ALL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its soooooooo loud holy ****! I think i have a small leak somehwere on the exhaust because i heard a little hissing noise. But it seemed to go away once it got a little warmer. I cant run car very long because its in my garage under my house and the fumes got pretty bad, so tomorrow i will put insurance back on here and do a proper test drive

Woot! CG's! Now to wait patiently for some header pron.

Congratulations!!!

Mods, can we now change this thread's title to "Why you shouldn't install headers yourself" LOL

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I tend to sort of agree. I can understand if you can't do it yourself, but there is a bit of pride to doing it on your own. That being said, I do farm out a lot of my stuff now, not because I can't do it, but with two full time jobs, I can earn more money in the time I would take to do it myself than I have to pay to have it done, and I love freeing a garage space up and leaving my car at Z1 for weeks at a time (not because they are slow, but because they are far away.) I usually drop it off on the way home from a track day in Alabama and pick it up right before the next one when I need stuff done.

With headers and test pipes some hissing is going to exist on deceleration. It's just the nature of the VQ. Now if you're hearing is an acceleration then there is a problem.

Video video video!! I have to hear this thing cold start and fly bys !

Im uploading vids now, sorry no fly bys yet. There is still 2 feet of snow on the ground lol. I just have a cold start, some revs inside the cabin, and some about 15 feet behind. I will get better video tomorrow, and also throw up an album of all the pics i took during the project.


I still need to put the steering together, and somehow get the bar back on that supports the test pipes, but it does not line up right, will i be fine without it? Still have plenty of time to figure it out

20130216_212748.mp4 - YouTube

Momentum Headers - YouTube

You can run without it. Some HFC's and TP's don't even have support mounts on them. My TP's didn't line up very well either, I ended up bending the bracket to get it to work.

The hiss is really prominent, almost sounds like a cheesy supercharger or turbo blow off in person. I don't really mind, im just stoked its all done. And yes, mods can rename and sticky this thread as "why not to install headers yourself, unless you want to spend up to 20 hours of painful labor, about 100 bucks in extra tools, headaches, heart attacks, scarred arms, bruised ego, and cry yourself to sleep every night until the job gets finished" :-)

Hahahaha yeah that's pretty much the case.

The hiss is totally normal, I actually took my car to two different shops thinking I had screwed up and they did every test known to man. That's just the sound our cars make for some reason... Congrats on it being done!

And I didn't mean to come off like a **** about the self installation thing, I was thinking more of the super rich arrogant ******** that throw $100k at their car and then brag about what "they" did to it. I just like the sense of accomplishment that comes with doing things yourself, but I totally get that not everyone is able to do the same, nor does everyone have the time or the interest in doing it themselves. It's fine with me because that's how I make extra money! :bowrofl:


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Oh and ts, if you just haven't heard the system yet you can check out this video as well as the it her videos I've uploaded. http://youtu.be/hA6e1-6cujY


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Sweet, i wont worry about the hiss. I was going to take the Z out for a spin, but i don't have tail lights... Totally forgot i am waiting on those puppies.

I just want to throw out a huge THANK YOU for everyone who helped me out! I would have never finished, or even started if it wasn't for everyone's help. You all have been awesome!

I don't have the support bar anymore either. Its no big deal

Sweet, thanks for the info mike.