[RedBarchetta]

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Last night I pulled the pipes. Dang, these things came out waaaay too easy! Anyway, I just dropped them off at American Roadster in Placentia. Alex is going to tack weld them up possibly TODAY. If all goes well with that, then I'll drag them home over the rainy (!!!) weekend and make sure the fit is correct (the side bracket fitment is especially critical and has to be exact). Assuming everything lines up nicely, I will drag them back to Alex for final tig/finish welding. Then it's off to have them re-Jet Hot coated.

Curious, has anyone come up with a better fastener system for the collector gaskets? The 8 bolts and nuts only have a lock washer to keep them secure. I'd like to explore other ideas so that there are 16 fewer bolts to keep checking for tightness. Thanks for the inputs!

-Dean