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If you are looking for headers, we are not making headers or taking orders for headers at this time.

However, if you can weld (or have buddies 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 a header 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!

 

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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, mudracers, etc.

 

Along the way, I also had started deepening oil pans for local racers and even purchased a 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!

 

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Website.  The first HEADERS BY "ED" website was published 3/31/98.  Now, about 11 years later, I'm "unleashing" this "much anticipated" (ha!) and much-needed website revision.  Actually, I think the revision has turned out quite decent as it encompasses much newer technology relative to website design, contains a few extra "bells and whistles", yet 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 - although I am trying!). 

 

The writings (by me) are still VERY critical (maybe even more so now that I am also 11 years older) 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 done.  Some areas simply couldn't be completed on time or brought over from the old website without adding a lot more delay and delaying publishing past mid-March made no sense.  Under construction signs will be posted around the website for months. The unfinished areas involving parts will be completed first.  The writings - many from the old website - will be updated.  Many comment pages are minimally done and are more representative of a "wish list" of what I want to comment on in the near or far distant future.  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 more about headers, I hope you will purchase my HEADER DESIGN INFOPAK.

 

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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!

 

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

 

Thanks for reading this, Ed Henneman

 

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