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Old 2011-01-06, 11:10 PM   #11
supraluke
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Car: 2007 Subaru WRB STi
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Originally Posted by sperry View Post
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.
Thanks for you help. The repair would take around 3 hours and it's 90 bucks and hour. A new quality header cost between $1000 to over $2,000 like the one above (http://www.full-race.com/catalog/pro...oducts_id=1942

I don't want to gamble $300 bucks but spending another $1000 to rebuy another one is something I want to do even less.

Last edited by supraluke; 2011-01-06 at 11:12 PM.
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