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Originally posted by Matty K:
Beating a dead horse:
To be totally, 1000% clear: I'm doing full headers. It's a MSDS set, with a two bolt flange. My car also has a two bolt flange. So, I should be good to go, right? The nature of the two-bolt flange allows give, so there's no worry about cracking or need for a flex?
Also, does anyone have a pic of headers installed, looking down from the top of the engine? I just want to see how visible they are.
Correct.
The headers are barley visible.
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Originally posted by MxRacer:
Originally posted by RawBurt:
I'll be keeping it to myself, until the time comes. It'll be hard to find. 
much like your weiner.
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Originally posted by Matty K:
Beating a dead horse:
To be totally, 1000% clear: I'm doing full headers. It's a MSDS set, with a two bolt flange. My car also has a two bolt flange. So, I should be good to go, right? The nature of the two-bolt flange allows give, so there's no worry about cracking or need for a flex?
Also, does anyone have a pic of headers installed, looking down from the top of the engine? I just want to see how visible they are.
you will need a new gasket for the y-pipe to cat flange otherwise two bolt y-pipe to 2 bolt cat is good to go
you can't see the front header unless you are looking for it ...
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Originally posted by BrApple:
Originally posted by Matty K:
Beating a dead horse:
To be totally, 1000% clear: I'm doing full headers. It's a MSDS set, with a two bolt flange. My car also has a two bolt flange. So, I should be good to go, right? The nature of the two-bolt flange allows give, so there's no worry about cracking or need for a flex?
Also, does anyone have a pic of headers installed, looking down from the top of the engine? I just want to see how visible they are.
you will need a new gasket for the y-pipe to cat flange otherwise two bolt y-pipe to 2 bolt cat is good to go
you can't see the front header unless you are looking for it ...
What?
When i did my headers there wasent a gasket bewteen the cat and the Y-pipe. IIRC the Donut flange acts as a gaskets, much in the way the y-pipe connects to the manifolds.
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Originally posted by MxRacer:
Originally posted by RawBurt:
I'll be keeping it to myself, until the time comes. It'll be hard to find.
much like your weiner.
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Originally posted by Tourige:
Originally posted by BrApple:
Originally posted by Matty K:
Beating a dead horse:
To be totally, 1000% clear: I'm doing full headers. It's a MSDS set, with a two bolt flange. My car also has a two bolt flange. So, I should be good to go, right? The nature of the two-bolt flange allows give, so there's no worry about cracking or need for a flex?
Also, does anyone have a pic of headers installed, looking down from the top of the engine? I just want to see how visible they are.
you will need a new gasket for the y-pipe to cat flange otherwise two bolt y-pipe to 2 bolt cat is good to go
you can't see the front header unless you are looking for it ...
What?
When i did my headers there wasent a gasket bewteen the cat and the Y-pipe. IIRC the Donut flange acts as a gaskets, much in the way the y-pipe connects to the manifolds.
there is on the stock 2-bolt y-pipe, maybe the headers don't have one but that doesn't make much sense to me ... 
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Mine did not have a gasket on it..
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Originally posted by MxRacer:
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much like your weiner.
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Originally posted by Tourige:
Mine did not have a gasket on it..
Another vote for the donut. I put the MSDS Y on my car and required exactly 0 gaskets.
However, the Y to Cat connection with the donut has some special bolts/pins--crazy expensive and I couldn't get the pins out, and I ended up breaking one of the bolts because I didn't know what I was doing. I still need to go back under there one of these days and fix the redneck engineering I did to get it all running.
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Originally posted by RogerB:
Originally posted by Tourige:
Mine did not have a gasket on it..
Another vote for the donut. I put the MSDS Y on my car and required exactly 0 gaskets.
However, the Y to Cat connection with the donut has some special bolts/pins--crazy expensive and I couldn't get the pins out, and I ended up breaking one of the bolts because I didn't know what I was doing. I still need to go back under there one of these days and fix the redneck engineering I did to get it all running.
yea, mine came out easy enough, they just needed some tugging, Definatly a weird setup.
I hate the person who designed our cars.
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Originally posted by MxRacer:
Originally posted by RawBurt:
I'll be keeping it to myself, until the time comes. It'll be hard to find.
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Yeah, I broke one of those bolts too. I just went to the local hardware store and bought some 2 1/2 inch bolts, nuts, and washers. Put a washer on the bolt, put it on, put on the spring, another washer, then the nut, and good as new! I works just like the stock set up, and cost all of $2.00.  I bought 7/16 bolts, so they are nice and thick to deal with the stress put on them by the flexing exhaust.
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