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Old Jan 16, 2007 | 11:12 AM
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Default Installing headers

How hard would it be to install shorty headers? Would I need to put the car on a lift in order to do it? I only have jackstands so I wanted to know if it was possible to do it in my driveway.

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Old Jan 16, 2007 | 12:06 PM
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You have to remove the K member. Thats the hardest part.
Old Jan 16, 2007 | 12:07 PM
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i just installed them last week. Let me tell you its a bitch. You need to put your car on ramps at leats in the front. You need to lift the motor to get to some studs. It took me a couple of days to do it but if i did it again i could do it in hours. Make shure you have every tool they make because you will need it.
Old Jan 16, 2007 | 12:08 PM
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not with shorty headers
Old Jan 16, 2007 | 12:19 PM
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seems like too much of a hassle
Old Jan 16, 2007 | 12:22 PM
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Its a hassale but better then paying someone a bunch of money to do it.
Took me and my buddy a day to get my long tubes done with jack stands
Old Jan 16, 2007 | 01:27 PM
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Let me tell you its a bitch.

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Old Jan 16, 2007 | 01:35 PM
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i put long tubes on with jack stands i dropped the k member did all of it myself in less than 12 hours
Old Jan 16, 2007 | 01:42 PM
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wut about putting slp shorty x pipe on to stock headers???
Old Jan 16, 2007 | 02:08 PM
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Do you have to do all of this work even for shorties?



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