F355 Headers by Stainless Headers

Keith you are correct John(Giovanni) from G & A in E. Longmeadow. He has another one in there now that he is working on. Give him a call. John is a great guy, great to deal with also. He works on some of my other cars as well.

 

Johnny, I had spoke to Chris a little while ago, and he said that they were very busy so what you are stating makes sense. The price of the 321 went up a little, but it looks like Chris decreased the price for modifying the heat shields.

 

Your welcome Keith. I am happy with the work that he had done on mine.

 

I recently read a post by Drock about Stainless Headers header offerings so I contacted Chris Stepp. He told me that he sold the fabrication part of his business to Zack and Kevin, two fabricators that worked for him. Zack built my headers and did the modifications to my heat shields. Their company is GP Headers. I asked Zack what type of s/s they are going to use. They are building them in 321 s/s for $2200. They are going to reuse the parts that they can such as the flange that bolts to the heads.


Ferrari 355 Headers

 

You are correct.

 

I don't want to put any words in Zack's mouth but I got the sense that he still might be open to the idea of putting the clam shells back on if the customer really wanted them, although I could be wrong on this. I just got that impression from our conversation.

 

I don't know about that. They have built more headers than just mine, but how exact they are compared to mine, I have no idea.

 

To put things into perspective. No other header mfg. big or small is offering a 4-2-1 header built in 321 s/s let alone 304 s/s for that price. When I was looking for a company to build my headers the next closest quote was ~ $5000 from a quality builder. Two other places gave me quotes that started at $6500 and up for 321 s/s. One bigger company would build them for ~$7500 in 316 s/s. That was just for the headers. There was no mention from these other companies about coming with a coating or any type of heat shield.

 

They are not offering a fully rebuilt header, just the primary tubes. The original collector is still used along with OEM flanges. I think they do a nice job. I did not want a partially rebuilt header. I wanted the whole header retubed(primary tubes and collector). I had emailed a very nice gentleman at JP Exhaust about doing this, they seemed interested in my request but I ended up going with Stainless Headers in the end. JP was my next option.

 

Greg, whatever risk there was I felt was worth it. I had read tons of header threads over the years, before I had ever even owned my car. The general consensus was if someone could build an OEM header with proper shielding and better materials that was relatively affordable that would be a win-win situation for the owners. I spoke with and emailed quite a few different companies before I settled on one. I had heard about Stainless Headers from a gentlemen on the GT40's site who was very pleased with their work. His GT40 was hand built to exact specifications in Europe(not cheap) so if he was happy, I wasn't to worried. Chris seemed up for the challenge. I told him exactly what I was looking for and why and he met my requests. They are a stand up company so that took some of the risk and fear out of the picture.

As stated previously Zack is the one who built my headers and is now one of the owners of GP Headers.

As far as the cats I ended going with Evoflow(Prospeed Prestige). Brian Dinn is or was a sponsor on here is the owner. The price was reasonable. The product looked to be nicely made so I took a chance.