First of all- sorry shott. I have the same Eddelbrock shorties that you've had problems with. I live in the South where they don't often salt the roads. The headers look exactly like they did when I put them on. They do, however, put off alot of heat. Heat to the point that the intake tube on the FIPK has bent slightly, and now rests on the bottom edge of the hole in the intake shield. While re-chraging my a/c, I figured out that this was the cause of a slight knock that I was hearing when the engine was cold. When the tube cooled down it tried to regain it's original shape. It rose up about 1/8" off the heat shield, and would vibrate against it until the headers heated the tube up enough to lay back down on the shield. I am now thinking about a different "cold air intake" along the lines that the engineers did with the original airbox. You know, not swooping down right over top of the exhaust manifold. I saw one where the filter is right where the original plenum went into the fender well. Does anyone remember what that setup was called?