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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reivaxtorres" data-source="post: 192712" data-attributes="member: 8890">yeah, im trying to get my hands on a flexy one, but no one seems to carry it. ive gone to both autozone and kragen and no one has it, so i gotta figure out where to find it. my friend said he knew where to get one, but hes not answering his phone and its pissing me off. basically the angle is a little off but can be slightly bent to work, or so i thought (we bent it too much) and the bracket is way off. if you can, i would suggest to try to take off your current one in one piece and just re-use it. im not sure if i just got the wrong one in the kit or what. with us, when we tried pulling the heads the dipstick tube didnt want to come out and when we tried bolting it back to the head and using the head as leverage, we bent the tube, but that was probably because of the way we were pulling it out. as for the exhaust manifolds, yeah, they come out with the heads, but its a little tricky. you have to take off the midpipe, and when the heads are loose, on the passanger side, 8 of the 10 bolts will come out all the way, 2 of them are blocked by the strut tower. what i did was raise the bolts enough to clear the block and then lift the head and remove it. on the drivers side, there are 4 bolts that are blocked by both the tower and the brake booster, so you will have to do the same on this side, except i needed an extra set of hands to hold the four bolts and someone to lift the head. and no, dont feel like tunning it either, so im just going to run it as-is unless i think i really need the tune. ive been running 91 octane gas for about 2 tanks now tho, which i recomend you do so you dont have dentonation.</blockquote>