So I bought a used set of the Alphawerks headers, and I am missing one of the three O-ring/gaskets that come with them. I was wondering if this is a part that any auto parts store should carry or if it is something that can only be purchased directly through Alphawerks? I'm supposed to get them installed on Monday and it would suck if I have to wait just for an o-ring. Thanks for any help.

 

Header mating peice should be the same as OEM.

 

If you bought the latest batch, you have 2 flat gaskets for the header to the down pipe whereas the earleir versions have a groove machined in the flanges like the original and use the oe gaskets. The pipe to cat gasket doesn't come with the latest batch of headers and the oe o-ring won't fit. The latest batch are have had aproblem with the flanges being warped. If you have these don't even try to find a gasket, don't try to put them on, send them back and save yourself a lot of headaches. I hope you didn't buy these off of Ebay. Do a search. Ask me how I know.

 

These are the older batch, I bought them off bigguyonbike from the black market, he claimed there was no fitment issues or resonance and the welds look excellent to me. There is a groove in them. I didn't know that stock headers have that same design though, I will just get stock exhaust flanges and they should fit, correct?

 

sorry about that, i thought i sent all of them. no need to worry, a stock o-ring should fit without any problem. just make sure the alphawerks label faces the rear of the engine and everything should be fine.

 

Oh, no worries. They look great otherwise! I'll just buy three new ones, there like $4 a piece.