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Old 07-11-2006, 07:24 PM
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Hi CWizard,

Sorry but I need to disagree about the stainless hardware. Every time I've used those, they break off. And if they don't break, they seize so you can't get 'em off without twisting them off.

There are regular steel bolts made for collectors' exhaust temps and acidity that are reusable, and re-tightenable (is that a word?). I use those.

I prefer the Stage 8 header locks, too, while I'm recalling hardware specifics. I tried the Breslins, but they tried to ruin my aluminum heads' threads, and a couple of their allen screws which were supposed to lock them on, fell out!

Either bolt style is hard to install unless you are plastic man, but the Stage 8s seem to hold fine for me.

Tom
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