Hooker Sidepipe Insert Update

[andrewmckernon]

JCLs or Powersticks?

I'm getting the whole hooker setup this summer. What is the best option both for sound and performance? The JCLs or the Powersticks?

andrew

 

[Sky65]

I'm getting the whole hooker setup this summer. What is the best option both for sound and performance? The JCLs or the Powersticks?

I don't kniow about the JCLs. Never used them. I only know my small block runs much better with the Powersticks than the Hooker inserts and I really like the sound. It is low and throaty. I started it up next to some young guys with a decked out Honda the other day. They were all smilles and "Ohhhh yeahhhhh" instantly. The powersticks do require some modification to install but it was worth the time to me.

Sky

 

[66 Red Rocket]

Hooker Side Pipe Inserts

I put in a set of Powersticks in my bb 66, 3" core with 3 7/8 to 3" reducers cut from 4" to 3" hooker reducers. I used header wrap too reduce the sidepipe temperature( it worked great). I just returned from Crusin The Coast in Bolixi and they work great, a little loud and when the secondaries open it is looooud. I was using stainless works 2 1/2 tubes packed w/#4 stainless steel wool. They were quiter but had to repack them every other year. The Powersticks don't pop when you back off the throtle and if you are running a lot of camshaft you can't keep it a secret. John

 

[Ol Blue]

I used to run inserts in the Kustom sidepipe headers on my 63 before changing to Heddman sidepipe headers feeding the factory units.

To facilitate getting the inserts out, I had a quarter inch rod welded across the inlet. It allowed me to hook one end of a chain to the insert and to something solid (tree, truck trailer hitch, etc) and after spraying WD40-type stuff on it and few good yanks on the sidepipe, the insert would come out.

Ol Blue

 

[66 Red Rocket]

I have found the easy way to remove incerts from side pipes. Take a piece of 4" x 4" and drop or almost throw down the side pipe (header opening side) on too the 4" x 4" and the incert comes out, Just nake sire the side pipe is vertical or you could bend it. A long threaded rod woth a 3.5" washer will work also. John

 

[66 Red Rocket]

sorry about the spelling, with my fat fingers and those little keys being so close together, nake = make & sire = sure

 

[Sky65]

I get lots of smiles when I drive by with the Hooker sidetubes and Powersticks. They really do sound good. You can still have a conversation in the car as well, if you keep your foot out of it.

Oh yeah.
Set off my first car alarm about a month ago. Something made me drive around the block and do it again.....

 

[bossvette]

Oh yeah.
Set off my first car alarm about a month ago. Something made me drive around the block and do it again.....

you mean I'm not the only one who does it?
My wife gets annoyed when I drive by the second time

 

[Sky65]

Gotta love it!!!!

 

[bossvette]

you probably run into more car alarms back east then I do out here, the last time I took the 76 back to NJ we took a ride to Princeton and went down a small side street setting off a slew of alarms; when I made a point to go back down the same street again my wife said "why do you always have to do that?"

I used to do the same thing with my Sportster with shorty pipes.

 

[Sky65]

Yeah. I know the sportster routine as well. Riding Ducati now. The carbon fiber Forza cans sound real nice on the 851 with the tach up at nine grand.

What is it about cars, bikes and exhaust note? Sometimes I find myself working the throttle and shifer to get the sound I want. "Playing" the exhuast like an instument. Crank it up and shift as fast as I can...short shift at low rpm and stomp on the gas...turn the idle down as low as I can to get the rumpity rump.
I'm sick aren't I.....