Installed Satin Ceramic TOG Headers

On 1/21/2006 I installed a set of Satin Ceramic coated The Other Guy (TOG) Headers.  I used Hulkspeed's garage and I had the room and the help to get things done smoothly.  The install took me about 6-7 hours and went surprisingly smooth.  I bought the TOGs from ZZP so that I could get the free pre-bent tranny dipstick tube.  The stock tube is in the way of the cross-over and needs to be modified or replaced with a flexible or pre-bent tube.  Here is a list of the steps that I followed:

• Removed front exhaust manifold
• Removed throttle body for some extra working room
• Removed cross-over (broke one of the 4 bolts in the process)
• Removed downpipe
• Removed rear exhaust manifold
• Removed both wheels and flipped the sway bar for extra clearance
• Installed rear header
• Replaced transmission dipstick with pre-bent one
• Installed front header
• Installed cross-over
• Cut downpipe
• Temporarily clamped the cat converter to the TOG downpipe
• Took car to exhaust shop to have TOG downpipe welded to cat converter

A few days after installing the headers, I got an SES (service engine soon) light for my front oxygen sensor going bad.  I will be replacing it soon so I can continue with the tuning.  Anyway, here are a few pictures from that day.

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