Just finished a valve check/adjust. Put Delk headers on while it was in it's exploded state. Did the coolant, plugs, brake and clutch fluids too. 2 weeks start to finish with ordering parts, used Murphs for the gaskets, summit for the shims. Worked on it sunday's primarily, putting an hour or two in a couple times during the week after work. Probably 25-30 hours total on the project, just taking my time.
Job is done, have ridden 10 minutes with the headers on, not sure I'm happy. Been running Steve's full system flash for almost a year, but didn't swap the stock headers for the Delk until the valve check/adjust I just performed. Just been running the slip on. Nice noticable gains down low, a little more peppy throughout the rev range with the stock exhaust and with slip on.
Admittedly, I haven't really put but 7 miles on it but it feels unflashed now at the low end of the rev range. I packed the reducer into the pipe per Shoudabeen instructions. It just doesn't seem to have recovered the 18 or so ft/lbs around 3500+.
I may wind up putting the stock tubes back on before heading back to the Sierra Nevadas because the low end response and pull from those little tubes was quite nice. I may not even be able to tell it's got 5-10 more HP when I'm screaming it, so I feel like it may not be worth the trade off. I'll see how I feel after putting a few more miles on.
Update.. rode it a bit more and it does seem to have retained the lower end grunt. Nice work, big thank you to Shoudabeen Steve!!
