

| Subject: | Re: s&s header install and speedo question |
| From: | Sam Walters |
| Date: | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:27:17 -0400 |
There are numerous accounts of installing the S&S headers in the archives. Different people have had different experiences regarding the degree of difficulty of the install. Part of what you need to do applies to installing all exhaust system on the WBX. Put studs on one cylinder of each set of pipe and use bolts for the other cylinder for that pipe. Hang the pipe on the studs, just begin to thread on a nut and washer and then see if you can put in the bolts for that pipe, again just barely getting the threading going. Repeat for the other pipe. Then proceed to try to get the bolts and nuts in that connect the pipes to the collectors. After (and if) the whole system is together loosely, then gradually proceed to tighten everything up. Of course, you put in the various appropriate gaskets. Anti seize compound is a good idea for most of the nuts and bolt that join the pipe together and the pipes to the cat and the muffler and tailpipe. You can look on the Tire Rack site, the tire manufacturers site, and / or in the archives to find the revolutions per mile of the tire you are going to install and that to which your odometer is calibrated. No, you can't change the odometer, but by comparing the revs per mile of the two tires, you can calculate how far off the new tires are and how much they under-report your actual speed. Sam -- Sam Walters Baltimore, MD 89 Syncro GL, Zetec Inside 85 Westy Weekender 85 Mercedes Benz 300D Turbodiesel - to become veggie oil powered All incoming and outgoing email scanned by automatically updated copy of Norton AntiVirus.
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