I recently purchased used hooker header lt's and i just finished installing them last week. well with my first start up there was smoke coming out of the engine...why was this?


(also put on new wires and sparkplugs with the install, and now missfire at 300 rpm)

 

Like smoke out the top of the engine? Maybe off the headers? Probably just oil/grease burning off as they heat up. As for the misfire, check to make sure none of your plug wires are touching the headers and burning through.

 

How the hell does it even run at 300rpms?

No worries on the smoke issue.

 

lmaoo ya i ment 3000rpms. well i know my wires are touching the headers caus there long. how do i fix this, or does this mean there not pushed in all the way?

 

You can "aim" the spark plug boot on the coil toward the front/back of the car to help get the wire away from the tube.

I had my MSD's sitting on the damn tubes for the longest time and it didn't really hurt them, they are made of some crazy stuff.

 

you were prob just burning the coat off the headers, mine did that too for the 1st day

 

Smoke= the coating,fingerprints etc

 

Yeah mine smoked pretty bad when I first started it with open headers

 

man....i do not feel like going back and trying to find this broken plug!!!!!

 

find someone local with ls1edit or hp tuners, or something else that can look at all the tables and will tell you what plus it is.

 

very correct, for a cam swap it seems to last for ever. also the coating/paint will smell like complete ***

 

expect the same thing but for a longer time if and when you put a catback on