I took it to an exhaust shop and got it fixed. The flange on the midpipe was flared a little bit too much to fit the header, allowing it to slide to far over the header and hitting the flange. In theory Chad1986 was right, it was a bad part.
It does bottom out on it. I tightened the shit out of it to try to seal it up and it still leaks. I even put washers in to try to take up some of the slack on the bolts and it leaked worse.
mine has double bolted clamps. The drivers side sealed up fine with out a gasket, the passenger side on the other hand will not completely seal for life of me.
Are you guys making a gasket where the long tubes connect to the mid pipe or just bolting it together? I bolted mine together and I have a small leak that I can't get to go away no matter how I position the clamp. Curious if I could use high temp rtv to seal it.
So I'm going to be doing a clutch and was curious if I could run the calimer cocktail in a stock trans. Would it be ok or should I just put what ever ford calls for it?