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95 thoughts on “Bbk shorty headers! insta-leak! ram 1500 5.7”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Doug Anderson says:

    what a waste of money. i dont think ive ever seen a single legit dyno sheet that showed any gain with shorty headers

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kevin Seligmann says:

    Chrome bailing wire, awesome!

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars HUCKLEBERRY says:

    Putting lipstick on a pig.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars IkeRaiser266 says:

    <3 just my 2 cents here but i seen quite a few car mechanics videos on youtube.. but genuinely just for some reason ray seems just hit the right chord with me…idk why but he just does <3

    also i would like to humble brag (in a extremely nice and fair kind of way) hopefully someday about getting a little shoutout in one of rays videos…you do you <3

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dan Bentch says:

    Welp, this has cured me of thinking about headers on my Mustang… Major PITA, for a little bit of power, propensity to crack and burn through… Thanks for a great video, Ray

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars VidelicetMoi says:

    The best details. Excruciating for you.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Maxx Michael says:

    those were the wrong headers for that truck …. did t need all the curvy action

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Trust Me says:

    Don't you have to reprogram the ECM to account for the change in back pressure?

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gino Bragoli says:

    I enjoyed the video until the end when I saw the piece of flimsy wire barely holding on to the ugly piece of heat resistant stuff wrapped around the header tube, not to mention the awful bolt as a spacer (use a smaller length bolt). Sorry Ray but not this time.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kartsa says:

    Why you don't use antiseize paste for exhaust bolts…?

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars GM_JODY says:

    I have bbk shorties on my 2016 ram. I find that I'm chasing exhaust leaks on it constantly. Putting in remflex header gaskets on my next go around. I'm hopeful that takes care of it.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cody We says:

    Header installation afterwards run her HOT and while still running 1/4 turn each bolt…not too tight or you'll snap one..never worry about bolts loosen up after that .

    And try not to burn yourself, welding gloves for a torch work wonders

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars peter penberthy says:

    "This is Boss" man your showing your age.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jerry Weninger says:

    Your videos would fall flat if you didn't talk to your work and parts and yourself. How you keep your composer is amazing, if it were me the videos would have a warning xxx adult language, turn your sound off.

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Paul Monk says:

    Wouldn't it be easier to use a shorter bolt?

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Average Joe says:

    I'd mark that bottom bolt on the collector. Take it off and cut off 1/4" and then re-install it! Not to mention shutting off the truck so it won't be so HOT while working on it! LOL

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Babalon48 says:

    Priceless – Watching Ray, with 10-times the toolbox storage us mere mortals have, but no pair of duckbills or safetywire pliers (snappy has some), and spending more than 60 seconds twisting wire. If you need to justify the cost, it twists wire real shiny!

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David says:

    The person that owns this truck would have been better off asking to have OEM manifolds installed.

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars livingdeadbtu says:

    Dee bris… like a snippy snip snip

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Paczki789 says:

    I would like to see you do this on a hemi car instead. Correction… I'd like to see the pain of you doing this on a charger/challenger/300. Correction again… I'd like the pain to be expressed via a video of headers being installed on a hemi car.

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Patrick Pigg says:

    Putting headers on a stock exhaust?

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars M Rajinj says:

    I only see one problem on the passenger side. The flip back tube is still going to radiate heat on those cooling lines. Oops, sorry I spoke too soon. Lol Great video!

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars TyphaDog says:

    He called you Ray-cist.

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars EVS2K says:

    I spent a couple of days last week working on a Ford and found myself using an open ended spanner to rotate an obscured bolt 30º at a time (rotating spanner between each 30º). I thought to myself, Ray must know a better way. Apparently not. 😉

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael Smith says:

    I had less trouble installing TSP 1-3/4" long tubes on my '01 C5, crazy.

  26. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Phương Ma says:

    Those rubbers hoses not going to survive more than 2 years , if the owner not seal taped those rubbers , you should wrap the rubber hoses not the pipe header 😂😂😂

  27. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gary Thorley says:

    I really enjoy watching this channel, thanks Ray for all the challenges you capture and edit up so we can all follow along.

    I quite often wonder if any of the owners of the vehicles you work on ever watch your videos? Personally I'd love to watch footage of a great technician working on my vehicle.

    Keep up the excellent work and content Ray, its so appreciated by so many 🤩

  28. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Carsten says:

    So glad you took us along on the test drive.

  29. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars don lum says:

    Header suck go stock

  30. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars William Duhamel says:

    My nephew put a set on his 2012 Camaro and had the same problem.

  31. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Adam Durham says:

    "more goodier" I love it…im a health teacher (at a private school) and I use this phrase all the time my students love it the English teacher hates it because the students are starting to say it now

  32. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert Smith says:

    that dont seem worth the aggravation

  33. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Welch says:

    Dam good job Ray.👍👍

  34. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars sandra folsom says:

    I’ve dealt with headers several times and I’m convinced the manufacturers never try to install them.

