Header help
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Header help
I have a 2012 corvette base ls3 and I installed longtubes and x pipe from speed engineering and well my o2s melted so I’m taking to headers off, heat wrapping them and also heat wrapping the o2 extensions. I have the car up on jack standsand ramps, the plug wires are off and the driver side header is unbolted, every clamp is in done and so are spring hangers, I CANT seem to get the damn headers out of the x pipe. I’ve tried taking the exhaust apart and I can’t get it off anywhere else either, I don’t have access to the back of the car right now as I have the garage closed and it’s 2 cm from the garage door (the other side of the door is 3 feet of snow lol) so I don’t wanna remove mufflers fully off the car if I don’t have to, any help at all would be great! Thanks
Racer
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From: Tennessee
If I were doing the job I would want my headers bolted to the head while trying to remove the x-pipe. If you can reattach the one that’s off without damaging the threads in the head for the header bolts it may make it easier for you. Good luck!
Melting Slicks
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Would leave headers bolted up then remove x pipe from mufflers tailpipe or from headers.I'm also running the speed engineering setup but the one exception I made was to go with 31 inch 02 extensions instead of the 24 inch they offer. The longer the better, I was able to get the wiring far away without wrapping anything.
Good luck.
