Date:         Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:27:17 -0400
Reply-To:     Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
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From:         Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: s&s header install and speedo question
Comments: To: "Chasteen, Jonathan M. MM3 (CVN69)" <chastejm@CVN69.NAVY.MIL>
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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

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Sam Walters
Baltimore, MD

89 Syncro GL, Zetec Inside
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