Okay, here is the update as of 1:53 AM. Just got home a few hours ago and was thinking just go jack that bitch up and peek at it. I jacked it up, looking for any visible problem and I did notice something right away with the car off and me squeeing under it on 4 jack stands. Apparently, unless passanger side factory headers are dented in, #10 header cylinder got dented bad when the trans was out, and #8 has a slight dent. Apparently, my friend who owns the shop did not support the motor fully and the #10 header pipe got whacked in against the frame. I'm not sure if that is leaking there (although there is a noticable exhaust leak now) as I was alone, but anyhow it sure as shit looks obstructed and I don't mean a ding restricting 10% of air flow, I mean like 50%+ restricted on #10 cyl and 10-20% on #8 cyl. So that might explain the slight miss and running not 100%, and the insulation on the factory headers that is on there looks almost pinned against the frame side. I have my new TNT's to install and was going to put on a full exhaust, but I want to probe further. I did pull #8 and #10 spark plugs to compare and they looked identical, but didn't puill the rest, but I know they are not running right albeit no codes thrown. Note, I did not drive this long at all like this, less than 50 miles for sure. This car shakes at idle, this much I know, and although that headers pipe can explain a lot, I think there is something else wrong. I can even feel it when the starter engages the engine, so I am leaning towards the mounts, and I notced one mount is slighly higher than the other mount on that groove so I will loosen and try to pry bar it down.
So here are my questions:
Can I pull 2000 GTS factory headers from the top okay and leave the hood on? Looks like I can, and if so, I will just hang my complete exhaust myself here after I get two bungs welded on. Passanger side looks like it will be a royal bitch unfortunately....
Should I replace entire exhaust, adjsut motor mount down on the one side to be at same height as other mount (up 1/4") and go from there? I mean even if something was drastically wrong, the exhaust would go in and all I would do is have to pull motor as if the heads come off, the bottom is getting redone too.
Side sills I see the bottom screws, but is that a 10 minute job as it looks, or is that hard to come off? Any hints?
No Viper for a few weeks as I will do my MSD fuel booster now and some other stuff since I have it all jacked up. I want a lift, but it is what it is-lol.
if there are typos and such, I am tired as hell and just ungreased myself. thansk for all the advice, but this is ghetto garage here on my back, but anyhow just redid my garage last year with mounted drop lights, epoxy painted floors, workbench with grinders, vise and such so it makes stuff easier even though I don't have a lift like the rich guys
Off to sleep and planning on ordering the Random tech exhaust instead of my Borla-any ideas on best price? Called Jon B and got a price, but I have to say that I would like an alternative for ordering
Gary