Santos Moreno
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- Jan 20, 2012
I took out the exhaust manifolds to weld what I believe was a hair line crack...to my surprise the drivers side one was in pretty bad shape (the one pipe closest to the firewall was almost completely cracked all the way around). After welding a strip of 1/16 steel around it and filling all the cracks I discovered that there were no EXHAUST MANIFOLD GASKETS. The previous owner told me the motor was completely stock with the usual upgrades (gas pump, maf, map and so forth) THE questions that I have is this normal? or somebody forgot to install the exhaust manifold gaskets? I am installing bigger downpipe, hooker exhaust system, injectors, turbo, gas regulator, chip, and I dont want to go back to install, or take out the EM GASKETS