Well the guy i was going to buy them off of, sold them. I'm keeping my eye out for some more tho!

 

How many of you all would be interested in a tech day to install longtubes on my car? lol. I was going to do it myself but if you all want to help Ill take you all up on it!

 

I'm sure Jared would love to help with your longtube..

 

 

Yea. But when??

 

Looks like my operation on the gallbladder will be next week,so i should be at the tech day.Think i will put in davids grill,and pick up the cam covers.

 

Cool! We could do that surgery for you ya know...

 

Only if doc shows up.

 

New poster I made. Enjoy.

 

nice... looks great other than that spoiler... lol =]

 

If anyone comes across a good deal on some udp,let me know

 

does it matter what brand? Steeda, bbk

 

Just put on my NX 150 Shot the car runs like a beast now here are some pics....

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Didn't work...

 

Probably in a month or maybe a little more. I should order the longtube(s) this weekend, but I still need a midpipe. I will be selling my shorties and midpipe so well see where that money goes too, maybe into buying a prochamber. I dont know if Im going to put my other cams in beforehand either (should have them at the end of this month). They will only take me a day or so to install though. Possibly two.

 

I found a nice little Longtube header install for the OBX headers....I might be going with these next spring

2 ton hydraulic jack and some jack stands
5mm end wrench
8mm end wrench
13mm end wrench
15mm end wrench
17mm end wrench
19mm end wrench
21mm end wrench
3/8 drive ratchet with 3 long extensions, and a swivel
Sockets (shallow and deep) for all sizes of wrenches mentioned above
1/2 inch ratcheting box end craftsman wrench (someone had suggested it and i am including it because i wished i had taken that advice...)

1. Jack up the car, set the E-brake and put her on jack stands.
2. Remove the battery and the battery tray
3. unplug all O2 sensors, but did not remove them from manifolds or h-pipe
4. unbolt the hpipe from the exhaust manifolds
5. remove the driveshaft loop type thing
6. remove the tranny crossmember bolts
7. loosen the pipe clamps on the H-pipe and wrestle it out from the car.
8. Remove the starter
9. remove the motor mount nuts on the K-member.
10. place a wood block ( I used a 2x6 about 8 inches long) under the oil pan and jack the motor up enough to get the mounts loose.
11. remove the motor mount brackets
12. Remove all nuts from exhaust manifolds (some guys like to just loosen the manifold nuts a bit and then remove the studs, but i only remove the studs that I could not get the headers over easily. this way the gaskets will hang on without trouble)
13. remove the exhaust manifolds.
14. Place gaskets on heads. I re-used the stock gaskets because they were nice and thin and in great shape.
15. remove old 02 sensors from old h-pipe
16. Install headers.
17. I extended the o2 sensors myself with a soldering iron and some high temp gasoline resistant wire and heat shrink tubing, otherwise install o2 sensor extensions.
18. install 02 sensors ans zip tie away from heat sources.
19. install h-pipe
20. re-install tranny crossmember.
21. re-install driveshaft loop thingy
22. get her off the jack and go for a drive! listen for leaks, and make sure you get the car up to operating temp.
23. let the car cool down and then re-torque everything.

I had to fire it up with open headers once just to hear it htough....and it was RADICAL sounding!!!

This job took me about 8 hours start to finish.

 

What brand is OBX? Maybe Im just stupid, but I have not seem them for my year(s). Mine should take about that long to install too, but maybe not if I just jack the engine up an inch which you can supposedly do too.

 

Wait I read that quick. I think it just said to jack the engine up too. Cool.

You should get longtubes, they will sound wicked

 

OBX is a chinese knock off of JBA headers I believe...everyone was skeptical of them at first because their 3x cheaper than Kooks and American Racing. BUT after a few members baught them and did the inspection/measuring they have found that they are actually very well made and are a great buy. T304 SS and the welds are perfect.




Here is the thread about them....the first few pages there are a lot of people and vendors bashing them because they arent made in america and are so cheap...but after that there are members installing them and buying them...and have a REAL opinion about them. Id rather pay $400 for a Longtube/H pipe setup than $1400 from ARH.

http://forums.bradbarnett.net/showthread.php?t=71541

 

Haha I think I have heard of them. They make stuff for imports I believe. What is the fitment like on them? Im about to read the thread.

$400 is a steal! What are those round tubes on the h pipe? Not cats I hope...