Got the header fabrication mostly done, just need to put in the o2 sensor bung and figure out how to attach the flex tube in a way that can be undone with the firewall back in place. The header is lighter than the cast-iron manifold, but not by a lot, haven't weighed them yet. ok, so with the downpipe, the cast-iron manifold was 10lbs, the header was 4lbs, so actually quite a relative wt savings. I'm going to have them ceramic coated, which takes 2 weeks, as much as I like to get things finished plenty other things to do.
Got my rear wheels back from the machine shop, so can put the rear end back together.