PaddyPrix
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This was the combo from earlier, do if you don't have enough extensions, you might find this excruciatingly challenging trying to get in that small space on the side between ac lines and the factory header.
I was also rather lucky to have my precat o2 sensor rusted onto the exhaust bung. Let it soak, probably bent my o2 removal socket, definitely stripped it, and spent way too long on it. Respect for those wires pretty solid pressure needed to cut them, but finally get to see the pretty engine.
I'm also thankful that I ran out a day or so before to get the torx e-star sockets to remove those studs, because, at least on my own, I don't know how I would have been able to clear them from underneath facing the clearance issues.
Thought long and hard about whether I want to use the stock gasket and stock studs vs the stock gasket and supplied 14mm bolts vs new gasket and new bolts. Way too long. It was getting late so I just went with the stock gasket, put a few of the studs back in for alignment purposes and put a few upper bolts in again.
I was also rather lucky to have my precat o2 sensor rusted onto the exhaust bung. Let it soak, probably bent my o2 removal socket, definitely stripped it, and spent way too long on it. Respect for those wires pretty solid pressure needed to cut them, but finally get to see the pretty engine.
I'm also thankful that I ran out a day or so before to get the torx e-star sockets to remove those studs, because, at least on my own, I don't know how I would have been able to clear them from underneath facing the clearance issues.
Thought long and hard about whether I want to use the stock gasket and stock studs vs the stock gasket and supplied 14mm bolts vs new gasket and new bolts. Way too long. It was getting late so I just went with the stock gasket, put a few of the studs back in for alignment purposes and put a few upper bolts in again.
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