Not too long, not too short--Bassani's new Mid-Length headers may be just right for SOHC and DOHC modular owners looking to lose some unneeded backpressure. Posing for our lead photo is a prototype pair for Four-Valve applications that is close, but not identical, to production form. For this test, however, we installed and dyno'd the SOHC version (the pictured DOHC set went on the Mach 1 used in our April drag test). In the Bassani tradition, the material of choice is stainless steel with a high-temp coating, so you'll probably wear out your short-block before you wear out the headers.
Not only are these scavengers effective (as our dyno sidebar will detail), but they're also--at least as modular headers go--relatively straightforward to install. Paul Svinicki, who's had plenty of experience bolting headers onto cammers and whose yellow "Ignitor" GT we used for our testing, simply states, "These are the easiest modular headers we've ever installed."
With that said, here's a quick look at how they go on and how they perform.
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