Custom Header Price

What is everyone paying now for a custom made set of headers? Doing nothing but paying the check? Ballpark figure is good. Don’t need to be your headers. Thanks

Tim Murphy at the Fab Shop quoted me $1500 to build a set for my Tbird. His headers are works of art! I hope to get a set someday

In the $600's for my cougar. But headmen did that and they didn't have the car, they had the dimensions though. Those were the third pair of headers for it and they STILL needed to be hammered and bent to fit.

I was quoted up $2000.00 for some headers to put a Boss 429 in a Torino. And they needed the car for a minimum of 5-7 working days. Stainless Steel





Tore

bb429power wrote:In the $600's for my cougar. But headmen did that and they didn't have the car, they had the dimensions though. Those were the third pair of headers for it and they STILL needed to be hammered and bent to fit.

Sorry, but a hammer and bending is not a custom header.

56Tbird wrote:Tim Murphy at the Fab Shop quoted me $1500 to build a set for my Tbird. His headers are works of art! I hope to get a set someday

I think that's a good price for those. Super nice headers and proven horsepower makers.

Curt wrote:

bb429power wrote:In the $600's for my cougar. But headmen did that and they didn't have the car, they had the dimensions though. Those were the third pair of headers for it and they STILL needed to be hammered and bent to fit.

Sorry, but a hammer and bending is not a custom header.

No we got custom headers made. They had to be customized even more because they weren't made too good. They were custom built by the company for our car though.

I've got a chassis guy in N Alabama set to do mine when he puts in the BBF motor plate mounts. He has a flat rate of $700 labor + materials cost. That's for uncoated. I will send them to Nitroplate for the coating.

bb429power wrote:

Curt wrote:Sorry, but a hammer and bending is not a custom header.

No we got custom headers made. They had to be customized even more because they weren't made too good. They were custom built by the company for our car though.

I will repeat

Curt wrote:Sorry, but a hammer and bending is not a custom header.

X2 on Tim @ The Fab Shop. Real nice guy and he does make works of art out of exhaust pipe. I bought the stuff to make my headers from him 2yrs ago, called him this summer when I started putting them together and he remembered selling me the stuff and helped me out quite a bit to get them together right. Definate service after the sale, and as has been said before, PROVEN power.

Curt I don't get what you are saying. Summit called up headmen headers and had them personally bend, weld, fab, and cut headers for our application. You can not get these headers off a shelf at all, they were only made for us, FROM SCRATCH! These were not hammered shelf headers if that is what your thinking.

There's some mis communication here. They were custom built from straight metal pipes and formed into headers.

56Tbird wrote:Tim Murphy at the Fab Shop quoted me $1500 to build a set for my Tbird. His headers are works of art! I hope to get a set someday

where is The Fab Shop???

bb429power wrote:Curt I don't get what you are saying.

I'm just saying, every header I have ever had built "custom", did not require a hammer. And, I havent always had dragsters.

Plus, I just busting you chops a little.

Larry Williams wrote:

56Tbird wrote:Tim Murphy at the Fab Shop quoted me $1500 to build a set for my Tbird. His headers are works of art! I hope to get a set someday

where is The Fab Shop???

The Fab Shop
968 S 600 W
New Palestine, Indiana 46163
317-294-4323
www.thefabshopheaders.com

Curt wrote:

bb429power wrote:Curt I don't get what you are saying.

I'm just saying, every header I have ever had built "custom", did not require a hammer. And, I havent always had dragsters.

Plus, I just busting you chops a little.

Oh, what I meant was that they were in fact custom headers. But they still didn't fit! So we took matters into our own hands (dad did). Don't try to work on a 69 cougar!

Larry Williams wrote:where is The Fab Shop???

968 S. 600 West
New Palestine,
Indiana 46163
317.294.4323

Curt wrote:

Larry Williams wrote:where is The Fab Shop???

968 S. 600 West
New Palestine,
Indiana 46163
317.294.4323

Beat you by a minute Curt!

Nevs wrote:

Curt wrote:

Larry Williams wrote:where is The Fab Shop???

968 S. 600 West
New Palestine,
Indiana 46163
317.294.4323

Beat you by a minute Curt!

he would have won that race, stomped you on the R/T!

Agreed! Plus he added the web site address. Thats what happens when you're distracted in the water box..... LOL

Thanks guys. I was quoted a price of $2,000 bucks for this engine which is higher than my last set (there also larger pipes) but the guy does awesome work. Drop off the car and you are ready to roll when you pick it up.

56Tbird wrote:Tim Murphy at the Fab Shop quoted me $1500 to build a set for my Tbird. His headers are works of art! I hope to get a set someday

the Fab shop quoted me 2300-2500 plus i would need to get them coated

Bill Mitchel (85montess) just did a set for my A460 fox body, give him a PM.

Tim at the Fabshop is way good too, he builds nice stuff.

John Holt Race Cars in Columbus does a great job also,around 600 /800 coated and ready to go.

I build custom headers in my shop. Plain MS, uncoated
are $1000 including material. I'll need the car for a week.
I do have a waiting list so reserve a time slot well in advance.

Rich

RK Racing
Aurora, IL