  35. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars James Jones says:

    Trim the bolt….duh

  36. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars iRenegade says:

    I'm stunned…no, SHOCKED…that Ray doesn't have a set of safety-wire pliers! They would have come in handy for the exhaust wrapping and made really professional look to the finished product. And, I saw the bolt/collector interference comin' a mile away! Next time, just cut it to the right length, Yo. LMAO
    I want you, Ray, to have a wonderful day……..

  37. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bruiser01 says:

    Just watching him put headers on makes me wonder why???? Anyone would wanna pay Big $$$$ for the headers and the Labor to,put them on a TRUCK??? I can see if it’s a Trophy Truck or some other pure competition type truck but a regular street pickup??? I don’t get it!!🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

  38. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars lightning demolition says:

    „I never had much of a vocabulary. In fact, my friend Bob Schneider would still be alive today if I'd known the difference between "antidote" and "anecdote". He got bitten by a copperhead, and I'm telling him funny stories out of Reader's Digest. His head started to swell, I said "This ain't working."“

  39. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Timothy Peterson says:

    It's always the bottom ones that show leaks

  40. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars The Quick Brown Fox says:

    Ya know, about those wrenches you are promoting… Looking at the great difficulty you, a highly trained professional, are having using them, I am not sure me, a mere mortal armchair YouTube professional, could ever hope to properly use one. Can you recommend something with an easier learning curve, possibly from the playschool collection?

  41. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Timothy Peterson says:

    Unless those gaskets are designed like what they call the Detroit gasket it will leak

  42. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ross Tafarian says:

    I thought it was dee-briss.

  43. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars L T says:

    This looks like no fun…
    Although we're thinking of doing this with our 2017 Ram, since we've had it to the stealership three times within this last year for broken exhaust manifold studs. 😬

  44. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sammy Montego says:

    I'm sorry, why is one pipe on the headers looped exactly??

  45. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sean says:

    I recommend getting pair of Safety Wire Pliers. They lock onto the wire, then spin automatically when you pull on the back of them. Don't know how often you would need them doing automotive work, but you can get a serviceable pair for under thirty bucks. Cheers -Sean H

  46. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hammerjockey Radios says:

    when customers ask me to install headers, I make them sign a waiver that they arent going to call back every 2 weeks that "the repair you just did is leaking again" and if they do that they are paying me my hourly rate to go back in and re torque

  47. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mr. Tall-man says:

    Metal zipties fix everything you mean 😁

  48. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lin P. says:

    What is the value of those after market parts? Engine sound?

  49. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Scott Volage says:

    Back in the day I would install the headers for my buddy's 1969 Ford Cobra with a 428 Cobra Jet engine. It would be an all-day job to get the bolts and or allen head bolts in and tight around the boxed in shock towers and get them tightened up. He often pulled the engine to make changes and would always have me do it because he did not have the patience to do it. I even bought a finishing tap to make sure the threads in the block were clean and could be finger tightened as much as possible. Fun times.

  50. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cara D says:

    With firsthand experience of how electricians trim zip ties, I'm extremely grateful you have flush cutters.

  51. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ian Daniel says:

    Those wrenches don’t ship to Australia

  52. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars M E says:

    Love the videos. My only suggestion is to use header wrap. Always a go to at work. Keep up the great work, looking forward to future videos.

  53. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jhon Ditch says:

    you make things look so simple that anyone could do

  54. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars PeaceMarauder says:

    I think we're all Raycists here 😛 It's a happy header set.

  55. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ian Daniel says:

    I did something like that once. Fighting a bolt that wouldn’t behave, do those tiny turns when tightening up. Turned out I was cross-threading the bolt on the brake caliper. Whoops – lesson learnt.

  56. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mr. DirtySouthDog says:

    Ray listen here son, you sound like a good kid. There's only one God. No such thing as car god's

  57. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jhon Ditch says:

    it is de briss

  58. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stanley Mcfalls The Southern Comedian says:

    I'm late but hell yea 45 minutes of great video

  59. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Terry Robertson says:

    A complete waste of time and money. It is much like putting lipstick on a pig.

  60. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Josh R says:

    Installed a set of headman headers on my cousins 2004 ram 4.7 1500 and had an instant leak too.. for me the passenger header front tube they completely forgot to finish the weld from the mating face and tube 🤦🏻‍♂️ good think i know how to run a good bead

  61. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lin P. says:

    is that Evanescence in the background?

  62. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lyle Popson says:

    I have done so many engine swaps and rebuilds?
    Laying on a sheet of ice stabbing a transmission in held up by a 2×4 sitting on paint cans…
    Can’t believe I enjoy watching your videos?
    Very entertaining, thank you.

