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Old Aug 19, 2020 | 08:02 PM
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I have a 1992 F-150 swapping out the 302 to 351w.
my question is will shorty headers mate up to the stock exhaust? I've been looking at some less expensive headers. As I blew my budget on the engine build and swap.
Thanks for your advice.
 
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Truck headers will mate to a truck Y pipe, but you have to widen your Y pipe now regardless.
 
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Originally Posted by Conanski
Truck headers will mate to a truck Y pipe, but you have to widen your Y pipe now regardless.
Thanks for the info. I follow alot of your threads on this site, as well as Google search. I respect your knowledge on theses trucks
 
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BTW.. the Y pipe only needs about 1" extra width and the easy way to do it is to cut right where it loops under the engine/trans and add the section there. You could also source a factory 5.8 Y pipe from the JY if on a tight budget, I believe the 5.8 version uses a little bigger diameter tube as well.
 
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