Install Help
 

Does anyone know of a good place with good prices to install headers and a y pipe in the morris/essex county area?

TMR performance? And welcome from a Morris county-er

JS performance yo

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Do it yourself?

i would love to do it myself, but i dont have the expertise nor a garage. i was quoted by a local meineke who did my exhaust and he told me $500. Is that about what it is going to cost? if so i may have to do it myself.

LT1? yea thats about the going rate....LS it would probably be cheaper.

"TMR Performance" is the closest sponsor to you. JSPerformance is 2nd closest

I got quoted 500 for my LTs on my LS1.



...hence why I just did it myself. Hardest part was getting the car high enough in my driveway.

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Yea man try and do it yourself. Take the money that you would spend on the install for headers and buy jack , ramps , and socket set. That'll be like 170. and get a can of pb blaster. for the old exauast manifold bolts. and btw go out and get yourself new spark plugs before you install your new headers you wont want to try and change them after you put headers on.

ok so i have decided to attempt the install myself. so if anyone hears of, car owner blows his car up in a rage on the nj news, thats me. Also, the hooker headers have one of the tubes on the driver side I believe that detaches. Does that need to be welded or do you just leave it? That is the one thing i am confused about.

You put a clamp over the slip fit.

What engine is this for?

its for 96 lt1.

Ah..

Well be patient. Lots of PB blaster, and a lot of patience.

yeah thats what i hear. i am starting it monday and am off all week so i have some time to do it. I am sure I will be posting some "help me please" posts during the install.

Are you doing this on jack stands?

And you really should order new poly motor mounts and 02 extensions.

and plugs and wires. make sure you route the wires well away from the primaries. otherwise, you will burn them! have fun too, i would have paid someone 8-) post up when you run into trouble.

If you have the entire week off, and already are going to have the stock exhaust manifolds off, then I recommend you do the motor mounts & the spark plugs now too. Make sure you have 2 band clamps, o2 sensor extensions, new gaskets & a lot of FluidFilm or PB Blaster... if you have a torch, even better!

I couldn't get my car high enough to get the cats & manifolds off together, so I ended up cutting the pipe with a Sawzall.


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^^this was on a LS1, not LT1

http://www.shbox.com/1/exhaust_system_dual_cat.jpg

If you can't get the car high enough to take that jig saw puzzle off, I would give a lot of second thought to installing LTs.

Just take your time, get a friend to help, and make sure the car is properly supported. I also recommend that you do motor mounts at the same time.

yeah i am going out to get a set of jack stands on sunday. Is that high enough with jack stands?

get some decent jackstands from sears, dont get the crappy 20 dollar stands from walmart. the bigger ones from sears can go higher. much higher.

Doable yes, it is not going to be fun though..

You also may need a little bottle jack to lift the engine off the mounts.

did you say bottle of jack? thats what i was planning on getting me through the installation.