Help!

[Hulud]

i just installed a pacesetter header w/ my bro and when i started up my car its smoking a lil outta the header..
is this normal?

[dereksi]

yea

[Hulud]

how long will it smoke for?

[ash7]

until i burns off all the oil that your hands got on it... prolly an hour or two.

[B16a2 Civic]

ay Hatch, your in Columbus right....never seen ya around...i commented on ya welcome thread

[99SI]

As long as the smoke is not coming out from around the flange and then you have a gasket issue. If you reused your old manifold gasket you may need to get a new one. Also if you didn't torque the bolts correctly or in an alternating pattern you may have torqued down one side before the other and it's not making a complete seal. But, if the smoke is just coming off of the actual tubing it's just shit you got on it during the install.

[BTEC]

stuff from ur hands possibly or the spray paint burning off. i put one of those on an accord, it was black for like 20 minutes.

[Bishop]

Well the shit is fucking Bullshit. Apparently they dont use hi-temp paint when the paint it so all the black paint is fucked up. Now i gotta paint it for him. Thats what the problem was.

[Hulud]

^true

[ash7]

ay Hatch, your in Columbus right....never seen ya around...i commented on ya welcome threadthanks:) My car has been cooped up in the garage pending the insurance company totalling it. So i might be working on another hatchback here pretty soon.

[speedminded]

Well the shit is fucking Bullshit. Apparently they dont use hi-temp paint when the paint it so all the black paint is fucked up. Now i gotta paint it for him. Thats what the problem was....you won't ever get any paint to stick on it [not even the 1200-1400° ceramic paint], just clean it really well and put a header wrap on it and call it a day.