TTI guys

Thats the way I put mine on. When you get ready to put the back tube on clean it real well with 0000 steel wool and lube it up wth WD40 or something slick, it makes them go together alot easier. And yeah, you never want to break a new engine in with new headers, I just sent a $600.00 set of coated Hookers back for a customer to be recoated because he didn't read the instructions. Now they look like crap because they didn't strip what was left of the old coating off before they re coated them.