sidemarker

How the heck do u remove the rear header

from the top or bottom


i lifted my car today and i dont know how i can get to it

and how do u remove the top bolt to the downpipe to the cat

the two side bolts look easy but that top one looks hard to get out because of the location

i really need help with the rear header

do i get on top of the motor and remove the stock strut bar to get access to the rear header???

sidemarker

sidemarker

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Shawn S

My two friends and I just installed the Comptech Headers on my car this morning.

The rear header is dropped DOWN and out the bottom of the car after the A-Pipe is removed.
You do need to take a few of the nuts off from the TOP of the engine so make sure you have lots of different length socket extensions to reach down there.
The stock upper strut bar stayed in place, but we did need to remove the Neuspeed bar to reach down through there.

The one CAT bolt gave us trouble, but it came off after a little “persuasion”.

Shawn S

sidemarker

but after visualizing everything

how can u get your arm back there to reach the rear header with all the stuff in the way like

the stock upper strut bar and etcs

what side of the car did u reach to unbolt the rear header from the engine?

what tools did u use to take off that awfull bolt from the a pipe to the cat?

was the o2 sensor difficult to take off too?

sidemarker

Shawn S

It fits…..expect BLOOD & SCRATCHES, but it fits.
I talked with my friend who was under the car and he said they removed the stock manifold & all nuts from BELOW.
The Comptech Headers took up more space under there so they had to be tightened from ABOVE.


I think we got everything from the passenger side since the block is closer to that side.


O2 sensor was removed with an adjustable wrench.

Shawn S