ya i have a 2001 chevy silverado v8 5.3, i just bought some edelbrok shorties and i wanted to know if you all had any suggestions for installing em? cuz the local shops want to charge me 200 bucks to install em and **** that, thats too damn much, and i was looking at em and it just looks like a bolt on so it doesnt look hard, just put on the gaskets and bolt em on, anything that i should look out for or anything im over looking or something i definately should NOT do, just let me know, thx

 

Shorties are a piece of cake. Unbolt the exhaust manifolds and bolt up the headers. Should take 2-3 hours.

 

screw the shorties!! get some long tubes!

 

Have fun with those flanges man. Get some liquid wrench and eat your weaties. I couldnt get mine off so i cut them off. Steroids might be another alternative.

 

i got the damn flanges off took for ******* ever but i did it and my arms were sore as ****

 

i told you they sucked. i put a wrench on them, couldnt move it even with a cheater bar....said ***** this and got the old sawzall and took care of the problem. way to go.

 

we install longtubes in a camaro Z28 and broke 5 of the 6 bolts off the stock manifolds and stripped the 6th so we had to unbolt them and lower them to where we could cut the pipe high enough to be able to ease the manifolds out. it was hella fun but the whole process took 14 hours and the y-pipe didnt fit afterwards
yeah it looks easy but be prepared for a bunch of little problems that will make it take a lot longer. we spend an hour and a half just trying to get the last bolt on one of the manifolds off.

 

and yeah screw shorties get longtubes