Exhaust Identification Help

[zeeman]

ok manifold is off. The heads are off.Things are being cleaned up, and prepared for reassembly.

[Lucky SOB]

ok manifold is off. The heads are off.Things are being cleaned up, and prepared for reassembly.

Congrats! That's a great feeling after working so hard. Pics?

[zeeman]

Damn , I didnt think of that, I'll try and get some tomorrow. I finished fabing up my replacement steam pipe. I may re do it. I forgot what a pain in the keester bending tubing is. I already have a better idea on how to re run the steam tube. I always have to see it before I can finalize it. I bent it around the egr valve and I didnt realize until afterwards I am deleting the egr.... duh!

Heads are cleaned up , new lifters are in. Still need to clean the intake and throttle body. Headers should be here tomorrow so I will drop those in place before I put the heads back on.

[zeeman]

yep, here they are

[JoeliusZ28]

Where did you find those!? Those are stainless pacesetter knockoffs! Pretty much the best header you can get and I havent seen them in production for a couple years, i just bought a used set earlier this summer!

edit: you wont have the fitament issues with these ones

[zeeman]

Where did you find those!? Those are stainless pacesetter knockoffs! Pretty much the best header you can get and I havent seen them in production for a couple years, i just bought a used set earlier this summer!

edit: you wont have the fitament issues with these ones

Tahts music to my ears. I found them on Fleabay. I have a habit of following links that show up as suggested items when I am looking at different items and they showed up at the bottom of a page. There were other sets in my watch list from the same store but they were a higher price. I paid $349.00 ,with the Y pipe. Nothing else came close.
He had a cat back with a bullet muffler that was $180.00 on sale. but he is here in Mi. so I would have had to pay tax and he wanted 40 for shipping. I almost pulled the trigger but then I reminded myself that I may want to go true duels at some point and the cat back on my car is pretty new so. I saved myself a few pesos. But it wasnt easy, all stainless exhaust, tail pipes included....... schweet.
Hes in troy. His ebay store is merchant sellers.

[JoeliusZ28]

[MENTION=393]Superman09[/MENTION] if you want to sell a header for the LT1 these are the ones you want to get a line on. Apparently they are still being produced somewhere since they are on ebay again, i havent seen them in a while.

[Superman09]

@Superman09 if you want to sell a header for the LT1 these are the ones you want to get a line on. Apparently they are still being produced somewhere since they are on ebay again, i havent seen them in a while.

Thanks! I'm on it!

[zeeman]

I have them bolted on, the drivers side is a bit close to the frame, like 1/4 inch away, and it actually rubs on the steering shafts plastic cover, so that'll have to go. The pas side, the bolt alignment was a bit off, couple of the bolts were a little reluctant to spin. That bugger is close to the shock tower, I had to reroute my wiring harness to go around the back of the head. I need to make up a keeper for that. Otherwise, they're on!
I still have to extend my o2 wiring harnesses, and install them. Then I can install the Y pipe. I just need to finish the rest of the engine repairs I have been working on. canr wait to hear it.

[JoeliusZ28]

I have them bolted on, the drivers side is a bit close to the frame, like 1/4 inch away, and it actually rubs on the steering shafts plastic cover, so that'll have to go. The pas side, the bolt alignment was a bit off, couple of the bolts were a little reluctant to spin. That bugger is close to the shock tower, I had to reroute my wiring harness to go around the back of the head. I need to make up a keeper for that. Otherwise, they're on!
I still have to extend my o2 wiring harnesses, and install them. Then I can install the Y pipe. I just need to finish the rest of the engine repairs I have been working on. canr wait to hear it.

If you saw how the "other" ebay headers fit, you'd quickly see that these issues are a drop in the bucket in comparison. I literally had to beat the hell out of every set i installed with sledgehammer... in multiple places. and sometimes even use a grinding wheel on the car.

Lets get some pics/vids!

[zeeman]

Uhggg! That makes my stomach hurt just thinking about it! I will post pics soon, but I am working on a write up on converting my opti to a vented unit. Well actually on venting my non vented unit would be more accurate.

Ill load some engine compartment pics here in a bit.

And as always thanks for all the help.

[zeeman]

from this:

to this, in a few short weeks! and a few hundred bux,

[zeeman]

I still need to pull the radiator and comb the fins on the back, and bend up some new tranny lines. Not to mention finish reassembly of the motor, but its coming together.

one more.

[zeeman]

She's all back together, and the best part is she runs pretty darn good! Well, with the exception of that vibration at w.o.t. Its a weird one.

Joel, if you are around this weekend and can spare the time to look at it I would appreciate it. I am down the road near 15 mile and Garfield.

[JoeliusZ28]

Whats the clearance of the driver side collector to the floor board? A lot of times they will hit there when the engine twists under torque on the engine mounts.