brad1601
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So I've been tossing up the idea of putting headers on the mustang for a while now and I had noticed after browsing through the main part of the forum the American's have had some success with the "cheap" eBay headers, Maximizer is one of the brands I think. Anyway, I thought I'd have another look around to see if the Chinese had started making cheaper headers for RHD Mustang's yet (there was nothing last time I'd looked), sure enough I found these "TOG" headers listed for RHD mustangs selling for a great price. I did a bit of googling and found nothing on them in regards to their Mustang headers... but for the price (I paid $595 with eBay discounts) I though, why not! I'll give them a go. So that's where this post comes in... hopefully it will provide some information of help anyone who decides they want to go this route
So without further ado, here is some photos them when I first got them. To me the welds all looked great and I couldn't see any issues, however I'm no welding expert.
So after checking them over and everything looking good I decided I may as well get them ceramic coated, this is completely optional (the stock headers aren't coated) but it does help to keep the heat out of the engine bay.
After I got them back from ceramic coating it was time to get them on, so last weekend with the help of my father in law and his hoist we did the install.
Install:
The installation is a pain in the butt, just like all headers for the S550 mustangs, but there were a couple of small issues we found with these headers whilst doing the installation, but I'll detail them here so it will make it all pretty straightforward for anyone reading this.
The first issue we found was that the bottom bolt on the passenger side header furthermost to the rear of the car wouldn't fit into it's hole on the flange, no way, no how, the pipe just bends around too close. So that meant taking the header off again and slotting that hole, no big deal at all if we had of known about it previously, but it probably added an hour of stuffing around taking it back off and putting it back on again to get back to where we were up to. so take note and make sure you get your grinder and turn that hole into a slot.
The second issue and the one that was difficult to rectify for me, due to not noticing till the installation was completed, was the lack of clearance between one of the pipes on the drivers side header and the steering shaft. This seems to require nearly 10mm clearance with the torque movement of the motor to not touch and feel vibration through the steering wheel, it had about 1mm. This wouldn't have been a big deal at all if we had of known before they were on that we needed to dimple the pipe there, but once they were on it's taken a fair bit of stuffing around with big levers etc to gain some clearance there just due to access. So for this I recommend putting it in without bolting it up, marking the spot where the steering shaft is going to need clearance and then taking them out and dimpling the pipe, plenty of tutorials on the net of how to do that with the headers off the car. I'd go more rather than less as it doesn't effect performance having a dent in the header like that.
So how do they go?
Incredibly well in my opinion! I've got a Lund tune and a Borla touring cat back which i had an exhaust shop weld up to the new headers ($200) and it sounds awesome and has very noticeably faster pick up from about 2500RPM and that's coming from someone that quite often doesn't really notice the difference small mods make, so I'd say these are making quite significant gains.
So how do they sound?
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/G...nlPoLLIsz&c=WEB_EMBEDDED_PLAYER&cver=20181129
TLDR?
They go great. Install is a pain like all headers. You need to slot one of the holes on the passenger header and dent one of the pipes on the drivers side header to make extra clearance for the steering shaft. Bargain for $595.
Some Install photos:
So without further ado, here is some photos them when I first got them. To me the welds all looked great and I couldn't see any issues, however I'm no welding expert.
So after checking them over and everything looking good I decided I may as well get them ceramic coated, this is completely optional (the stock headers aren't coated) but it does help to keep the heat out of the engine bay.
After I got them back from ceramic coating it was time to get them on, so last weekend with the help of my father in law and his hoist we did the install.
Install:
The installation is a pain in the butt, just like all headers for the S550 mustangs, but there were a couple of small issues we found with these headers whilst doing the installation, but I'll detail them here so it will make it all pretty straightforward for anyone reading this.
The first issue we found was that the bottom bolt on the passenger side header furthermost to the rear of the car wouldn't fit into it's hole on the flange, no way, no how, the pipe just bends around too close. So that meant taking the header off again and slotting that hole, no big deal at all if we had of known about it previously, but it probably added an hour of stuffing around taking it back off and putting it back on again to get back to where we were up to. so take note and make sure you get your grinder and turn that hole into a slot.
The second issue and the one that was difficult to rectify for me, due to not noticing till the installation was completed, was the lack of clearance between one of the pipes on the drivers side header and the steering shaft. This seems to require nearly 10mm clearance with the torque movement of the motor to not touch and feel vibration through the steering wheel, it had about 1mm. This wouldn't have been a big deal at all if we had of known before they were on that we needed to dimple the pipe there, but once they were on it's taken a fair bit of stuffing around with big levers etc to gain some clearance there just due to access. So for this I recommend putting it in without bolting it up, marking the spot where the steering shaft is going to need clearance and then taking them out and dimpling the pipe, plenty of tutorials on the net of how to do that with the headers off the car. I'd go more rather than less as it doesn't effect performance having a dent in the header like that.
So how do they go?
Incredibly well in my opinion! I've got a Lund tune and a Borla touring cat back which i had an exhaust shop weld up to the new headers ($200) and it sounds awesome and has very noticeably faster pick up from about 2500RPM and that's coming from someone that quite often doesn't really notice the difference small mods make, so I'd say these are making quite significant gains.
So how do they sound?
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/G...nlPoLLIsz&c=WEB_EMBEDDED_PLAYER&cver=20181129
TLDR?
They go great. Install is a pain like all headers. You need to slot one of the holes on the passenger header and dent one of the pipes on the drivers side header to make extra clearance for the steering shaft. Bargain for $595.
Some Install photos:
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