I'm driving the falcon around and my headers hit on almost everything (like it hits on the middle of neighborhood streets because the sides are worn out by cars driving on them and it kinda peaks in the middle). Anyways, some people have me worried about if the headers hit the road hard enough that it could damage the cylinder heads. I guess they're saying that there's not enough give and since they're bolted to the cylinder heads...you know what I'm saying. Well what do you guys think? My muffler used to hit on my mercedes all the time but I never worried because it was located further away from the engine and always thought that the worst that would happen is the muffler itself would just get torn off. Also I have thought about switching from the longtubes back to the stock exhaust but that would make it slower/lose performance, and raising it is not an option. So I was planning on cutting/rewelding the headers so they sit higher off the ground. Do any of you guys have any experience? Do you think I should just let them drag? You don't think if they hit the ground hard enough they would move vertically enough to rip the cylinder heads? Or do you think they would just bend up/break or maybe even do damage to engine mounts before they did damage to the cylinder heads? Shocks are bottomed out in the front as well. Not sure if that makes a difference.
Here's a pic for reference about how low the headers are. It's not an exaggeration, that's in my garage on smooth/level ground. The headers are pretty much the only thing that I"m worried about hitting because other than them it's just frame that's that low and I don't really care if the frame hits.
What do you guys think?
Here's a pic for reference about how low the headers are. It's not an exaggeration, that's in my garage on smooth/level ground. The headers are pretty much the only thing that I"m worried about hitting because other than them it's just frame that's that low and I don't really care if the frame hits.
What do you guys think?
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