Or you could hit the rock on the way home just to even things out. 
My headers say "Ouch"!
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My headers say "Ouch"!
I take a winding canyon road to work, great scenery. One side is the river, the other side is rocky mountains. I've seen cows falling down from the steep slope, and more often, rocks. Today it was a rock. Heard a few LOUD banging noises, looked in the rearview mirror to see a good size rock, and fragments flying off. These photos show the damage. I guess I should feel lucky the oil filter didn't get ripped off, or a hole in the oil pan. Sorry you have to twist your head for the 1st photo, don't know why, I uploaded it with the correct orientation, but photobucket did something to it.
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Bad luck indeed. I would not be too concerned though about performance drop I would guess that it would be insignificant. Others may have some empirical proof.
One reason why I refuse to drive HWY 1 in central California coast, just to many rock slides and no way to avoid them.
One reason why I refuse to drive HWY 1 in central California coast, just to many rock slides and no way to avoid them.
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I believe this can be repaired but you would have to take the hedder off to do it properly.
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Gee you had me wondering about the spelling. Here's what I found doing a little online research.
Every major manufacturer of exhaust calls them "Headers", except Hedman in their logo calls them hedders, but in their description even they call them Headers as quoted below.
"ALWAYS HAVE BEEN...ALWAYS WILL BE.
Over 2 Million sets of headers built, and every one of them built in the USA!"
Every major manufacturer of exhaust calls them "Headers", except Hedman in their logo calls them hedders, but in their description even they call them Headers as quoted below.
"ALWAYS HAVE BEEN...ALWAYS WILL BE.
Over 2 Million sets of headers built, and every one of them built in the USA!"
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