blew a hole in my primary
03-08-2007, 03:45 PM
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blew a hole in my primary so coming home today i got it a wee bit and i blew a hole in my cylinder 1 primary. i have headman stepped lts painted there about 1 year an a half old anybody else every done this
03-08-2007, 03:58 PM
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yea so **** hedman they told me the only way to warrenty the hedders is if i send them to them to be inspected to make sure it wasnt my cars fault which still runs fine. i was like well i patch it so i could drive it and hes like well you voided the warrenty complete bs im so pissed
03-08-2007, 04:08 PM
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that sucks man. i guess now you have to weld a piece on there or go with some Pacesetters. i remember reading a thread about some guy blowing a hole in one of his headers primaries also. i just don't remember what brand they were. so it does happen, but it is just not common.
03-08-2007, 04:09 PM
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actually i just read that post and his were lg's but now that i think about it after reading his it was were my air fitting was now it is not
03-08-2007, 05:48 PM
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WTF...did the metal just fail in some random spot or is there a weld bead or something where it blew out? That's ridiculous either way. I don't see how the exhaust can cause that (it's not like it's causing major pressure inside the primary...maybe it was the multiple heat cycles combined with the "mild" pressure from the exhaust at higher rpms).
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03-08-2007, 07:20 PM
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it happened to me on my pacesetters but it was where the A.I.R. tube is welded to the primary. Just ordered some new ones without the emissions stuff and coated so i highly doubt it'll happen again.
03-08-2007, 10:59 PM
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Did you buy the headers from a vendor or directly from Headman? I'd go to the vendor, and let them deal with Headman, they usually have a little more stroke.
So when they fail, there isn't even anybody there to tell you to **** off! 
Originally Posted by Tainted
should have gone with e-bay headers!
03-08-2007, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by LILWS6
i think someone had a set of kooks blew of an air fitting as well my air is hooked up so i hope mine don't do this down the road
For every case of someone having a bung blow off, there's 100 others who have no problems, block-offs or not.
03-09-2007, 08:04 AM
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If you had it blocked off i highly doubt hedman will warranty it for you. Like blur said, every header has had this issue when they are blocked off. Thats why im getting race style headers and wont have to deal with that.
