DrChuck23

I've had pacesetter LTs (purchased brand new from a sponsor) for about the last 9-10 months. Today, while driving home from work I hear a snapping sound from the passenger side engine bay followed by the sound of a big-time exhaust leak. I pull over, pop the hood and find that the EGR fitting on the #6 tube has been shot off and now has a gaping hole. (My car is an '01 without EGR so this fitting was plated off with the supplied hardware.)
I checked out the other fittings and the welds have turned white around the edges.
Has this happened to anyone else? Does Pacesetter have a one year warranty or anything? Can I get someone to just weld a patch over the whole and be okay? Does this white rim around the welds sound like the other fittings are going to fail too?

Thanks for the help

orangeapeel

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Good question. I would like to see some responses.

tylerz28ss

The limited warranty sheet that I recieved with my headers from a week ago says it has a 36 month warranty, but "pacesetter is not responsible for shipping charges"

RevGTO

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There have been a number of reports of this happening, which means that those welds are lousy and the other ones are also in danger of failing.

orangeapeel

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Maybe it is the downfall of the EGR provisioned Pacesetters?

blkbird

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Had that happen to mine also. I was waiting for a replacement but it took forever, so, I just took the header off and had the hole plugged up. The plates that the LT's come with are rather heavy, I think, and with all the rocking off the engine, its only a matter of time till they break free... My next set are going to be the race style being I dont have any AIR either....

TXZ28LS1

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damn that sucks. call up the place where you got the headers from, maybe they can help you out.. but i think you were just driving too damn fast..lol..j.k. good luck ..

Full-Force

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This is not a Pacesetter exclusive. Hooker and Jet Hot will do the same thing. Search and you will see.

01FormulaTA

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wow that sucks, I wish I woulda read this earlier and I woulda bought the offroad headers or a diff brand...I just installed mine like 2 days ago and now Im totally nervous about somthing like that happening, I would def contact pacesetter if I were you, I would be so pissed but anyways good luck...also I know you said 9-10 months but how many miles did you put on them before that happened?

DrChuck23

I drive a lot of miles (mostly highway to work), around 15000/year. I haven't gone to the strip at all since getting the headers and I've done one track event (Driver's Edge class) which was recent. I can't believe that one weekend of driving hard would be enough to make the welds fail. I'd hate to see what happens to real race cars.

Ericbigmac83

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See, this is why EGR sucks.....Im curious why you didnt just go with the offroad headers in the first place??

lt1formula2000

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I have the coated race version and mine split a weld out, on the #3 cylinder primary tube. It did this 3-5 weeks after I installed them. I had my motor out putting a cam in it(MS4) and I was waiting on the replacement they where suppposed to send but I ended up putting the motor back with old header that I patched up since a replacement has yet to arrive and i needed to get the car running to get it to the paint shop. I'm not sure but I think I might be getting the run around about the replacement

DrChuck23

I got these for the AIR system. I've been told since that plating off this system doesn't do anything to the drivability of the car but I don't know how true this is. Any problems with going with the offroad set?

novass72

My friends hooker LT's did the same thing like huge hole. Thats why I am buying race style headers, unfortunately Hooker doesn't make them.

SSRZ28

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i thought the 01 version pacesetters wouldn't of come with EGR?

Beasst8

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Mine is 01 and I got the "race style. No plates

DrChuck23

They have the "offroad" with no fittings then the ones with fittings that are for the EGR and AIR system (2 separate systems from what I understand). The '01 does not have EGR so one fitting on the passenger side is plated off while the AIR system remains connected to another fitting on each side. They do not make headers with just one set of fittings for the AIR.
I hope I got this right, but in any event, there's 2 fittings on each side and I only need one. My question is if I even really need the AIR system.

brejcha

Can someone explain the difference between these headers and wha EGR is. thanks cus headers are in my future and I would really not want to go through what these guys went through

johnpate01

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NO, you don't need the AIR system. It is used to help heat the cats faster (technically, to reach light-off temperature, or so its called) during startup. Removing it also gets rid of that howling sound when you first start your car.

DrChuck23

Well, Pacesetter actually sent out a replacement pretty quickly. I decided to go with the off road version and so far it is working out pretty well. Of course, it still cost me over $300 to do the header swap (Y pipe had to be cut and rewelded to get the header off).