Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Stupid headers

I'm referring to the exhaust headers on my race car. I bought a set from my racing buddy last year to put on but was hesitant because they're bigger. Well I decided to swap them out last weekend and failed. I started with the passenger side, unbolted them from the cylinder head and then found it impossible to get them out of the engine compartment. I tried sliding them out the bottom and the flange would hang up on the transmission. Then I tried sliding them out the top and they would hang up on the motor mount, failed again. Next was unbolt the motor mount from the car, jack the motor up and then see if there's enough room to slide it out, failed again! So after 4 frustrating hours of this madness I'd had enough and bolted the header back to the head and called it a day.

You read right too, 4 hours of struggling with this I had accomplished nothing and that is very frustrating.

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