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Alright. The vapor lock at a busy intersection is the last straw. With these 110+ degree days and uncoated long tube headers the car just is not happy. Engine is a 351w with an Edelbrock carb and 1" Phelonic spacer and electric fuel pump. Trans is an FMX. Power steering and manual brakes. I've eliminated all the other causes of vapor lock I was experiencing when I bought the car and am able to drive the car no problems in the cooler weather, but now it looks like its time to spend real money and fix the problem, hopefully, for good. I don't have a lot to throw at my car so I've been looking at the cheaper priced headers (yeah, no $1000 FPA headers) but want to know your experiences with them fitting on your cars. I'm down to three different sets from Flowtech, Hooker and Headman. They all appear to be the exact same design based off of Summits photos but that can be deceiving, with the only difference being that the Flowtech's primaries are 1 1/2" instead of the 1 5/8" of the other two. All of them claim to be "direct fit" but which ones really are the easiest to fit? I obviously don't want to beat the living :shit: out of them to make em fit or have headaches with hitting the power steering, tranny mounts, ect. This is my only car and while I don't drive often, I drive enough that I can't afford to have my car down for weeks on end trying to sort out fitment issues. Taking off my current ones, shipping them out and having them coated and sent back would cost more than just buying any of those headers so that is out of the question. So is header wrap for obvious reasons. Thanks in advance for any stories, good or bad, that you have.