Red25thRS

Hey guys tryin to finish this tonight so i can drive it tomorrow....im doing the passenger side header now....how do i remove the oil dipstick tube...once that is moved she will drop right in...someone plz chime in

Red25thRS

nevermind...looks like its just goin to the shop....been stuck on the pass side for 7 hours now.....will not drop in what so ever either hits the heatbox or the block its self or ac compressor....7 hours on that little of a thing is too much

IROCThe5.7L

You need to remove your passenger side motor mount, and unclip the air filter housing. Put a piece of wood under the oil pan, and slowly jack up the passenger side of the motor. Then drop the header in. The 2055's tell you to do this in the instructions. I also had to do this when installing mine.

Red25thRS

i jacked the motor up...still wont drop in

7plagues

iTrader: (1)

....mine just went in..hmmmm i dont have ac though.

IROCThe5.7L

You must not be doing it high enough then or something. After jacking it up, I had more than enough room to drop it in.

BulliTooth

i did mine just how iroc said, and i removed my dipstick i mean i broke it out i have ac and it fell right in.

Red25thRS

ok u guys were right i didnt jack it high enough....noww how do i tighten the very back bolt on the passenger side...i can not get on it for the life of me

90CamaroTBI

What are you supposed to do with the dipstick btw.

Red25thRS

i snapped the dipstick in half cuz i was soo angry....ohh then i get the headers in...ohh and the y pipe doesnt even come close to bolting up....hooker headers r junk...i will never buy a set again....guess i should test fitted the y pipe

90CamaroTBI

So it is supposed to come out during installation?

Red25thRS

yes u have to pull it out...or break it off...1 of the 2......to date this is the worst fit product i have bought

90CamaroTBI

Well I will let you know how the hedmans go.

Red25thRS

hopefully better than the junk i got

IROCThe5.7L

I had to position myself a certain way, and grind down a wrench to tighten the back bolt.

Red25thRS

ya once i got the headers on they fit nice...but my y pipe comes no where close to lining up

JB22

y-pipe get bent in shipping maybe?

Red25thRS

looks fine...but when u bolt one side up...the other is far off from lining up
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soo now one of my holes are stripped out so i dunno what to do....turning into a 5 day job now

IROCThe5.7L

I understand this is not going to make any sense. But I had a similiar problem. I had trouble getting it to line up. I just played with it, and got it to fit perfectly. I don't know if it had to do with the angle I was at or what. But in the end, the headers fit great, y pipe fits awesome under the car, and I added 2 mph to my 1/4.

Also, try not tightening one side, then doing the other. Start one side, and then start the other side.

BulliTooth

hmm my y pipe sliped on nice. ya i broke the dip stick out of anger...lol i ordered a new one threw my local gm dealer for like 10 bucks or somthing. but the new one dosnt show the right oil level, its not a big deal for me cause i only put about 500 miles a year on it.

90CamaroTBI

How are you supposed to get the dipstick out?

Nate86

Remove the bolt from the manifold and then just pull 'er out.

90CamaroTBI

so the dipstick is bolted in?

Nate86

As far as I can remember, yes. It'll take some effort to pull it out though, and probably just as much to put it back in. I had to tap it into place with a ballpeen hammer to seat it back into the block correctly.

Make sure you definately put it back in there, though. I made that mistake after installing my 2055s and it lost about 1 1/2 quarts of oil which dripped down onto my y-pipe. Not cool at all.

90CamaroTBI

Wont it leak after putting it back in? does yours?

Red25thRS

well i finally got it all bolted up....any sugesstions on how to reach the plugs....they are a pain to get now.....i just have to bolt up my spintech catback and itll be back on the road again...ohh and a new dipstick....One more ?...what is ur guys opinions on hooker going to ball flanges...i dont like them personally...ohhh and my oxygen sensor....it mounts on the opposite way then when it was in the manifolds so the harness doesnt reach....do i just need to do some splicing

Syn

just cut and splice and lengthen. solder the wires and shirnk rap imo

Nate86

90CamaroTBI, nope. Doesn't leak at all. Just make sure you fully seat it back down when you reinstall it. I'd recommend having a partner look at the tube from the bottom of the car and tell you how far down to push it in. Takes the guesswork out.

Red25thRS, I had a hard time with the plugs at first, too. I couldn't get at them with a standard socket because the primaries got in the way, and the plugs would get loose and cause misfires. I picked up a set of angled box end wrenches from AutoZone and they work perfectly for getting those hard to reach spark plugs. I highly recommend them for easy spark plug installation... they are $19.99 at AZ and they look like standard wrenches except they have a curve in the neck right before the end.

The ball flanges work ok on my car. Hooker makes them extremely narrow, almost to the point where it seems like it would hurt performance (although I've never heard any complaints from anyone with 2055s). I have to agree with you that it's one of the few things that I disliked about these headers. However, I had a friend of mine open the flanges up by a pretty good bit so it's not really a problem for me. No leaks either.

Personally, I would buy an AC Delco O2 sensor. My Bosch O2 didn't strech far enough so I decided to buy an AC Delco (after hearing about how crappy the Bosch O2s are). Fits snug, but not bad enough to cause problems, and the car runs a lot better than it did with the Bosch part in there--no lie... it definately made a noticable difference. Plus, the AC Delco sensor is only $5 more than the Bosch sensor, and that was a price from the GM parts dealer.

90CamaroTBI

Where did you pick up the GM sensor and how much was it like $35?

Nate86

My local GM dealer parts department sells them for $25.

Head to a GM dealer in your town and ask them for a price.

90CamaroTBI

Ok thats cool because I had went to carquest and they charged me $28 but then when I left I saw the damn bosche symbol on there and was like man.....

Red25thRS

well everything is back together.....what an insane diff in power now.....not to mention it sounds like 800 times better now....i do have a question and it my sounds dumb....but its normal for it to smoke once it warms up in the engine bay...becuz i handled the headers with really dirty greasy hands.....i can see where the smoke comes from...im just thinkin its burnin the grease off?

obeymybird

iTrader: (4)

yea its normal if they are just plain black hi temp coated ones they will burn thats stuff right off then they will start to rust

Red25thRS

ya they are the black ones....just makin sure...cuz i checked to make sure nothin was layin on the headers...so it must be the paint and grease baking off