Phone Order Hours:  1 PM - 5 PM Central Daylight Savings Time
Mon-Thurs (closed Fri-Sun).

Business Hours over the next two weeks are going to be a little different:
CLOSED Thursday, September 2nd;
OPEN 12 PM-5 PM Friday, September 3rd;
CLOSED Tuesday, September 7th through Wednesday, September 15th (Vacation).
  

In the "It's hard to believe but it's true" department:
The "My Old Dodge" at the top of this page was run at the Minnesota Street Rod Association's fifth annual 2010 Super Secret Fun Run (SS/FR) the weekend of August 27th through the 29th at Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd, Minnesota (northern Minnesota).

Assembled as a "driver" type car - definitely NOT a race car - but with strict attention paid to maximizing bottom end and mid-range performance (headers as well as other areas), on Sunday (the 29th), we heard comments that somebody thought they had seen daylight under the front tires on a launch!  A couple of runs later, it was announced over the track's PA system that, on the last run, the front tires had come off the track about 3" at the start of that run!

If there was ANYTHING we NEVER expected to see happen with this car (3830# - with driver and using a stock - but retuned - 350" port injected small block Chev RamJet 350 crate engine) was to see it lift the front tires off the ground!!!
Go to the My Old Dodge page for more discussion?

	STAINLESS STEEL SALE We've put our all of our 304 Stainless Steel J-Bends & Collectors on sale! Look further down on the left side of this page for further information and links.
	If you are looking for completed headers, we are not making headers nor taking orders for headers at this time.  We will be accepting header orders after September 1st but don't contact us about headers until then.     Our TRUE Equal Length (all tube lengths held under +/- 1/2" tolerance with most tube lengths under +/- 1/4") header designs are limited to about 30 different V8 U.S.-made cars from 1955 through the mid-70s. We do NOT make Stainless Steel headers - all of our headers are made with Mild Steel components.  We do NOT make four or six cylinder headers.  We do NOT make engine swap headers (if your engine and chassis combination wasn't assembled in a factory, don't call us).  We do NOT make headers for foreign-made vehicles nor do we make headers for vans or trucks - except for Vertical Exit designs for pulling and mud racing).  There is NO listing of available headers on this website at this time (sorry!) but can be found in our HEADER DESIGN INFOPAK.
	However, if you can weld (or have friends that can weld that might help you), we STRONGLY encourage you to think about building your own headers.  The odds are very much in your favor that, with our Header Design Advice and the header parts we offer, you should be able to BUILD headers BETTER than any you can buy.  We're not kidding!  The information contained in this website as well as in our available HEADER DESIGN INFOPAK will show you how that is possible.  We even offer HEADER KITS to make the purchasing of header parts easy!
	Presently you can not order anything directly off this website.  This is not an omission on our part because we often find we are asking questions and/or making suggestions when taking orders over the phone and NOT being able to talk to our customers would not only greatly increase ordering errors but also deny our customers the possibility of further improving the success of their upcoming projects.    (Unlike other companies, when you call HEADERS BY "ED" to place an order, you get to talk to someone that actually designs headers as well as fabricates them and is capable of giving you some REALLY GOOD and REALLY ACCURATE advice.  Many times our advice helps customers not only "squeeze" more performance out of their engines but often saves them time and money by preventing them from making ordering or design choice mistakes.  Keep in mind that this type of advice "help" is NOT available from anyone else!)

The prices on this website are current and we do not expect them to change until 11/30/10 at the very earliest.

To get you up to speed as to what's been going on here:

Business History.  Condensing the business's history considerably, the first set of HEADERS BY "ED" was built on the very car at the top of this page, by me, in 1962 when I was approaching my 21st birthday. 

The first few years of the business involved doing "pure" custom header work (vehicles were brought into the shop and I built headers on them). 

Due to problems with local dealers not willing to invest in inventory, I soon became a distributor (and reseller) of various header parts.  As the years passed, I started making many of the parts I previously bought from others and also worked with outside suppliers to make parts to my specifications and, in the process, developed many new and, I believe, better parts based on my experiences gained not only by DESIGNING and BUILDING BETTER headers but also by helping others build their own BETTER headers.

In 1966 I decided to get away from doing pure custom header work and designed the first set of HEADERS BY "ED" - for the '62-'67 Small Block Nova - where I built header jigs off the finished headers so that I could make and ship headers to others elsewhere.  That change of direction in the business also initiated magazine advertising.

In 1974 I started to offer Vertical Exit HEADERS BY "ED" for pullers, mud racers, sand draggers, etc.

Through this time period, I also had started deepening oil pans for local racers and even purchased a Sun distributor machine and recurved a lot of distributors for local customers too.  At one point HEADERS BY "ED" even offered a complete cylinder head service!

Website.  The first HEADERS BY "ED" website was published 3/31/98.  The second (and considerably improved) version that you are now looking at was published in March 2009.  This new version encompasses much newer technology relative to website design, contains a few extra "bells and whistles", and also addresses many concerns and comments expressed by customers and friends over the years (but the reduction of my excessive verbiage has not exactly been accomplished).  It also addresses and/or eliminates a number of concerns that I had with the first website.

The writings (by me) are still VERY critical (maybe even more so now that I am also 12 years older since the first website appeared) and thus might be considered offensive to those with differing points of view.  However, the comments are based on works accomplished as well as observations made over a near 50 year period of time.  I offer these comments to you in the context that you are sincerely concerned about making your particular vehicle PERFORM as well as possible and appreciate getting "good" as well as "straight" advice (even if it might be a little disconcerting at times). 

The website is FAR from being done and probably will never be REALLY done as I don't have the time to work on it continually.  (I only get paid for the work I do in the shop.  Unlike others who get paid for creating and updating websites, I get NOTHING for all of the time and work this website represents). 

The website has two basic "sides" - a "parts" side that deals with what we offer to you as a potential customer and an "information" side that presents header and performance related discussion that I feel you should be aware of.  Some areas of this "newer" website simply could not be completed on time or brought over from the old website without adding a lot more delay and delaying publishing past mid-March 2009 made no sense.  Under construction signs will be posted around this website for months but will disappear as pages are finished or reach a point where I feel somewhat satisfied with their content (I am seldom really "satisfied" with anything as I see room for improvement almost everywhere I look and I'm not just talking about this website!!!!!!).  Some comment pages - moved over from the old website - will be updated.  Other comment pages are minimally done and are more representative of a "wish list" of what I want to discuss as time allows in the near (or far distant) future.  Some pages (Ramblings, for example) will be added to continually due to their more general nature.  Please be patient if something excites your curiosity and then you find out that I've only addressed the subject minimally or not at all - because that page is marked under construction. 

Also - if you want to learn even more about headers, I hope you will purchase my HEADER DESIGN INFOPAK.  It will also help you understand how IMPORTANT good header design really is (a subject definitely NOT discussed in car magazines!).

Magazines.  If you believe that car magazines are perfect - that they NEVER make mistakes, that they contain information ONLY written by equally performance-concerned individuals that are supremely informed as well as experienced, and have NO secondary or tertiary agendas - you might NOT want to expose yourself to the thoughts contained herein.  Remember - you have been warned!

In conclusion, my business has been around for a LONG time, has been VERY involved in the overall performance area - not just making things out of tubing - and is quite capable of helping you buy or build considerably BETTER HEADERS.

Thanks for reading this, Ed Henneman

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