so im coming up on a new job, and upon landing it, im probably going to be gettin a mach in near future, so im starting to gauge my expenses now. i mean i'll be pretty satisfied in the short run with how it will sit as is, but i know one of the first things among many will be to change out the exhaust. a lot of the ones for sale already have catback systems on it, so thats not really my primary concern. my question is more along the lines of labor.

anyway, i know for sure im going to be putting an o/r midpipe on it, but with local emissions laws, ill have to put the cats back on to pass inspection. which isnt a problem, as i already do it with the car i have now. but my other option was to get LT's with it, and a o/r LT midpipe. now anyone who has swapped midpipes with hand ratchets, knows that undoing the bolts and rebolting up a midpipe to the shorty headers on any car is a pain, so i was thinking maybe it would just be easier to do it all by the headers instead, if theyre easily accessible, and able to be dropped out of the car while on jack stands, leaving both the LT and stock midpipes attached to their manifolds.

 

AR nothing on these cars with headers is easy. one thing you could do is go the route SUBatoi95 did and get the hig flow cats, so it doesnt effect emissions.

 

im not interested in a catted system at all, i could care less about having to change it every year, since i already do as is. i mean with me having a 6 right now, the exhaust manifolds are fairly easily accessible, didnt know if they were any or much harder to get to on the 4V with the OHC setup. changing a midpipe isnt any problem for me, i run an o/r setup on my current car, so its not like id be getting my head into anything deeper than it is already. i just wasnt sure if dropping the headers with it would make it any easier, you know unbolting it at the block instead of having to use extensions to reach the bolts at the bottom of the shorty headers from underneath the car.

 

Or you could just buy this one, http://www.performanceautosport.com/detail.asp?car=6066I would love to have this Mach..

 

that is 1 hell of a good price!

 

if i had that kind of money, sure. im also trying to stay away from red, white, grey or black. im really drawn to the orange and blue ones or at the least a yellow one. that car is damn nice though.... if that price tag was 10k less, i would definitely be looking at it.

 

unbolting the headers once a year would never be an option for me. To do so you gotta drop the kmember so its not quite as easy as 2 bolts on each side of the mipipe. You could just get a catted shorty x/h and bolt that in when you gotta do emissions.

 

^^ +1.. droping the headers is much more of a PITA than just a couple of bolts on the mids.. I'd say if you honestly don't mind having to change them out once a year, that Furinox's idea of getting a shorty cat'd h/x and bolting that onto a good set LT's would do the trick. If you don't mind having a hand held, you can tunes for both pipe sets loaded onto it and just flash between the two when you need to get inspected.

 

^ i didnt think about that....headers are $$$ tho

 

True, but even if he's running stock headers and an OR/X or H it would still work and it'd be much less of a pain the *** to do it.. All it'd require is a dyno tune and a hand held..