.

It seems a good opportunity to add to the parts list.

Cheers and thanks

Warren

Should have some pics in the next couple days.