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Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Be4u on June 13 2006, 03:28:21 PM

Gotta make a run...I'll update y'all later. There on though.

Title: Re: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: DCEPTCN on June 13 2006, 03:31:06 PM

Sweet. Pics up post, you must.

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Be4u on June 13 2006, 07:40:07 PM

I'm gettting a bung welded on my DP. That wont go on till tomorrow. The pass side was cake, easier than the drivers side.

I have a problem though. The pass header touched the brake lines on the frame. WTF do I do now?

Pics will come.

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Recklessrob on June 13 2006, 11:35:38 PM

Quote from: "Be4u @ Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:40 pm"

I'm gettting a bung welded on my DP. That wont go on till tomorrow. The pass side was cake, easier than the drivers side.

I have a problem though. The pass header touched the brake lines on the frame. WTF do I do now?

Pics will come.

The brake line should be right up against the back side of the engine
crossmember, and held in with some little brackets. I'll wait to see the pics.

Title: Re: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Be4u on June 14 2006, 01:57:11 AM

I actually ment to say tranny cooler lines. The close up pic, see the yellow circle? Thats where the header is touching. The far pic showes the general area.

Title: Re: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: DCEPTCN on June 14 2006, 12:24:16 PM

Very nice. Any seat of the pants improvement would you say?

Title: Re: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Recklessrob on June 14 2006, 12:39:03 PM

It looks like you'll have to re-route the transmission lines. Don't
leave it like that, because the extra heat will destroy the best of transmissions.
They do fit tight though. What are you using for motor mounts ?

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Be4u on June 14 2006, 12:40:56 PM

Havent drivin it yet.

Damn re-routing the lines. That sucks. Any suggestions?

Poly mounts from hrparts.

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Recklessrob on June 14 2006, 12:50:02 PM

Quote from: "Be4u @ Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:40 am"

Havent drivin it yet.

Damn re-routing the lines. That sucks. Any suggestions?

Poly mounts from hrparts.

I'd go over the control arms with high temp sleeving over them.

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Be4u on June 14 2006, 12:52:58 PM

damnit, i'm broke. Will some aluminum foil work? lol j/k

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Recklessrob on June 14 2006, 12:55:11 PM

Quote from: "Be4u @ Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:52 am"

damnit, i'm broke. Will some aluminum foil work? lol j/k

Temporarilly, yes.

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Be4u on June 14 2006, 12:56:47 PM

yeah, actually it would huh. Not a chance though.

Title: Re: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Be4u on June 15 2006, 08:09:48 PM

What lines are thoes? They dont go to my tranny.

Anyways, I had to reposition the positive wires on my starter. It was a bitch, tight fit, but thats done. I had the wires facing the headers, I rotated them downward for extra room.

I got thoes lines about an inch away from the headers. What I did was take that little bracket and mod it a little and turned it backwards. Pauly and I pushed on the lines till we got the bracket to fit backwards. Not too bad.

The hardest part was getting the "leak proof" clamps on the crossover. Holy crap was that a bitch. When we figured it out it wasnt too bad.

Title: Re: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Recklessrob on June 16 2006, 01:56:48 AM

Quote from: "Be4u @ Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:09 pm"

What lines are thoes? They dont go to my tranny.

Anyways, I had to reposition the positive wires on my starter. It was a bitch, tight fit, but thats done. I had the wires facing the headers, I rotated them downward for extra room.

I got thoes lines about an inch away from the headers. What I did was take that little bracket and mod it a little and turned it backwards. Pauly and I pushed on the lines till we got the bracket to fit backwards. Not too bad.

The hardest part was getting the "leak proof" clamps on the crossover. Holy crap was that a bitch. When we figured it out it wasnt too bad.

Cool. how does the car go with them ?

Title: Re: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Be4u on June 16 2006, 05:06:46 AM

Still aint got the DP back yet. Thats the ONLY thing left to do. Oil pans tight now, lol.

I also figured out what was wrong with my stereo. I swear I checked my fuse about two years ago. Never used my radio because I thought it was fried. It was the frickin' fuse. Ugh. Now, half my plans over. Now I need to get a bucket >D

Title: Re: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Recklessrob on June 18 2006, 02:43:34 AM

Cool, it sounds like things are going together well.

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Be4u on June 18 2006, 03:54:01 AM

the car is back together but my drivers side is freakin' leakin'. I torcued them to 37 ft/lbs. Time to tighten more.

Title: Re: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Recklessrob on June 18 2006, 04:09:19 AM

I'm suprized that they leaked at all.

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Be4u on June 18 2006, 03:16:30 PM

My radio works but my CD player dont. I put a CD in and it clicks and ejects the disk.

I tightened two of the dr header bolts...the leak isnt as bad. I'm going to tighten them all now to 41 ft/lbs

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Recklessrob on June 18 2006, 07:03:53 PM

Quote from: "Be4u @ Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:16 pm"

My radio works but my CD player dont. I put a CD in and it clicks and ejects the disk.

I tightened two of the dr header bolts...the leak isnt as bad. I'm going to tighten them all now to 41 ft/lbs

What are you using for gaskets ?

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Be4u on June 19 2006, 12:00:29 AM

nuttin!

Title: Bling Bling Headers!
Post by: Recklessrob on June 19 2006, 01:02:18 PM

Quote from: "Be4u @ Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:00 pm"

nuttin!

Try a little film of grease between the headers, and head. If
that doesn't work, you may have to use gaskets.