TTI headers ready to go in....any advice?

I put them on my Duster 340 a few months ago. It was a fairly easy one-man job as I recall, but you do have to get the car quite a ways off the ground. My motor and tranny were in, but jacked up as high as it could go off the motor mounts.

Warning: If you have the right angle oil filter adapter, leave it off during installation, BUT... before you tighten down the headers and bolt down the motor, MAKE SURE that the big bolt that holds the adapter to the block is TIGHT and sealed well. Once the motor is in place and the headers tightened down, there IS NO WAY IN HEAVEN you can tighten that bold down. Ask me... I know.

What kind of trans linkage you have? I have a floor console auto and had to flip over one piece to keep it from scratching the collector and jamming the shifter.

Be careful. Go softly. Those headers are works of art.

Is this a new rebuild? If so, you should know that TTI does not recommend using them ... in fact you'll lose the warranty if you do. On a rebuild, the headers can become red hot so that the coating peels off. I learned of this too late, but I compensated by having a big fan blowing air over the headers during break in, and even misted them with a garden hose while the motor ran.

You'll also find that the headers hang on the bolts rather sloppily. That bothered me a lot because I had exhaust port-matched the heads to the header gasket and I could see that there was intrusion of the header in the exhaust gas flow that would cause turbulence. I contacted TTI and they admitted the sloppy fit but had to manufacture the headers for a number of vehicles. They recommended I use 4 bronze bushings to fill the gaps, which I got and used. Also, my TTI's came with a gasket with bolt holes WAY oversized. They sent me another set with the smaller diameter holes.