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?
I'm thinking it's because I'm catless, as well as the tune. There are plenty of catless cars where I am and they're passing with out issue. For some reason mine won't go green. I ordered cats and I'm going to try a new tune and see what happens. If it doesn't work then its going back to stock.
Putting the car back to stock is not an option as I do not have time to take everything off. The headers alone are a huge pita. The only difference between OP and I is that I'm catless. I'm wondering if I put high flow cats on if it will help the monitors set.