Need info on headers before buying-C7
Safety Car
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The Hooker shorties will bolt right in place of oem manifolds and connect to the oem cats. You don't have to take the dry sump lines off to install them or to remove the factory manifolds. The installation is fairly straight forward and mine haven't caused any codes. The bolt holes for the passenger side weren't exactly right and had to be drilled out but other than that no issues. Mine are Cerakoted. I would recommend regardless of whose headers you choose to use ARP studs. You'll know immediately if anything is off with the headers and you won't risk stripping out the holes in the heads.
Last edited by badhabit_wb; Jan 24, 2020 at 04:49 PM.
Melting Slicks
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I just finished a set of ARH's on a 17GS last week. Be generous with firesleeve. I sleeve the dry sump hoses and heater hoses. There is a harness that runs near the heater hoses forward and into the underhood fuse box, it needs to be firesleeved. I wrap the left primary tube with metal heat shield where it is near the oil cooler, same for the tube near the starter. Tie up the )2 sensor wiring as far away from the headers as possible and use a piece of firesleeve over the connectors. Add heatsleeves over the spark plug wires. I can't say how close they are to the a/c because I removed the a/c and also the back half of the compressor, but look and firesleeve as needed.
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Last edited by lakemg; Jan 25, 2020 at 06:50 PM.
