I drove it around the block, it seemed ok, sounds like crap.. Lol major leaks up front between headers and h pipe.Sounds good. How's the drivability?
Bbk shorty headers, stock style flangeWhat kind of headers do we have? Flange style?
I had a situation with a ball and cone setup on a truck where I installed cheapo headers and an equally cheapo y-pipe where the cone flanges on the y-pipe were a little too small. This resulted in severely bending the cone flanges on the headers when I torqued them down. I didn't realize it until I got fed up with trying to get them to seal and bought some nice stuff and installed it instead.Bbk shorty headers, stock style flange
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The headers were fine when taken off my car. I am using a different h pipe than before I took it apart. It is a used 2 piece h pipe, though in good shape I guess it could need adjusted. When you say gasket do you mean one of the donut gaskets?
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It does not look to be modified at all, I used a 2 piece summit h pipe before without any issues. I tightened them up as evenly as possible. When the headers were off the car I had to weld 2 new bolts on the one header in the exact same spot, so that shouldn't be an issue. I do have another set of headers that I could swap out I guessIf it is used and a different H pipe, it could be all bent up. That changes things. Who knows what the prior owner did to make it fit on their car. You may need to use some persuasion with a torch to heat up the pipe and bend it to fit or use donut gaskets.
Did you tighten up the H pipe where it meetes the header collectors evenly on each side or tighten them one at a time?
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