ok i installed Long tube pacesetter headers today on my 96 trans am, and i used mr gasket copper gasket, and i cranked it up without my o2's plugged up and first all , i have exhaust leaks around the headers and my bolts are tight, so i guessing its the gaskets? and whenever the cars running i have a ticking noise coming from the driver side header, and the more i give it gas the faster the ticking gets.... what is causing this? anyone have an idea? i have ngktr55 in it, but havent changed the plug wires , i am waiting on them to get here....so anyone have an idea?

 

Did you get in there with a gasket scraper and get all the old gasket off the head? The old gaskets like to bake on there.

 

copper gaskets suck, put some type of felpro or aluminum deadsoft type gasket in it and you should be good. I had the mr. gasket copper seals on my car for about 15min and they leaked like a hose. I put the percy's dead soft flange gaskets in and no leaks at all.

 

ok so what would be making the ticking noise? would that be the leaking gasket? and where could i get the percys dead soft flange gasket at?

 

man i feel your pain. what it is is that your header flanges are a little warped or maybe just have minor irregularities on the flanges sealing surface.And yeah its unfortunately a exhaust leak. mine constantly leak a little and am disappointed in these copper one. i on the other hand i have had very good results with the alluminum ones and am going to replace these copper ones with some aluminum ones. copper just isnt soft enough,but aluminum is,and stronger than the traditional carbon ones

 

ok well where could i get the aluminum ones at?

 

i spent a week on all this , taking my time when i get off work for a couple of hours to get everything perfect, and finally finished today, and this **** happens!! BULLSHITT!!!

 

The ticking is the exhaust leak. Did you use a Hi temp sealer on them??

 

you can get the aluminum ones from summitracing.com they are around 35-40 bucks but in my eyes its money well spent

 

Are u talking about earl's aluminum gaskets from summit?

 

FelPro 1470.

 

i used just the regular paper Mr Gasket gaskets. havn't had a problem yet with them

 

Ok so what's the difference of the felpro 1405 and 1470?

 

the ticking is a exhaust leak.I thought I warned you about those crappy gaskets in your first post you made about header gaskets..Go with felpros

 

Percy's ........better than stockers or Fel-Pro.

 

65.

Seriously - The 1405's are "square port" and the 1470's are "d-port"

 

This man speaks the truth!!!

 

I had the same f@$#ing problem 2 weeks ago with the same products you used. Those copper gaskets suck *** and leaked on every cylinder. I put on the earls gaskets with the inserts and it sealed up perfectly so far.

 

are you sure the gaskets aren't in backwards

 

i had copper gaskets when i first installed my headers and a few ports were leaking. so, i switch to whatever came with the headers and they're working great.