kosteniuks17
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- Mazda Protege5 2003
I remember It took me forever to get my header in and scared my hands up pretty bad due to rusted bolts. Anyways was in a parking lot by myself and did the whole thing got everything connected. THen I started it up and absolutely hated the noise it made. I then remembered that I forgot the donut gasket that connects to the midpipe. And I broke one of those bolts too, so it was really loud because it wasn't flush with the midpipe. Next day I went to get two new bolts and couple of washers and the gasket. Installed it the next day in like half the time. But I swear the first time was a complete PITA.
Other than my personal story though, here's some advice I saw on this website. You didn't mention if you had troubles with the egr bung but if you did, what you do is follow that egr line back from the header a little and you'll see that there is a little 10 mm or phillips, idk, screw that holds the egr line to the side of your engine. It was hard to see the bolt at first but its under a few other rubber lines and stuff. Just follow it back a few feet, unscrew that and that way you can shift it a little more to install it. I had no troubles installing an ebay header and egr lined up just right.
-Next thing to do is get a mazdaspeed exhaust, its like $100, and a CAI.
Other than my personal story though, here's some advice I saw on this website. You didn't mention if you had troubles with the egr bung but if you did, what you do is follow that egr line back from the header a little and you'll see that there is a little 10 mm or phillips, idk, screw that holds the egr line to the side of your engine. It was hard to see the bolt at first but its under a few other rubber lines and stuff. Just follow it back a few feet, unscrew that and that way you can shift it a little more to install it. I had no troubles installing an ebay header and egr lined up just right.
-Next thing to do is get a mazdaspeed exhaust, its like $100, and a CAI.