Headers...at home or a shop?
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Le Mans Master
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Headers...at home or a shop?
Are headers an at home project, or give it to a shop? Also, what headers would work best with the setup in my sig? I have SLP exhaust. Thanks.
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From: College Station Tx
Re: Headers...at home or a shop? (95AquaC4)
Open headers only make the drive to the exhaust shop that much better! :D You will spend way more money to pay somebody to do it for you. It won't be near as expesive to have an exhaust shop hook up your exhaust to your headers after you install them though.
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Re: Headers...at home or a shop? (_freakmonkeydogboy_)
what about long tubes and cutting and welding the cat-back to fit? :confused: you can't really do that at home, can you?
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From: San Antonio Texas
Re: Headers...at home or a shop? (95AquaC4)
Acouple of short lengths of flex pipe, clamped, got me to the welders. Of course, if you really want to drive it with open headers, and feel lucky.. :lol:
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Re: Headers...at home or a shop? (Curveit)
Doing it on a lift..... I would have to say I wouldnt attempt it at home. Air tools are great... and the Headers come form the bottom so you got to get the car up.
You can def. do it. Its a matter of is it worth the trouble. I say go for it if you have the tools, know-how, and a way to get the car in the air like 3ft. Its time consuming..... I say go for it and save some $$ and buy something else with the 600 dollars you'll save
You can def. do it. Its a matter of is it worth the trouble. I say go for it if you have the tools, know-how, and a way to get the car in the air like 3ft. Its time consuming..... I say go for it and save some $$ and buy something else with the 600 dollars you'll save
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Re: Headers...at home or a shop? (95AquaC4)
Long tubes or shorties? Nobody around here would touch long tubes. It's illegal to remove the cats so they will politely tell you to go away.
That being said that if the cat "happens" to already be gone you might get a shop to connect the rest of the exhaust back to the headers.
It's really pretty easy to install a set of long tubes. It takes longer to get the old manifolds out of the way than it does to install the headers. I did mine in the floor off of jackstands.
That being said that if the cat "happens" to already be gone you might get a shop to connect the rest of the exhaust back to the headers.
It's really pretty easy to install a set of long tubes. It takes longer to get the old manifolds out of the way than it does to install the headers. I did mine in the floor off of jackstands.