Originally Posted by AMGrasoul
Even with a blank check and the car, working on it full time will take more than a week... The steering column on the drivers side gets in the way and makes you do some crazy turns IF long tube headers is what you want to stick with. Another consideration is you'll have to rework your exhaust too, because you'll be cutting off the upper cat to get the collector under the car. The problem we ran into with this was the only exit for the collector on the drivers side wouldn't line up with the factory exhaust, so it's a little more involved than just welding on a reducer and a flange (reducer if you wanted to keep the 2.25" exhaust, I redid mine to 3" and a 3" collector).
I agree - I looked at my SRT and even cut some cardboard mockups and there is just no way headers can fit without major mods or hanging pipes under the frame. Absolutely no room for (true) shorties above the frame.
My SRT is already so low that I would destroy an expensive set of headers on the first dip I hit at 25MPH. Not interested in scraping my headers.
Intake - Pulley - Tune & IC Cooling are the proven performance mods or else, in my opinion, marketable headers would already have been developed for the SLK320/32.
So lets go LET and get them pulleys fabbed and into our hands...