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Paul Workman · 03-06-2011

Honest ta God...If I moved from IL and had to reinstall mine for some reason, I'd think hard about selling 'er first! Well, mebby not, but DAYAM, John! I'd rather take a whoopin' than put the 90s WITH cats installed back on!

I see you have a 91 and live in ID, so this may not apply, but I seem to recall that in Kalifornia you can get a waiver for headers and aftermarket cats because the 90's headers are welded to the cats, and as such are no longer available from the manufacture. That fact might have some bearing on ID b/c several localities follow suit "whatever California requires is what we require" kind of mentality. (Dave McLellan alluded to this last year at BG while discussing the so called "Valet key" and it's real purpose - having nothing to do with valets, BTW.)

So, is this a periodic requirement to have the car inspected? And, too, I wonder if it would be easier to pull the engine, install the beotches and then drop the engine back in? (Pulling the engine would take me less time and be a whole lot easier than it was for me to remove those friggin things in the first place!)

P.

03-06-2011	#12
Paul Workman Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Squires (near Ava MO in the Mark Twain N'tl Forest) - Missouri Posts: 6,466	Re: Stock Exhaust Header Re-Install Honest ta God...If I moved from IL and had to reinstall mine for some reason, I'd think hard about selling 'er first! Well, mebby not, but DAYAM, John! I'd rather take a whoopin' than put the 90s WITH cats installed back on! I see you have a 91 and live in ID, so this may not apply, but I seem to recall that in Kalifornia you can get a waiver for headers and aftermarket cats because the 90's headers are welded to the cats, and as such are no longer available from the manufacture. That fact might have some bearing on ID b/c several localities follow suit "whatever California requires is what we require" kind of mentality. (Dave McLellan alluded to this last year at BG while discussing the so called "Valet key" and it's real purpose - having nothing to do with valets, BTW.) So, is this a periodic requirement to have the car inspected? And, too, I wonder if it would be easier to pull the engine, install the beotches and then drop the engine back in? (Pulling the engine would take me less time and be a whole lot easier than it was for me to remove those friggin things in the first place!) P.