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[randeez]

No cats, no emissions testing

Collector on driverside is doesnt have much room on topside between cab floor and then goes right into a 90 under the transmission.
Even dropping the crossmember you still had to take that 90 off both ends to get the slip joints apart. Vbands ahould let me weld ypipe up as one peice getting rid of a few more joints that cant leak

 

[992dr]

I'll modify the header to accommodate the cat. I had to modify the cat for such small quarters, haha. Its only about 5.5" long. I have a picture of it somewhere. It started as a 2.5" in/out cat that I cut down to 3" in/out. Made it dramatically smaller, haha. I turned it down a little more after this picture was taken.

Are the speed kits a slip fit system?

 

[randeez]

Yes, speed eng is slip fit. I have the 1-7/8 they also make 1-3/4 that may have better clearance. Driverside my guy is cutting the collector back to about the o2 sensor bung for the vband to fit. Ill take some better pics when i get headers back from him as i put them back on.
Passenger side has plenty of room for a cat before the ypipe merges

 

[swathdiver]

and I am usually out at pbir for test and tune friday nights, I will usually run my truck if ive made any changes (none lately) sometimes just go to hang out

Where do you call home? Was going to run on the 16th but if I read right, it's $50 to race that night competitively, "Truck Yeah", and all I want to do is test and tune so maybe this coming Friday.

 

[randeez]

Im in jupiter....there's only a handful of trucks/suvs i see regularly for T&T
id defnintely say do a friday if you want to run, be there early...passed few weeks have been crowded as hell. street tire cars only get a few runs in before they kick them out for DR/slicks @9pm> actually just looked at pbir facebook page, looks like theyre letting any tire run all night, opening wednesday for DR/slick only

 

[swathdiver]

When I used to race, they had test and tune twice a week and Hollywood's track ran t&t on tuesday and West Palm's on wednesday and both Friday. So, the craziest amongst us, drove to both tracks each week until they closed Hollywood. The earliest I think we can get there is around 7:30. Probably only good then for one or two passes right? It's looking like the 15th would be our night.

 

[Doubeleive]

I personally gave up on headers, I am just to heavy footed for them I guess, if they weren't leaking then they were cracking, weld and fix, crack again somewhere else, leak, crack, screw it

 

[992dr]

I personally gave up on headers, I am just to heavy footed for them I guess, if they weren't leaking then they were cracking, weld and fix, crack again somewhere else, leak, crack, screw it

That's too bad.
What headers did you experience this with? Where did they crack?

Nice avator

 

[randeez]

Vband to collector done....wont have time to do ypipe, but i got it all mocked up and i should be able to pull it out without taking out the trans crossmember
Driverside wasn't close enough to o2 bung, had to trim and flatten out body under there

Cars and coffee this mornin in west palm

 

[992dr]

Nice man, lookin good.
Did you weld them up?

I miss C&C, they don't happen in my neck of the woods. At least I haven't heard of any yet Kinda new to the area to
My family has a condo in South Palm, love it down there.

 

[Doubeleive]

That's too bad.
What headers did you experience this with? Where did they crack?

Nice avator

multiple brands over the years, they all cracked almost anywhere or leaked or both, its probably just me I am pretty ******* things (good old cast iron for me now)
I can say when I had my 4-runner years ago I had the TRD headers on it which is a good brand there headers cracked probably 8-10 times and they were under warranty so they kept welding them and sending me down the road after the 3 yrs warranty was just about to run out they had cracked again and they ended up giving me a brand new revised set of headers which had some kind of spring system design and those lasted until I rolled it upside down and just fubared the whole truck.

 

[randeez]

Nope my welding looks nothing like that!

Friend of mine getting it done. Hes finishing up a procharged, forged 5.3ls powered 93 rx7 ...ill grab a few pics next time im over there

 

[992dr]

multiple brands over the years, they all cracked almost anywhere or leaked or both, its probably just me I am pretty ******* things (good old cast iron for me now)
I can say when I had my 4-runner years ago I had the TRD headers on it which is a good brand there headers cracked probably 8-10 times and they were under warranty so they kept welding them and sending me down the road after the 3 yrs warranty was just about to run out they had cracked again and they ended up giving me a brand new revised set of headers which had some kind of spring system design and those lasted until I rolled it upside down and just fubared the whole truck.

Really, that's terrible. I've used JBA, Kooks and Thorley. None of which ever leaked or cracked. Thorleys are still going strong. Another random thing, I never re-torqued the header bolts once they were installed. I guess its just luck (knock on wood )

That sounds like an interesting and wild ride in that 4-Runner. Hope everyone was ok.

Nope my welding looks nothing like that!

Friend of mine getting it done. Hes finishing up a procharged, forged 5.3ls powered 93 rx7 ...ill grab a few pics next time im over there

Hahaha, gotcha.

Ooohhhh nice. Please do. That sounds like an insane car. Where we used to live there was a C&C and a guy with an LS swapped FD R-7 with a wide-body kit installed. Man what a looker, car was saaaweeeet.
Lookin forward to those pics.

