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Old Aug 1, 2012 | 04:53 PM
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My stock exhaust manifolds are leaking a little and was thinking of installing some pacesetter headers, can anyone give me some tips or pointers, and how long does it usually take? Thanks
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Take your time when you do it, atleast 2 days in the garage. Your going to need 02 extensions and should do poly motor mounts at the same time. Then decide if you want to keep egr and air or get the race style ones.
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Get ones without emissions fittings, and when you get your mail order tune, have them delete, air, EGR, and rear O2 sensors. Just cleans up the engine bay, and you will not pass emissions with long tubes anyways. Doesnt take 2 days normally, but yes it is a huge bitch. Put the car up as high as you can, ramps under the rear tires, and jack stands under the front. Remove your spark plugs! And be careful of the coolant temp sensor on the driver side of the block. When you start it up, and you see smoke coming from under the hood, DONT PANIC! Thats just the greasy fingerprints burning off of the headers.
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Old Aug 2, 2012 | 06:09 AM
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If it takes 2 days you had some real troubles...
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Old Aug 2, 2012 | 09:49 AM
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Mines taken 8 days so far but that's includes waiting on parts and only working on it a hr or two and my hookers went in from top on passenger side
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Old Aug 2, 2012 | 11:20 AM
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It took me 6 hours start to finish. That also included removing two broken manifold bolts.

ha this was back when i used cinder blocks to put the car up high enough. lol
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Old Aug 2, 2012 | 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by OlMastaScrilla
Take your time when you do it, atleast 2 days in the garage. Your going to need 02 extensions and should do poly motor mounts at the same time. Then decide if you want to keep egr and air or get the race style ones.
This is what I'd plan for as well unless you've done it a few times.
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- Search -...tons of threads on this and do your homework before turning the first wrench.
And wipe those greasy prints off and there wil be less smoke or burned in ugly stains.
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Thanks for all the help, hope i can get it done soon!
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Start soaking your manifold bolts a couple days with pb blaster a few days before you plan on swapping the headers in...
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Yea I planned on it, what you think about the pacesetters?
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