Originally posted by BlackE1:
from my understanding the two blot flange does indeed take stress off the headers, my car does not have a flex pipe.
Your SVT may not have a flex pipe, but it does have a flex joint. You must have some sort of flexable coupling to minimize stresses on your headers from engine movement. If you don't have flexation of some sort, you will crack headers, or pull the studs out of your aluminum heads. Bad news either way.
Do whatever you want, but be sure to retain some form of flexable section.
Must be that jumbly-wumbly thing happening again.
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