Header Advice
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From: Fort Worth , TX
Header Advice I'm starting my header install today . The car is an 01 Z28 . I was just wondering if there were any little tips or tricks some of you guys might know of or things to avoid . Thanks .
Do motor mounts while you're in there, please. I wish I would have done those when I was doing my header swap like 3 years ago. I'm just to lazy to drop my entire exhaust now in my garage on jackstands to do it. So pissed I didn't do it then. 
I just did mine today by myself....was a PITA trying to bolt the headers in by myself, especially the passenger side. So i would definately reccomend having someone help you. And everyone says to take the spark plugs out ( and i understand why) but i left them in there and had no problems. I even rested my headers on the spark plugs to hold them up while i climbed out from underneath the car to bolt them on up top. But it's really a pretty easy, straight forward job.
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cut that little tab offa the block, drivers side, there are 3 casting blocks, cut the rearmost one off. or grind it down, makes an almost impossible install into something very simple.
oh yeah, and finesse, this is one of those times where you wanna be a mechanic and pound them in, use finesse, like you would with a woman lol. trust me it helps
oh yeah, and finesse, this is one of those times where you wanna be a mechanic and pound them in, use finesse, like you would with a woman lol. trust me it helps
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ya know, he said motor mounts, if you look at my other post on here "solid mounts" alot of discussion going on there, good point, do it all at once. i'm doing a full exhaust in october and i wish i had the patience to have waited. either way, +1 on doing it all at once. i think from spohn it's like 100 something for the pair, (don't quote me tho) oh yeah, that's for solids haha, like i said, read that post i was talking about.
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From: Fort Worth , TX
Well .... I busted a header bolt off last night on the driver side .... Will I be ok to continue on and see if theres a leak or will the head have to come off to have it drilled out .... ?