I have an exhaust leak coming from the passenger side of the engine i tighten the header bolts i also did a needle nose pliers holding a small piece of paper but could not determine were the leak is coming from i noticed a small leak behind the intake manifold to engine block below distributor area could that be my cause of exhaust leak or what other tips can i use to determine my exhaust leak

 

Using periods are your friends. check your header gasket..

 

Sorry for not using period i got carried in my train of thought. I double checked the gasket before but the leak/sound comes from below i think either header collector or behind engine/manifold.

 

welcome to the wonderful world of headers!! where exhaust leaks are free ,but the fix isn't!!

 

that is true

 

Are you running long tubes or shorties?? you could have a leak coming from the Y pipe if ya got shorties. Ahhh header leak noise, its annoying.

 

Im running slp shorties with matching y pipe. Im almost positive its coming from the y pipe . The header bolts are tight, but the noise is coming from the right bank below the header.

 

I figured it out its the no. 8 exhaust on the header an exhaust shop is going to take care of that for me

 

Copper gaskets are less likely to blow out again. Cost a little more but save a lot of aggravation. Also locking header bolts.

 

And can be used again copper gasket and have been looking into the locking header bolts well see as soon as the paycheck and saving up goes on