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Has anyone put a pacesetter header on thier Midget (1500) and if so how hard was it? Did you hookup to your stock exhaust? I am looking into buying one.

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I am also interested.

I seem to recall that some folk weren't pleased with the fit of the pacesetter, but, I have no direct experience.

I'm curious about this one also

https://tinyurl.com/ygpddcs
 
I put a Pacesetter on my 1500 some years back.

The fit was terrible and I would have sent it back, but I was short on time (race coming up). So I cut it up and re-welded it.

Poor quality in my view.
 
I had a pacesetter on my 1500, and i installed one on a B this spring. I do not care for them. they both required machining of the sealing surface by a fair amount as they were horrible. And some tweaking of the bends to get them to fit good. When mounted on the B the outlet was pointed at the drivers headrest!

For my car i ended up scrapping the pacesetter and going with the 4-2-1 from APT https://www.aptfast.com/

That one on ebay looks pretty good and the price looks reasonable...


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It was this way going back to the 1970s. The Pacesetter stuff was cheap and aweful. APT and Seven had good headers. I'm not sure if Seven is still around any longer.
 
I also had issues with a Pacesetter for the 1275! Fit was terrible...much modifying to make it fit right!
 
I've got a Pacesetter on my 1098 and it doesn't fit very well. It's flanges are not the same thickness as the intake and since they share the same hold down bolts...that's a problem. I couldn't bring myself to grind down the intake to match a crappy exhaust. I think I might be better off getting on original exhaust manifold. I can't believe there's much if any difference in performance between the two.
 
That flange problem was the same one I had! I do think there is a noticeable difference between the stock unit and the header though (and certainly some weight-saving too!).
 
Yeah? You think it's worth it? Last time I had it apart I made some shims to add thickness to the Pacesetter flange. I still don't think it seals well. I've blown out the manifold gasket a few times already. Maybe I'll make that a winter thing, to make the Pacesetter fit. I was going to Vizardize the stock intake anyway.
 
I installed a Pacesetter on my 1275. I found the header flange thicker than the intake. I machined washers with a step to correct. About 1/16" if I remember correctly. Other than that, it fit just fine.
 
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