Ebay header question

[loonibab325i]

So how did you guys who have the supersprint knock off headers from ebay get those bad boys from not hitting your sway bar? cause i'm getting a bad clunking noise and it gets really annoying and actually kind of scary.. i don't want to get new headers or use the obd 2 exhaust manifolds because i just dumped near $700 on my exhaust setup and i dont really want to fuck with it anymore...

thanks in advanced.

-Abe

[golde30]

i chopped off the pipes above the engine arm and had the shop weld new pipes on.

[e30polak]

Hmmm...installed them recently, I just spaced the passenger side motor mount a 1/4 inch higher and I have no clearance issues.

[MR 325]

Hmmm...installed them recently, I just spaced the passenger side motor mount a 1/4 inch higher and I have no clearance issues.

Word. :)

[evil_twin]

Do they hit stock swaybars or aftermarket swaybars?

[etxxz]

^^ stock

Hmmm...installed them recently, I just spaced the passenger side motor mount a 1/4 inch higher and I have no clearance issues.

+1, but it was hitting the subframe, not the sway bar.. and you need to remove the heatshield off the pass side motor mount.

[JGood]

It's so close that will depend on your car. One of my down pipes was almost rubbing the subframe (as in, less then 1mm clearance), so I put a washer under the passenger motor mount arm, and now the other header is almost touching the heat shield on the body. If I pulled the motor out and put it back in, I bet it wouldn't be the same... and over time it won't be either, as the mounts wear and the motor settles.

[LINUS]

I just bent the header - but I suppose that's not much good for you since you already have the rest of your exhaust built.

I bent mine since they looked a little warped from the heat of welding - I didn't expect them to fit right straight out of the box. I doubt the jig the Chinese use is as good whatever SS has.

[loonibab325i]

yeah, i was thinking spacer between the motor mount.. i'll let you guys know what route I go and what it fixes, and yes i believe it also rubs on the subframe.

thanks for the tips guys.

-Abe.

[e30s52]

i just used a spacer and that worked for me. but there is almost no clearnence between the two sides. the biggest thing that i could fit between the two sides are a pencil

[DaN]

I had no clearance issues with the subframe or my ST swaybar. Must be a different style than yours. But it does fit pretty tight to the motor mount arm.

[e30polak]

It's so close that will depend on your car. One of my down pipes was almost rubbing the subframe (as in, less then 1mm clearance), so I put a washer under the passenger motor mount arm, and now the other header is almost touching the heat shield on the body. If I pulled the motor out and put it back in, I bet it wouldn't be the same... and over time it won't be either, as the mounts wear and the motor settles.

I have 3/16ths subframe clearance, but I had to use a pry bar and hammer to create space between the second header and the heat shield. Now I have about 1/16th clearance against the body.