Ok I’m still going through it with these afe shorty headers leaking at the collector ball socket connection.
I had bolts initially rattling loose but have since change to 10.9 bolts and that doesn’t seem to be a concern.
However now they’re just not sealing at all.
I’ve bout probably 5 sets of different donut graphite gaskets trying to get something to work. Everything is too thick since it’s not designed to have one there.
I saw on some forums people mentioned copper as a gasket material.
Think some sheets like this would work? Cut a strip same width as the collector ball and bend it around into a gasket.
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I don’t want to use cement since it’s semi-perminanet and would have to be ground off the headers.
Also don’t want to buy new mid pipes since they’re like $700+ catted.
Any other thoughts?