Stillen Headers + Berk HFCs self-install report

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Yes that's the same spot mine hits at. It won't destroy anything in the short term, you just don't want to hear it rattling. After I failed to get it clear myself, I went to a nearby random exhaust place earlier in the week, and they didn't do much good either.

Then I hit a well-known performance shop around here early this morning, who in turn referred me to a muffler shop down the road where they said the guy was an exhaust genius. Just got back from there. He got me clear of the crossmember and the rear swaybar and those diagonal links, but it took some pretty intense tweaking (he heated up the pipes at a couple of strategic points with a torch and bent them a little).

He also welded up the slip-fit seams for me. I'm definitely not rattling against anything anymore. I'm going to get under it tonight again myself and try to triple-check the bolts on the headers (and everything else) to make sure I'm not leaking (it's hard to tell rasp from leak under load, at least for me). I'm hoping I find a loose bolt or a failed gasket somewhere honestly, because the rasp is kinda intense. Regardless, I think a design with some kind of flex joints up in the Y-pipe section (like the stock ones had) would probably cut some of the rasp though.

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