Hi Casey, I recently had to replace the manifold gaskets on my car. I was lucky enough to have a traveling welder come to my house to weld my small hole on my pipe, and let me use his torch to remove the manifold nuts. I had to replace 2 studs (7mm i believe, hard to come by localy). I glass beaded my manifolds, used some good high temp paint and all new gaskets all round. My studs seemed to be in good condition, i wasn't in the mood to try and take them out if i didn't have to. So i ran a chaser over them, and used some new nuts on it. From what i have been told doing all of this makes the car sound better, i never heard mine run before this so i don't really know about that. All I can say is that people are going to charge a good (large) amount and it's going to be well worth it. It was the biggest pain in the ass (sorry guys, it really was). The location alone and doing it in my garage didn't help. From what i heard a while back PJ Grady charges $800 (just what i heard, ! should call for an estimate). The $800 seems well worth it as well. You don't want to mess around with breaking bolts in alumnium heads. - Shain #10140 ----- In Response To ----- I am about as sure as I can be I have an exhaust leak in the area of the right manifold or crossover pipe. However, I have no idea where it is coming from, I can't find any black exhaust deposites or see or feel anywhere that air is excaping form the system. I even put my hands over the pipes a little to increase back pressure to see if the tick would get louder and I do not notice it change at all.? With a mechanics stethescope I hear the ticking noise most prevelent on the crossover pipe next to the right manifold. Does the crossover pipe ever crack and leak. Also, I am probally going to have to pay someone to take the manifolds off and replace the gaskets etc, do any of you know about how much I'd get charged for such a job? Also, those studs and nuts have been on there for 20 years, I can't beleive they would come off with out breaking. Anyway, I'd just like it if anyone out there had some advice for me in this area. Sincerely, Casey at chaparral2a002@xxxx _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderator@xxxx To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ----------------------------------- WSMMail Brought to you by Adgrafix! http://www.adgrafix.com