Now thats a header...

Yep did that yesterday with a welder friend of mine. I did all the cutting and fitting, he welded. The lower half of the pace setter is just pathetic. Mine was misfitted around the y pipe, it was off by a 1/4 of an inch and they just filled it with weld! Then the Y joins to 2 inch pipes to a single 2inch, then flares it at the end to mate to the stock 2 & 1/4 cat, where the hell is the logic in that??? Also had to pull 2 dents out of the primaries and complete the welds on them on the main flange, they were only tacked in place from the factory :jerkit:

The hardest part was the y pipe. Of the 5 places I checked, one could bring in a double 2 inch to single 2 inch and another could get a double 2 inch to single 2.5, which would have been perfect if it fitted, but I was looking at a week either way to get them in. I ended up buying a chromed muffler tip from a local parts store. The thing actually plugged into the pacesetter downpipe perfectly! I just cut the bottom off and mated a piece of 2.5 pipe to it. All the bends are done with mandrell 2.5 piping cut from a J bend. The whole exhaust will be 2.5 all the way from the Y pipe. I'll finish off the catback today. The header is off to be ceramic coated today as well, hopefully I'll have it all in this weekend.

yeah buddy, and i have more rare parts then that. ive got a set of 16x7 enkei' 92's, a set of 15x7 ARE mesh wheels, black leather interior, a body kit( i think its eribuni or kaminari) had some 15x8 5 stars but gave them to my friend for his 280z. he helped me get the ARE's so it was only fare. um, oh, i got a set of addco sway bars, a few hatch covers, i have a stock distributor cover somewhere in my room, maybe 2 i dont remeber, pretty much everthing needed to turbo a 5m, even have an alltrac air-water intercooler, 5mge with 9kmi, spare 5mge, several alts, starters, distributors, ps pumps, wiring harnesses, ignitors, coils, flywheels, blah, blah, blah. damned storage unit costs me $90 a month to keep it all, but hey, its worth it.
william
(wondering what rare parts ill find stashed in my closet when i can finally get to it again. lol)