 

[Doubeleive]

Really, that's terrible. I've used JBA, Kooks and Thorley. None of which ever leaked or cracked. Thorleys are still going strong. Another random thing, I never re-torqued the header bolts once they were installed. I guess its just luck (knock on wood )

That sounds like an interesting and wild ride in that 4-Runner. Hope everyone was ok.



Hahaha, gotcha.

Ooohhhh nice. Please do. That sounds like an insane car. Where we used to live there was a C&C and a guy with an LS swapped FD R-7 with a wide-body kit installed. Man what a looker, car was saaaweeeet.
Lookin forward to those pics.

it was just me and I was doing about a hundred in the rain and the back tires were a little baldy, went to take the off ramp off the freeway she started to slide on me and I was headed dead center for a light pole, I managed to avoid the pole and thought I was just going to end up in the grass but no low and behold there was a culvert built there with bricks around it, hit that with my front axle and flipped front ways all the way over, I had a big subwoofer box in the back it went out the back window and ya it was a ah **** moment, atleast I had my seat belt on. managed to convince the highway patrol that came along that it was just the rain and my slightly bald back tires. I saved that thing in my back yard for about 2yrs I was going to cut the top off and make it a all off road vehicle but just ended up selling it to the salvage yard, i'll get another one someday when I don't have 4 kids to haul around all the time even though they would fit's its just less hassle with a bigger vehicle.
the worst part of all that was I had just taken the 4 runner off of full coverage insurance about 30 days before that-so mad

 

[992dr]

it was just me and I was doing about a hundred in the rain and the back tires were a little baldy, went to take the off ramp off the freeway she started to slide on me and I was headed dead center for a light pole, I managed to avoid the pole and thought I was just going to end up in the grass but no low and behold there was a culvert built there with bricks around it, hit that with my front axle and flipped front ways all the way over, I had a big subwoofer box in the back it went out the back window and ya it was a ah **** moment, atleast I had my seat belt on. managed to convince the highway patrol that came along that it was just the rain and my slightly bald back tires. I saved that thing in my back yard for about 2yrs I was going to cut the top off and make it a all off road vehicle but just ended up selling it to the salvage yard, i'll get another one someday when I don't have 4 kids to haul around all the time even though they would fit's its just less hassle with a bigger vehicle.
the worst part of all that was I had just taken the 4 runner off of full coverage insurance about 30 days before that-so mad

Damn, that sucks. Talk about a wild ride. Glad you walked away unharmed.
4-Runners are pretty cool, easy to mod and make crazy flex suspensions. There's a Taco with a sick 3 link that flexes like crazy with insane ORI struts.
I'd be pretty pissed too. That's a kick in the balls right there.

 

[Doubeleive]

Damn, that sucks. Talk about a wild ride. Glad you walked away unharmed.
4-Runners are pretty cool, easy to mod and make crazy flex suspensions. There's a Taco with a sick 3 link that flexes like crazy with insane ORI struts.
I'd be pretty pissed too. That's a kick in the balls right there.

ya I really liked that truck it was good to me to the end, lol I should have kept it but lost interest just one of those things I had a ******* to restore a 79 trans am at the time did a bunch of work to that and still didn't like how it handled sold it and moved on to the next thing.

 

[992dr]

ya I really liked that truck it was good to me to the end, lol I should have kept it but lost interest just one of those things I had a ******* to restore a 79 trans am at the time did a bunch of work to that and still didn't like how it handled sold it and moved on to the next thing.

You wanted to restore the 4-Runner after the wreck?
79 Trans Am, nice.
I'm looking at a Fox Body Coupe this week, always wanted one and thought it might be time to add another vehicle to the fleet. It as well as the Tahoe will end up going through a thorough build once my garage is completed.

 

[Tonyrodz]

You wanted to restore the 4-Runner after the wreck?
79 Trans Am, nice.
I'm looking at a Fox Body Coupe this week, always wanted one and thought it might be time to add another vehicle to the fleet. It as well as the Tahoe will end up going through a thorough build once my garage is completed.

I'm not a Ford guy, but I've always liked the Mustang sedans/coupes. Was a real pocket rocket back in the day.

 

[992dr]

I'm not a Ford guy, but I've always liked the Mustang sedans/coupes. Was a real pocket rocket back in the day.

I'm with you. Probably the only Ford I'd own. And honestly, the only reason to get it is it will be a donor vehicle for a waaaaaay in the future FFR Mark IV Roadster base kit build. It'll be a fun semi daily until then.

 

[Doubeleive]

You wanted to restore the 4-Runner after the wreck?
79 Trans Am, nice.
I'm looking at a Fox Body Coupe this week, always wanted one and thought it might be time to add another vehicle to the fleet. It as well as the Tahoe will end up going through a thorough build once my garage is completed.

well I wanted to chop the top off, it was ****** anyway, lift it, put some roll bars in (in case I rolled it again lol) and maybe tarp it like a jeep, put in a supercharger, all that fun kind of stuff, something to go play in the desert with once in a while, but o'well it was a thought anyway....