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FYI on Speedway flanges… they happened to be 3/8” thick. Their listing does say 5/16” but the ones I just purchased and had shipped are exactly 3/8”. Look to be well made but anyone else use the flanges from Speedway also? S 
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Joe, I don’t think the Thunderbird headers will clear the motor mounts on a passenger car. They also have a welded mount on the header that picks up the “steady rest” side bars. It’s all damn tight installed, and the oil filter is a b.cth to change.
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I’m having them water jetted locally from stainless to work with a pair of stainless small block scruby t-bucket style headers for my Model A hot rod build. Should be done in the next few weeks. bought a pair of flanges on eBay a couple of years ago for another header build I did but they were mild steel. Worked ok. MIKE
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Bruce Young of Y Block Magazine used to make flanges, If there is enough interest, I can make a few sets, ether round tube or square.
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miker (8/11/2021)
This info is 10 years old, so something might have changed. I bought the flanges for my roadster from Stan’s Headers in Auburn. At that time he produced them, and I believe he also built the FPA bird headers to their design. They happen to be located between me and my mothers house, so I drive by them a couple times a week. 2 different “Stan’s” http://www.stans-headers.com/ looks like $168 a pair for the Flanges...
I will contact him as well though.
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Has anyone actually tried to fit a pair of FPA headers into any other chassis? I don't see why they would not work in a car. They are really close to the engine. It has been a long time since I had a '56 Fairlane, but there can't be a whole lot of difference in those engine bays between the '55-'56-'57 cars and 'birds. Just a thought. Joe-JDC
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I've contacted FPA about truck headers several times. Each time they say not enough interest to produce and they can make a custom set but it is prohibitively expensive, both understandable. I imagine it would be the same for anything but the T-Bird headers they produce. It doesn't help with this thread but I also asked if I could buy just the tubes for the T-Bird headers so I could modify as necessary. They wouldn't do that, either. What were the Red's Headers that Gary brought to the shootout and handed to Ted for testing? They are for some passenger car application.
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