About 6 weeks ago, I had enough of the constant leak between Borla header to cat joints. After about 2 years of tightening the bolts every 2-3 weeks, it seems like the leak is louder than ever and never goes away anymore no matter how tight I get the bolts. The leak is terrible at highway speed.
I removed everything, replaced the gasket (it was blown out) with a Fel-Pro gasket. It improved things but their is still a large leak between the rear collector connection. You can feel the air coming out on your hand. After taking the pipe off about four times and adjusting it countless times without improvement I took it into a local shop. They said that I had enlarged the sockets on my cats / Y pipe from over tightening it and/or it constantly coming loose and moving around.
Just got done installing my new OEM y-pipe and what do you know, the rear collector connection still leaks like a SOB! I'm stumped at this point. Please help me with a few questions.
1) Is it possible that the ball joint on my Borla is worn down enough to no longer provide a tight seal?
2) Is it possible to over tighten the 4 collector bolts?
3) Should I just buy new header? (Looking at JBA or Edelbrock)
Like I said, I'm stumped and frustrated and hate to think about taking it to a stealership. I can see it now, "sir, the problem is your aftermarket exhaust, we need to replace it with new OEM manifolds which are $562 each plus about 10 hours labor so plan on about $2k."
I removed everything, replaced the gasket (it was blown out) with a Fel-Pro gasket. It improved things but their is still a large leak between the rear collector connection. You can feel the air coming out on your hand. After taking the pipe off about four times and adjusting it countless times without improvement I took it into a local shop. They said that I had enlarged the sockets on my cats / Y pipe from over tightening it and/or it constantly coming loose and moving around.
Just got done installing my new OEM y-pipe and what do you know, the rear collector connection still leaks like a SOB! I'm stumped at this point. Please help me with a few questions.
1) Is it possible that the ball joint on my Borla is worn down enough to no longer provide a tight seal?
2) Is it possible to over tighten the 4 collector bolts?
3) Should I just buy new header? (Looking at JBA or Edelbrock)
Like I said, I'm stumped and frustrated and hate to think about taking it to a stealership. I can see it now, "sir, the problem is your aftermarket exhaust, we need to replace it with new OEM manifolds which are $562 each plus about 10 hours labor so plan on about $2k."