Thread: Bad surprises w/ header install :( abs/tcs light.. Crappy mpg, misfires :(

Just one note(ok a few): make sure you don't get the dielectric grease on the metal contact or it will corrode it again. Take sandpaper and clean up the prongs on the coil packs. If the wires have corroded contacts, just get new OEM ones.

Originally Posted by GtpKo

Just one note(ok a few): make sure you don't get the dielectric grease on the metal contact or it will corrode it again. Take sandpaper and clean up the prongs on the coil packs. If the wires have corroded contacts, just get new OEM ones.

ok cool,
but i went to freakin autozone.. all they had was the cheap ones (well for me they sound cheap.. DURALAST haha) & also the BOSCH
or where can i get em? napa? & how much would it be?

Soooo WOTGTP stopped over with headers yesterday afternoon. If he arrived at 4pm... We ran into major issues for a header install. He drove home a little before 11pm. We actually worked on it about 4, maybe 5 hours.

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

Soooo WOTGTP stopped over with headers yesterday afternoon. If he arrived at 4pm... We ran into major issues for a header install. He drove home a little before 11pm. We actually worked on it about 4, maybe 5 hours.

damn u.u


what kinda issues?

His car had been modded before and it's becoming clearer that it was even more modded than it is now. He found rockers, springs and a 3.8mps. The car probably had headers before, some bolts were super tight etc.

One of the studs in the head broke when trying to remove the nut from it. That never happens, never. With him holding the mirror and light, I freehand drilled it with a right angle drill. Then a trip to Sears for an extractor. Got it out and breathed a sigh of relief. Later on with the piece in the vice to remove it from the extractor, the extractor broke. I smiled and thought...that's the best time it could have chosen to break.

Oh..and somehow a SC plastic wire holder found it's way onto the motor, making his cool red wires look nice and neat.