Different kind of headers I saw in an old Mustang

I saw an older mustang, 64-65 model. He had the same shock tower we have, but his headers were front two pipes combined, and back two pipes combined, then collected after they cleared the shock towers. Basically, the front two pipes collected in front of the tower, and the rear two pipes collected behing the tower, then the front collected pipe connected with the rear collected pipe about where the 4-way collector would normally be, behind the tower. This gave lots of room and there was not pipes anywhere near the towers. Easy to get to the sparkplugs, etc.

Also, they looked stainless. Does anyone know if these would fit the mav and where to get them.

I should have taken a picture. I might if he is still at the shop tomorrow.

 

Well, Mustang towers are farther apart than Maverick towers, so the same headers usually wont fit. The headers you saw are called Tri-Y headers, and there is a set made for the Maverick, Summit carries a set from Thorley. I only ever found them doing a search on just they keyword Maverick, would bring up 2 or 3 pages of stuff total, including those headers.

 

How are they performance-wise compared to Hookers or Hedman? They appeared to be fairly small diameter at the heads.

 

I beleive graybeard is running a set of musyang tri-ys on his maverick give hime a pm.

 

i got my mav home sunday!started measuring my motor and shock towers fe motors don't fit into mavericks do they?then my upper shop caught fire so now i am sidelined until i figure out where i am going to build my car.those headers sound interesting wqhat size motor did it have?

 

They are usually 1-1/2 primaries, so they don't breathe as well as good aftermarket headers.

 

not without a little help

 

are mustang 2 sub frame kits the best way to do this.maybe i will just go small parts are much cheaper.

 

I've heard they scavange very well plus have a unique sound. I am going to use them on my daughters 302 Maverick but it's gonna be real mild.
clint

 

The mustang I saw was early, 64 or 65, that body model. It looked like the 289 or a 302 swap. Very similar to what I am running, by looking at the outside. 1 1/2 primaries sounds about right, it looked smaller than what you typically see in headers. It would probably work for my current motor, but not as well after new heads and further building.

 

I though some one was reproducing the Tri-y's with bigger primary's?