I have a 97 ex coupe with a jdm type r motor. I bought a header from ssautochrome recently which is stainless steel. I need some help on some ideas on how to install it. I have tanabe racing medalion exhaust, and I'm assuming a usa cat. The stock manifold that is on the car right now has about a 4 inch piece welded before the flange on the header. How should I install this header. It has a 2.5" collector, and will have a gap and I will not be able to directly bolt it on. It did however come with a 4" piece of flex to weld in. The problem is that nobody has a tig welder here, and if I put the piece of flex in it is too long i.e. I will have to get rid of my cat and put a piece of straight pipe in addition to the flex piece In place of my cat. Any ideas. Can I just weld it with a mig?

 

header is just like this one
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...=WDVW

 

id rather have a jdm type r header than a ssauto one...

 

to the worthless comment. ok for the question. Go to a local muffler shop and have them make a test pipe from your header to your exhaust with the flex in it. or you can get yourself a roll of stainless wire and a bottle or tri mix gas and you can weld the stainless to mildsteel with your mig welder

 

A guy at a local shop offered to weld the stainless with a mig welder. He said it would hold fine, just that the weld may rust over time and not look as pretty as a tig weld. He has the gas for the mig. So will mig welding on a stainless part hold or should I try to get someone to tig it for me?

 

if he use proper wire that should be use on SS, it will not rust. Either way, it will hold up just find if he knows how to weld. You can even do it yourself if you really try.