DIY , Stillen Header with Berk HFC

Megan370z

all wrapped and ready to go
temporally install a bolt at the Y-pipe to the HFC to hold them in place while you install the bolts on the header


now that damn plug that I had some difficulty yesterday , I decided to sit on the radiator and get my arm in the back of the engine to reach by behind the plug and have access with with my right hand on the plug at the same time . it was quite easy and don't forget to put back the cable in 2 of his retaining clip in the back



that is the only bolt I was able to use the ratchet by under the car , every other bolt was done with the ratchet wrench

I barely had to use that one ... but its always nice to have around.




The passenger since was soo much easier than the drive side , I'm not kidding everything was fast , took less than an hour to have it removed and pretty much the same with the install ,
I used the same tools for the driver side , so use your imagination if one doesn't work but surely the other one will work better.









ready to be installed !


a odd place where to have access to the header bolt , the one closest of the passenger side the bottom one.
I had to get right by the wheel with extension and swivel then everything went quite well !



OK here a tip if you want to avoid a bad situation that happened to me this morning .
On the driver side where I started first , when I removed the header , I reinstalled one of the stud back to the engine head and it wasnt screwed in correctly and was not straight , I installed the header with a bit of difficulty because I never saw the stud was not straight , I bolted 3 nuts ( 45 mins ) then when I got to that stud , I was like OH %$#! ....

I must say I wasn't happy , I removed back the header (another 45 mins ) then processed to get that stud back the way it should .. there is now about 1/3 of cross threaded because last night I didn't pay attention to it , it was hard to screw it back-in to compare with the 3 others one that came off .
It took me 80 mins yes , 80 mins to finally have that stud back in properly .
Then on the passenger side the last stud happened to be the same situation but I got it right at the beginning < I made sure it get screw back in correctly ,