Jim Hanson
New Member
42 years ago, is when I first heard a set of the M/T Super Scavenger headers in a 68 big block Camaro and I have never forgotten that hollow pinging sound that came off from these headers and I fell in love with it. Fast forward 20 so years while working to rebuild my 72 Buick GS Stage 1 I came across the fact a national Buick club was reproducing Scavenger headers for big block Buick A-Bodies and purchased a set. Both life and family came along, and I needed to sell off the car and all its pieces never having the chance to start and hear the headers. This brings me to today with myself nearing the end of my 30+ year job career I decided start looking for a project car (69 Chevelle Malibu) as a gift to myself to work on and the first and foremost criteria of my project the headers in the car needed to be either and original or reproduced set of the M/T Super Scavenger headers. Doing some searching I got lucky and found a guy who lived quite near me (here in Hawaii) who had an extra set of Scavenger headers for a big block Chevelle. Have taking a look and later purchasing the headers from him, they are exactly what I was looking for, brand-new never have been bolted into an engine yet and to add to them the guy had them ceramic coated both inside and out. When I asked him where here had found and purchased the headers from, he said he bought them from a person out of Muncie Indiana. To my understanding this person has since sold all of his equipment and jigs to Sweat Avenue Fabrications in North Dakota. I have had a chance to speak to the owner at Sweat Avenue Fabrication, his verbal quotation for a set of his Scavenger headers similar to the set I purchased wasn’t cheap, about $2000 range.