Cat Went Bad, Time For The Header Project, Need Opinions
 

Well I was hoping to wait till I parked my car for the winter to do the header project but my rear cat decided to take a dump on me causing my car to run like crap, there is no point in replacing it so I'm just going to do my headers now.

I found a great deal on brand new pacesetter ceramic coated long tubes (non-emissions) with an off-road y-pipe for $520 with shipping. So I'm going to go with them.

Now I know that the gaskets and bolts that they give you aren't the best quality so I was thinking of getting the fel-pro gaskets and the stage 8 locking header bolts. Do you guys recommend me using something else?

After I get all of this done and in I am going to send my PCM out to pcmforless to have it tuned with the new exhaust set-up.

Also while I'm in there I want to do plugs and wires and my opti. I'm going to go with the MSD opti but what do you reccommend I use for plugs and wires?

Any help and or advice is appreciated.

Thanks.

,Nick

use the earls exhaust manifold gasket, you need the one for "D" ports, i've used felpro and mr. gasket on my Pacesetters and the bolts always came loose. Ever since I put on the earls i never had to tighten them.

With my stock heads I used NGK TR55s and Taylor 8.8 wire set, never had a problem at all. now about the MSD opti, if you go over to cz28.com and do a search, very few people have had sucess with it.

i run 1" arp bolts iirc and am currently using the copper gaskets that come with the headers without a problem

the rest of the hardware isnt a problem. as for the opti, just keep it factory but loctite the rotor screws in.

the taylor 8mm otvc wire loom/wires are quality