Lakes Headers

[409T]

Does anyone have any experience with headers from these guys http://www.lakeheaders.com/Home.html ?

If so, do you know if these http://www.lakeheaders.com/BAFFLES.html make them sound tinny?

 

[Screaming Metal]

Well, I never tried them personally, but I have installed baffles the look just exactly like theirs....I'm pretty well deaf but the I-6 that I just sold had a set of lake pipes I fabbed up and ran a baffle similar to that from Speedway.
Tried bolting it in, all the guys in the shop shook their heads 'no'. Wrapped some packing around it, they still said 'no'.
Then I wrapped some abestos, then some fiberglass sheet, then some more abestos. Did 3 layers of each wrapped tightly, then used SS wire to start going around all that packing, and I wound it, and wound it....looked like a strain relief for a cord. Fired her up, all the guys gave me a thumbs up....

I believe that the packing has to be tightly packed and dense. The only other sound that they said sounded good was the fiberglass matting wrapped with, yes, I'm not kidding, heat wrap. One of the Numb skulls ordered a ass load of the wrong stuff, I said keep it, stuff like that comes in handy. I was wrapping the baffles in the 392 before I sold it, they said it sounded good.

Gotta remember that this comes from a person that has been around the staging lanes with Altereds and FC's screaming off the line for the better part of 25 years. I'm almost legally deaf, enough so I have a working dog around to keep me outta trouble.

 

[Screaming Metal]

I went and tried to find that part #.... my mistake, they were the Lime Fire baffles from CarChemistry. I had Tig'ed the baffle to a insert that just slide up inside the pipe, using the included collector flange. I TIG'ed the baffle to a piece I made that was the same dia. and same taper as my pipes, then I got my 4 1/2 grinder with a flap wheel and rounded the collector flange so it would fit in exactly agianst the output side of the baffle then I gave it 4 heavy duty tacks, fastening it to the baffle.
I slide it up in the pipe, 2" in from the end, drilled my holes to put my bolts on.
As you looked from the end, the exhause came thru the center hole, where the perforated tube is located, but also, I welded that collecter flange to the baffle, I also used my plasma to cut out those 3 flange holes.
So, looking up into my pipes, I had 2 headers, 3 cylinders ea., you hade a center hole, then, 3 smaller holes close to the edge of the diameter of the baffle.

Hey, it sounded good, like a pair of big diameter CherryBombs.

 

[tfeverfred]

Patriot Exhaust came out with a set of Lake headers that don't have the down tube. The had an advertisement in last months Rod & Custom, BUT they aren't on thier website yet. I never called them because I can't afford them...YET. Anyway, they looked good and probably use the same baffle as thier other headers. The ones that just about everyone uses.

I do know this, if you get them, get some kind of baffle. I knew a guy that ran them straight and you could hear his car a mile away! Way too loud for the street.

 

[Screaming Metal]

http://www.carchemistry.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=107

http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com...emistrys_lakes_style_header_baffle/index.html

 

[409T]

Thanks guys. I'm going to do just as you both suggested.