Can you guess what it is?

 

Crack? Bad exhaust leak?

 

You won!

I always wondered how long the Ebay cheapies would last and now I know. About 4 years. But that probably wouldn't have happened if the y-pipe wasn't holding pressure on them. I had to squeeze the y-pipe together to get it to fit on the headers after I installed them.
But that's nothing the Lincoln can't fix, just need to get some new bolts.
I thought that this noise I've been hearing was just the roller rockers because I didn't notice it until after I installed them and the whole time I've thought it sounded like an exhaust leak.
I finally got in there and looked the headers over to check for soot and it wasn't too hard to find that crack.

 

shoulda got gibsons or longtubes????

 

Nah, the plan when I got them was to patch them up when the motor blew holes in them.

 

mig that bitch

 

I don't think long tubes would be the answer mine blew the gasket on the drivers side and I have stage 8's holding them in.

 

I got it fixed today. At least I hope I did. And now I feel like frosty the snowman.

I put my old Champion truck plugs back in there and ditched the heat shields too because I get spark knock every now and then depending on the tune and the gas I get. I assumed that the .065 gap on the Bosch Platinum +4 might have something to do with it.
I also figured that there would never be a better time to change the plugs then when the header was off on the hard side of the engine.

I modified a wrench and anyone that is thinking of getting shorty headers should do this to a wrench because it made things so much easier.



Oh, and it's really easy to hang out in one spot a second too long and blow a hole in that paper thin metal, you can see where I did it twice in the picture.


If you're going to modify a wrench yourself then either wear a gas mask while you do it or hold your breath, weld quickly, get away then breath. When you weld chrome vanadium it puts off toxic fumes.