Header install, whats needed?

[divorced]

you dont use ANY gaskets???

Between the head and stock exhaust manifold - NO gaskets. Just be sure both surfaces are very clean and bolt them together.

Between the head and headers - stock exhaust manifold gaskets. I put the metal side toward the head and never have any problems. They are "drop-in" too, making for easy installation.

 

[Slapperbar]

Wow.

 

[dasanii19]

Yea what he said

 

[divorced]

Wow.

This seems sarcastic, but it's hard to detect sarcasm over the internet.

Wow what?



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[BlaKK54Speed]

well i guess if it works...... why not

 

[Slapperbar]

I guess.

 

[divorced]

You guess what? Could you please be a little more vague?

 

[dasanii19]

It may work but I have always heard to use gaskets on stock exhaust or headers.

 

[obijuan]

ive done a ford motor that didnt use any exhaust gasket on the head.

 

[divorced]

Quite a while ago when I was in highschool I knew very little about engines and had a local mechanic rebuild the 250 in my '81 C10. He was a machanic at a Chevy dealer and worked out of his own garage for cash. Anyway... I was in his shop talking to him about my engine when I noticed he was putting the exhaust manifolds on a 4.3 he rebuilt for an S10 without using any gaskets. I asked him about it and he said he never uses any gaskets there. I've been doing it ever since with no problems.

 

[BlaKK54Speed]

thats interesting, i wonder if it can be done with headers too?

 

[Chrisblazzer89]

thats interesting, i wonder if it can be done with headers too?

X2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[divorced]

thats interesting, i wonder if it can be done with headers too?

I've never tried it, but I don't think it would work very well.

 

[BlaKK54Speed]

you would think if it were a good idea, we would have heard of it by now....

 

[dasanii19]

April fools?