Fenton exhaust headers

[larryyano]

Any info on these? I picked them up recently and I think they are Stude V8, maybe 232.

[Flashback]

yep ,,look like 232,, wanna sell them,,pm me

[sals54]

THose are pretty cool. Does not appear that they would be much of an improvement over stock, but the KOOOOOL factor is off the charts. Awesome find.

[candbstudebakers]

they don't look like they fit a Studebaker with end ports on such an angle bolt holes don't line up either.

[tsenecal]

Right you are, about the bolt holes. I was thinking Flat head ford with Siamese center port, but they have a cast in generator mount. I can't think of anybody that made a V6 that long ago. I have several flat head fords, but haven't gone out to look at the bolt configuration on the end ports.

[jrlemke]

Might be Olds or Caddy?-Jim

[Lynn]

Looks like they would bolt to a Pontiac V8, but most of those exit more toward the rear, not that close to the middle.

[Studebakercenteroforegon]

I guess we won’t know for sure until they are placed next to a 232 head.
Quite a bit of speed equipment was made for the 232 V-8. I particularly remember similar looking cast iron exhaust manifolds made by Belond.

[StudeRich]

That's amazing, they look like what the R3 collector Design was copied after!

Of course they have very small Ports for a small displacement engine like a 232.
I think Bob may be right, they may not be Stude.

If you have a 259/289 HEAD laying around, you need to try fitting it to the Bolt Holes.
A 232 Exh. Manifold will still bolt up to a 259 head, it just won't flow of course.

[sals54]

I don't know what heads you guys are looking at, but they seem to look like they would match perfectly with all the Studebaker heads I have at home. Shorter outlets for the early heads, of course, but same pattern fer sher.

[larryyano]

Ill give that a shot

[bezhawk]

They look very much like Studebaker bolt patterns. In fact, it looks very much like Studebaker copied Fenton for their Stock 55-64 manifolds. Of course the 232 ports were much smaller. Can someone post a pic of the horrible log manifolds of the stock 232 for comparison. I got rid of my last one I had in stock.