  63. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rob Steingruber says:

    Watching you fight the wire, I'm thinking why don't you use lacing wire pliers?

  64. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars K H says:

    Shameless Promotion deserved and accepted this time….

  65. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars James Pinckard says:

    My patience box isn't near as big as his. Not me!

  66. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars SomeGuyInSandy says:

    Stainless steel zip ties are a thing!

  67. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Carl Ramseur says:

    This Guy is AMAZING

  68. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars L. Savman says:

    Ray, You know they make stainless steel zip ties.

  69. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael Taylor says:

    My wife was in the room when you talked about the two finger treatment. She just looked at me and we both burst into laughter. Thanks Ray! Love your commentary, especialy when it gets a little off topic. 🙂

  70. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tom Kennedy says:

    MAybe also shorten the heater hose above the bend, to lift it up?

  71. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike Willy says:

    I call debris Deborahs and it drives some people fuckin crazy 🤣

  72. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Norman Garrand says:

    I still for the life of me don't understand why people waste there money on these exhaust !

  73. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars R Fortier says:

    They should have wrapped them before they gave them to you

  74. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Capn Pugwash says:

    So now we have to call Ray Ray the patience of a Saint and, Ray the unstressable. Now I know you haven't got a Dynamometer strapped to your right leg, but apart from not making blowing noises did you think the sculptured headers did more than make it sound nice?

  75. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike says:

    Everytime I've had to pull a motor, I've always decided this is the best time to put headers on.

  76. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Charles Porch says:

    Thanks for the video Ray. Keep the good content coming

  77. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars R Fortier says:

    Looks like a engine out app to me

  78. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gary McPhee says:

    Would hose clamps on the header insulation be better instead of wire? Love your videos.

  79. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars STEVE-O says:

    HEY RAY WHAT STATE DO YOU LIVE AND WORK OUT OF JUST CURIOUS. I WOULDN'T MIND IF YOU WORKED ON MY VEHICLES BECAUSE YOU SEEM TO KNOW YOUR WAY AROUND MANY TYPES OF VEHICLES AND YOU DONT GET CUSSING MAD WHEN SOMETHING DOESN'T GO RIGHT.

  80. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tracy McDougal says:

    Tight ass job

  81. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars William Young says:

    It’s ok for the two part I understand thing happened when you work on cars

  82. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars WyzMan1ncSaid says:

    what do those headers do? increase performance? HP? torque?

  83. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jeff Holden says:

    I would have preferred shortening the collector flange bolt versus an oversized nut for a spacer. In the end, the bolt did not take advantage of full use of available threads. This is especially important for aluminum. Use of a couple of ss band clamps to secure the exhaust wrap would have presented a more professional finish. Otherwise, a very good upgrade.

  84. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dinggo xD says:

    you cant do that!

  85. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars FaZe Yoda says:

    YOURE HAVING AS MANY PROBLEMS AS BIDEN IS TRYING TO RE ELECT LOL

  86. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jeff Wright says:

    I installed a set of those headers a few months ago. Lucky for me I had the heads off to remove the MDS system, replace cam, lifters and install am edelbrock supercharger.

  87. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Landon Gere says:

    Kind of brings me back to the first time I replaced broken exhaust manifolds/ cat converters with siezed and broken studs in the heads of an early ford escape 3.0l.
    Ahh.. the memories!

  88. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars D Svenn, DDS says:

    Dumb question: You talk about witness marks often. Why don't fasteners come from the factory with marks?

  89. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Frank_Frankerson says:

    You guys listen to a lot of evanescence down there.

  90. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Falco says:

    I think I would have just cut 1/4” off that bolt in the beginning and be done with it. In reality I know the struggle is real and the brain develops a fog under such circumstances.

  91. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Roger Fleury says:

    638th! GOOD EVENING RAY! BOY HOWDY! YIPPEE! Roger in Pierre South Dakota

  92. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars dustcommander100 says:

    I thought it was a law that you had to beat flat spots in at least 2 tubes to clear stuff, and cut the exhaust pipes in order to match the collector outlet angle. Hard to believe the manufacturer had the outlet angles correct. I believe that was about as bad as some timing chain jobs!

  93. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Graeme Scott says:

    Should of wiped down the headers before starting the engine, because now the finger marks are burned into the headers

  94. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David Kacs says:

    You offended me with your shameless plug, I'm a blue haired gay lesbian trans who identifies as a blue haired person she he gay lesbian pronoun inducing blob of goo they them and you should pay me because I'm offended with what you said in that video I was watching? Anyway, you understand. People need… Cosmos…. Understanding… Uhhh… Stuff…

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