Ok so I recently picked up a used H-pipe that's been on my car for a couple of weeks ago, and then I picked up a set of used ss shorty headers (dont know brand of either) when I put them on the first time it sounded terrible, bad exhaust leak, so I pulled the pass side off yesterday, drivers is fine and looked at it, the flange was bent in on the rear where you bolt to the h-pipe so we bent it back flat and used some copper rtv (high heat) to seal it back, it worked for a little bit but then it blew that out.
Today I looked at it and you can see how they are kind of misaligned the header and h-pipe are like cocked inward and the outside is good and close but the inside of the ball flange I can feel a gap.
Basicly my question is there someway to fix this? or should I just buy another set of headers or is the h-pipe able to be bent ever so slightly..... I'm kind of at a loss because I dont know what to do. If it werent for the fact that the header would be impossible to put on I could always attach the header and h-pipe but then I wouldnt be able to get the bolt holes to line up. That reminds me when I loosened some of the bolts on the header to get another one to start it seemed that the front primarys were pulling away from the motor very hard as i was loosening.
Today I looked at it and you can see how they are kind of misaligned the header and h-pipe are like cocked inward and the outside is good and close but the inside of the ball flange I can feel a gap.
Basicly my question is there someway to fix this? or should I just buy another set of headers or is the h-pipe able to be bent ever so slightly..... I'm kind of at a loss because I dont know what to do. If it werent for the fact that the header would be impossible to put on I could always attach the header and h-pipe but then I wouldnt be able to get the bolt holes to line up. That reminds me when I loosened some of the bolts on the header to get another one to start it seemed that the front primarys were pulling away from the motor very hard as i was loosening.