Fitting headers

[Viper Craig]

Hi guys. I've just put together my SVS Headers and noticed that on three of the pipes and on three of the receiving pipes there are small brackets. Anybody have any idea what these are for? I presume they are either for bolts, springs or for hangers when fitting. Any help would be great.

Thanks everybody.

Craig

[V1PER]

Never seen a set of SVS headers... Got any pics???

[Viper Craig]

There you go, hope this helps.

Thanks

[neilsfishing]

ooooooooooh thay look good enough to eat mine might want them

[Viper]

it looks like they come apart where the brackets are so you can fit them, and you just bolt them up afterwards

[Viper Craig]

Yeah they came as the collector and then all the pipes so you have to slot them together yourself (Done for easy shipping I guess). I just wondered what the little brackets were for seeing as they are only on three of the five pipes. Cheers for that.

Edited by Viper Craig on Friday 11th January 23:14

[bigviper]

did you get any springs in the set as alot of bike pipes use that to hold them togther

[V1PER]

Are the brackets on the singles and a set of three tubes???
Was there any bolts or springs with the kit????

EDIT
Dam Fishboy

Edited by V1PER on Friday 11th January 23:22

[Viper Craig]

No, i just got the 10 pipes and 2 collectors that was it. Every picture i've seen of the headers too, the brackets have had nothing in them, thats why I thought it might be something to do with the fitting, like hangers or something?

[bigviper]

the only thing that goes in there is either springs or nuts and bolts
i would check with them who made them,eather was thay are dam nice!!!!!!!!

[Viper Craig]

Well I spoke to a couple of people and they seem to think its nuts and bolts that go there so think thats the route i'll go down. Set of stainless bolts would go nice on them I think. Also i've been told i'll see anything from 30 - 40bhp increase from them on my '97 GTS. Not bad for a total cost of £700 including shipping from the States.

[Viper Wizard]

Hi Craig,

Yes your right, bolt go in those brackets. One tip from me, install your stock heat shields on your new headers!! To mount them on headers, you can use the three studs that were on your stock manifolds in the same place on your headers. Then put a few washers on the studs to space the H/shields off the headers then put the nuts on to hold them. Hope this helps?

I have seen Vipers burn up that did not have heat shields on them!

[neilsfishing]

Spoke to exhaust bod at Autosport show he recomends exhaust springs to alow expantion when heating up

[Viper Craig]

Hi Chuck,

Yeah that helps a lot cheers. I have heat wrap for them anyway and heat paint so shouldn't be too bad, but will put the old heat shield back on anyway for extra protection. Thanks for doing a bit of digging Neil, not sure what to go with now, have a speak to a few more people and see what they suggest.

Thanks all!

[N GTS]

Craig, I used some special copper based exhaust nuts when I used bolts on a similar set up (on Cobra), normal nuts will undo themselves as the bolts heats and stretches, you can double nut, but the copper exhaust nuts are the way to go, cap head bolts. Springs were not enough, I've used springs on lighter motorbike systems which worked for bike collectors. The GTS-R exhausts are the same type of design. Headers are nice, I'd put a little heatshield on your aircon intake box inself too, if I remember right with those headers it runs very close there.