allow me to join in the conversation if you will... i am "the indy cartel" and owner of the shop that has been building lynn's headers for about 2 years now. i would love to get on here and go "jersey shore" on this guy but im certain it will be used against me at some point so i am going to try and be as politically correct as possible.
the headers were built with the standard valve covers installed. not the fabricated ones he has now. ed had been sent pictures several times and i actually suggested that he bring his car out to us for us to do all the fab work on it as he had already had issues with his previous chassis shop. that didnt happen. the mockup car that was used has a stock front end on it such as a-arms etc... the headers were built to fit within those confines as thats all we were given to work with. as i stated above, he had been sent pictures and if there was any issue with the valve covers (after reading all of his other outlandish posts) dont you think he would have said something at some point? all i did was build him a set of headers and i would guess that i have 50-100+ emails from him with pictures and examples of other headers and intercooler placement and what not.
5-11-12 9:37 am; ed emailed me and asked if i could get him another flange as he was going to have his current shop rebuild the header to clear his new valve covers. weve been extremely busy in the shop and our mill has been covered up so i told him id have them cut at a laser shop just to get them out a little quicker. admittedly they did take a little longer to get done than i would have hoped but they were shipped out sometime around the middle of july and then came back with "insufficient address". we then shipped out another flange to him which he then posted pics on here awaring everyone that he received the flange.
no mention was ever made about being to fit a box end wrench on the bolts. HOWEVER... i did mention numerous times that we should go to smaller diameter tubing for clearance issues with the bolts and usually with turbo apps you run smaller anyways. but... here again, i have an email from "tom vaught" that ed forwarded me where he even suggests 1-7/8" tubing for the normal reasons for running smaller primaries with a turbo app. but... ed being the keyboard crewchief that he is still insisted on 2". well, there isnt much room when you put a 2" primary into this flange. the bolt holes are where the bolt holes are.
the headers had no problems bolting up to the heads that were in my shop that were used for mockup purposes and when lynn bolted them onto eds engine with eds heads (see pics a few posts below) but yet when they traveled up to NH they suddenly dont bolt up. maybe its a geographical thing?!?
all in all... look at the accomplishments of the handful of people that were involved in this build out here in the indiana area...
Cartel, LLC- (3) NHRA best engineered awards (1 of which was a snowmobile that beat out 2 brand new A/Hemi cars at last years dutch classic)
Lynn McCarty- several national records in SS
Tony Bischoff- national records, national event wins, class wins etc...
ill take myself out of the equation as im a little biased. but, how many of you really propose that you can have those kind of accomplishments if youre an asshole and do shotty work? not gonna happen.
flame away everyone.
