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A welder works at a mandrel tube bender inside the Thorley Headers fabrication shop in Canton, Ohio.
Canton, Ohio · Est. 1978

Real horsepower. On real American V8s. Built by hand in Ohio.

Thorley Headers has been mandrel-bending, hand-porting and shipping bolt-on exhaust headers out of a 38,000 sq-ft shop in Canton for 45 years. If it bolts to a small-block, big-block, Windsor, modular or Hemi — we make the header.

  • 412,000+Header sets shipped
  • 1,860+SKUs in stock
  • 4.9/58,300+ verified reviews
Find your header in 60 seconds

Start with the engine in the bay.

Pick your platform. We'll route you to the right header family, the matching part numbers, and the torque gain range from our dyno logs. Not sure which way the engine came from the factory? Call a tech.

Not sure which header fits your combo? Talk to an ASE-certified tech — (330) 478-0000. Average pickup under 38 seconds.

45 Years · Canton, Ohio · 47 Craftsmen
412,000+ Header sets shipped to 50 states & 38 countries
1,860+ SKUs in stock — largest header library in North America
4.9 / 5 Across 8,300+ verified reviews on Trustpilot & Speedway Motors
99.2% On-time delivery over the last 5 years · 94% same-day ship
The Thorley difference

Built right in Canton. Built to outlast the car.

Four commitments we've kept since 1978. No crush bends, no offshore shortcuts, no fine print.

01

Mandrel-bent tubing on every header

No crush bends. Ever. Mandrel bending keeps the inside diameter constant from flange to collector — which is the difference between a header that flows and one that chokes your exhaust.

02

Patented Tri-Y design

Independent dyno testing by Engine Builder Magazine (March 2019) measured +18–27 ft-lbs of torque on small-block Chevy engines with our THY-283 series. Gains vary by combo, tune, and altitude — but the curve is real.

03

100% made in Ohio

All 47 craftsmen, engineers and warehouse staff work out of our 38,000 sq-ft facility in Canton. We don't import tubing, we don't relabel offshore blanks, we don't cut corners on a Tuesday afternoon.

04

Lifetime no-rust-through warranty

Honored on every header since 1982. If our tubing rusts through under normal use, we replace it. That's the warranty. That's the whole warranty.

"Forty-five years in, Thorley is still the yardstick. The Tri-Y small-block header bolted on, the car picked up two tenths and the torque curve flattened exactly where it should. Nobody else in the catalog is making tubing this consistently."

Hot Rod Magazine Engine Masters feature, Issue #8 / 2019
  • 22features across Hot Rod, Car Craft, Super Chevy & Engine Masters TV
  • 2016SEMA Global Media Award — Best New Engine Performance Product (THY-454 Tri-Y)
  • ISO 9001:2015certified annually since 2009