Need a question answered. Putting the pacesetters in. Driver side done and no issues. Passenger side...the collector is hitting the heat shield not allowing the bolt holes to line up. I removed it and now they line up. Question is can i leave the shield off and just bfh the floor pan a little to make more clearance?
Will this cause any heat issues?

 

I used a little header wrap on my car. last I knew this could be found at Advance Auto Parts and I think Auto Zone.

 

nope should be fine, i have had my car with no heat shield for about a year now, and have had no problems

 

nothin wrong with a little BFH lol. Weird my pacesetters went in like butter. good luck!

 

it should go in without removing the heatshield.

 

+1, my pacesetters went in ****** easy and cherry. Weird.

 

That's weird... usually the passenger side headers fits in like a hotdog down a hallway...

 

mine went in so easy, it pissed me off that the driver's side takes a good amount of fanagling.

 

I don't know, maybe its different on each car. My driver's side went right in with no problems ceptshaving a little off the casting tab. The passenger side gave me a little trouble: had to jack it up a few more inches, took off that heat shield and a little clearencing with the bfh and its good. I should have done this a long time ago, those long tubes really wake up the car!

 

WTF.
My passenger side is retarded.
Driver side needs a little bit of work.
But that God damn passenger side...

 

Passenger side takes patience once you get the header in and start putting things back together. Fortunately my wife likes to wrench and she helped out alot with her little hands and small arms! Made life alot easier!