I'm in the middle of installing the megan headers right now.
well i had to stop around lunch today as some friends i havent seen in a long time stopped by while i was working on my car. closed garage, showerd and headed out. i just got back.
they are nice quality!! and shaped just like the dc and nismo headers.
I got them off ebay for 190 shipped to my door. I thought they were going to be crap but it turns out they are really stainless steel headers, with good welds, bends, and nothing looks cheap on it. and they are bling!!bling!!. I let everyone know what i think when they are finally on the car. so far heat shields, are off cats, alot of stuff is removed from up above. and i only have 1 bolt to go on the passenger side and 4 on the drivers side and they will be coming out. I have to disconnect the steering column ujoint also. It is very time consuming. I have big hands and space is tight. alot of patience here. the most frustrating are the coolant hardpipes on bothe sides which are a bitch to get out.
every hose clamp was completely upside down and i spend most of my time trying to twist them around just so i could grab the needle nose pliers and unclamp them.
I just waled into the garage to grab a soda out of the fridge and gave the collant pipes the middle finger.
Its to dark and i'm not going to finish untill tomorrow.
This is like the hardest mod to do on the Z and I knew what i was getting into but jackstands and lying on you're back isnt so bad.
As far as test pipes i would install them with the headers at the same time. getting those cats of the manifold will be a major bitch. I think its best to pull out the header and cat together and just swap over O2 sensors, this would be ideal.
from what i can see so far all piping beyond the y pipe and the stock muffler look pretty darn good and i feel no need to change out the entire exhuast system if you like the sound you have right now.
if not go for it and get a new exhuast. no one has a pic of the y pipe with its shielding off.
when i get mine i will post pics of the y pipe with the shielding on and then off.
also i noticed with these new headers that tomorrow i will have to go out and buy some heat shielding and wrap the fuel line and ac line from the header because the clearance will be close.
Hey toykilla isn't it true that little if no extra power is made from the headers if you go FI??
http://www.350z-tech.com/forums/index.php?...e=post&id=11848
here is a picture of the headers on this forum.
ohh and good work on the header and cam section of wiki toykilla.
have you noticed the plenum spacer questions seem to have stopped!!
so 350z-tech has finally gotten to that point. Nice!