[Steve91T]

To make installing headers fun.

But what is fun is making my wife start the car with no exhaust!


https://youtu.be/Am1PXOoZPNc

[JimMueller]

I had some buddies perform my first LS1 header install around '99, using the 'Grotyohann' brand on my already cam'ed motor. They had done plenty of Mac mid-length header installs in their garage and said it'd likely take 3 hours. I arrive at 1PM, and they finally have them in around 1AM. Except the y-pipe is bent so only one bank will connect. They didn't have the tools to coerce it so they wired the y-pipe to the chassis so it wouldn't fall. My maybe 2 year old daughter was sleeping inside. We drove 45 minutes home on open headers, she slept the whole way.

The next day I had to drive my daughter to day care and on the way to the fabrication shop, I had a guy want to race me but I didn't want to attract any more attention. The shop heated the pipes to mate them to the collectors.

About 10 years later, I swapped out the exhaust for ARH's on a shop lift and that only took a couple of hours. But I had an unexpected expense; I was using an aftermarket high-torque starter, and the new headers wouldn't fit with it. I had to drive to a dealer and buy the factory starter to finish the install.

This post has been edited by JimMueller: Aug 11 2017, 12:31 AM