Anybody Remember the Mickey Thompson Super Scavenger Headers

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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.
 
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and a extensive set of the correct tools would help

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Mickey /Thompson Super Scavenger Headers ,N.O.S.
Fit, Pontiac 1961/64
Engine, 389 and 421
part # 202-14
Tube Dia , 1”5/8
Collecter, 3”
These are original N.O.S. Mickey/Thompson Headers
Had them for 25+ years ,will sell them for $3.000 usd +shipping
or am just going to hold on to them.
I can go to my storage and take more pictures if someone wants more.
 

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could you clarify the asking price, is that $3.00 or $3,000.00 plus shipping
 
There's an interesting SpeedTalk thread on them, with UDHarold of all people, also having had a set of them.

The story on there is that Mickey Thompson was commissioned by Buick to develop headers for one of their engines and he worked hard to keep them equal-length but the power was down because of all the twists and turns to keep them equal so he cut many of the pipes off ahead of each twist and turn and then made the weird long rectangle collector and power was back up again.


A good story highlighting the relative unimportance of equal length headers and the primary importance of nice large diameter "swoopy" bends, IMHO.



Adam
 
I have never heard them on an engine but I read about them in pops collection of hotrod magazines 1950-1967. Went through reading every article as a teenager and still have the whole collection, great nostalgia reading every so often.
 
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