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RDMG
Dave R
Northern Virginia
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Main British Car:
1979 MGB 4.6L Rover V8

Interesting cast iron header for Rover/Buick v8s
Posted by: RDMG
Date: December 16, 2019 09:57AM

I recently bought a complete 4.0L v8 from a 1999 Land Rover Discovery, and these are the stock headers I removed from it:

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Note they aren’t mirror images of each other. The header on the right side is 4-into-2, with the 2-into-1 joint somewhere past the joint on the down pipe.

I’m thinking if you can find two Discos of that vintage, you could have a matched set.

I’m not sure if they would clear the outside edge of the MGB frame rails in an RV8 through-the-wings exhaust configuration, but I bet they would with a slightly wider Buick 300.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/16/2019 09:58AM by RDMG.


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