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Possible to remove passenger side shorty header with motor in car?

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Dohc32vMarkVIII

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It sounds like I have a massive exhaust leak from my passenger side header (at least I hope to God that's what it is ) but I can't tell at all where it is coming from. I think one of the primary tubes might have a crack. The headers on the car are Flowtech shorties, I thought I read that shorties are possible to remove with the motor in-car, whereas full length and longtubes are pretty much impossible. Also, my hands are huge.

How much is this going to suck?
 

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shorty's are very easy to install/remove. I had a set of mac shorty's and you should be able to remove the pass. side in about 30 minutes.
 

RYC CUKR

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They're really easy to take off. Just unbolt it from the H pipe and then from the cylinder heads and out she comes.
 
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Getting it out wasn't that hard. Just takes some jiggling and some elbow grease...Getting it in is the hard part. Had to loosen the engine mounts and give the engine a little shove towards the passenger side from the plenum of the intake manifold. It only took about an inch of new space to get it in.
 
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