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sperry · 2011-01-06, 10:59 PM

The unfortunate reality is, on a modded turbo car, flex pipes before the turbo are basically wear items. You just can't run 1600F exhaust thru them day after day and expect them to survive.

An ELH might have better luck w/o the flex section though because the expansion angles might be different. I don't really have any experience with them. But trying to convert from flex to straight may not work. Certainly a sleeve would be better, not only because it handles expansion, but because you might have an easier time getting the repaired header to fit.

I'd give the repair a shot simply because the gaskets I was talking about that would leak on the ULH don't exist on the ELH. Just don't drop a ton of money trying to fix it, because you might end up just needing a whole new header.

2011-01-06, 10:59 PM	#9
sperry The Doink Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 20,335 Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata Class: PDX/TT-6 The way out is through	The unfortunate reality is, on a modded turbo car, flex pipes before the turbo are basically wear items. You just can't run 1600F exhaust thru them day after day and expect them to survive. An ELH might have better luck w/o the flex section though because the expansion angles might be different. I don't really have any experience with them. But trying to convert from flex to straight may not work. Certainly a sleeve would be better, not only because it handles expansion, but because you might have an easier time getting the repaired header to fit. I'd give the repair a shot simply because the gaskets I was talking about that would leak on the ULH don't exist on the ELH. Just don't drop a ton of money trying to fix it, because you might end up just needing a whole new header. __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?