Exhaust manifold gaskets / Ford 460

Wavery wrote:

royl wrote:

I did the install with a little help from the wife. Pretty straight forward with the Banks kit, the fit and finish was perfect. It came with all the hangers,heat shields,bolts and all. That is the only way I would do it. They have did all the testing and fit testing for you so it is quick and easy. I spent most of a day with the install, I had it all removed while waiting on the system to arrive. The system including the intake mod kit and the transmission control module made the motorhome wake up and run like it should. I am pulling hills now fully loaded and towing the toad at 55 to 60 mph where I was dropping down to 40 or less before, much less downshifting and runs much cooler.

I'm assuming that you did not coat or wrap your headers..... Are you having any heat issues inside the coach? How about plug wires?

No I didn't have a need to coat or wrap the headers. The headers made my floor and dog box cooler. No problem with the plug wires, Banks said to throw away the heat shields from around the plug wires as they were no longer needed. They did however supply a heat shield that wraps around the starter. I have a large loom of battery cables that run up the frame on the passenger side that I wrapped with heat shield from Autozone just in case because they were within inches of the header.