New Headers for my '04 S

[j.fro]

The price has gotten just too good, so I pulled the trigger as well. On the auction site, they had a "best offer", so I offered $95 plus the $39 or whatever shipping. All in, it was under $140. The install went pretty well today. I had sprayed all of te bolts & O2 sensors a couple of days ago with PB Blaster. Everything came out nicely; I used an impact wrench on the bolts I could reach with it, a couple others just got the ratchet and elbow grease. The header-to-cylinder head bolts all survived (whew!), but the header-to-exhaust pipe bolts snapped on three out of six. Two of those were the splined press in bolts, and I had to pull the whole catalytic converter pipe out and really go after them with the sledge to get them out. That was the worst part of the whole job. The only other burble was that on the passenger side, one of the center bolt holes was off by a hair. And the gaskets were a bad match. Fortunately, I had a set of Porsche gaskets, and with a little patience and work, I got all of the bolts in and tight. The new sound is delightful! much deeper, and the growl is more pronounced. A while back I modified my muffler internally to bypass the secondary chamber on each side (like the Sebring muffler, but without the external pipes), and I've "modified" my catalytic converters to flow better. On the bottom end, I may have lost some torque, but after 4000 RPM, she takes off! Money well spent.