Has anyone here ever replaced there header if so is it a hard job? Thanks

 

I had someone put my header on.
It shouldn't be too hard though. The only thing I noticed that would be a pain is the fact that there isn't a great amount of space down there to work with.

 

i did mine myself. it was sort of a pain in the *** because your stock bolts will have a bit of rust on them. but its not tooo bad

 

the level of difficulty changes on which header you intend to buy.

you have 2 choices...

Short Tube
Long Tube


The Difference you ask??

Short tubes are simple bolt ons. Take off the old Exhaust manifold, cut to the cat, stick a collector in, attatch the header, weld, and Viola! Simple job! The only problem is there is very little room behind our little engines to work. So I suspect if you had a couple friends helping it would take maybe 3 hours or more.

The minus... you will see little gains if any. Short tube headers are a vast improvement over stock and do aleviate some addition weight (i want to say like 5-7 lbs of cast iron) but they add very little in the long run of performance.


Long tube headers on the other hand are a very different story. Long tube headers are a very big improvement over stock and short tubes alike. You have to do alot more work though. You have clearence issues with the firewall... you have to re-work the exhaust to make it fit right... and is a big no no if you have any sort of emissions testing (AT ALL) as you will never pass. It is considered a race-only mod in my book. That or your going for the meanest N/A neon around... I would say typical install time would be quite lengthy.


Mid-tube headers I have no experience with. Someone else will be able to shout out on that if need be.


I would recommend the short tube if you are looking for something simple to do and to give you some ok gains.

 

well said freerider..well said.. I would go with the short tube headers just because they are much more simpler to install than the others and even tho there is not much of a power gain, there is still some power gain for less money. so yeah

 

Would you guys buy those cheap ones they sell on ebay for like 200 bucks?

 

For the obx headers, you're not going to use the downpipe, and end up paying almost $200 dollars for JUST the header. Pacesetters will be even lesser quality and almost just as expensive.

So yeah, prices really suck for that. I'm trying to get a used R/T header.

2000-2005, all R/T's would still almost be a borla header right?

 

yes, an r/t exhaust manifold is the equivalant of a orla header... but they are just as hard to find now-a-days...

 

Just remember that u get what u pay for. I'm replacing my pacesetter.

 

I put on a header and pipe I bought off ebay. Works good in the high range but the auto still is sluggish in the low and mid. Mine took all of about 1 hour to do. But I did it at work where I have a lift and air tools. The pipe replaced the cat, which is ok seeing as there isn't inspection here in Fl. The bad part is that w/o the cat the car was loud so I also added a resonator that was a little quieter and gives the car a good sound.