Broken rear exhaust bolts on both sides
 

Is pulling the heads and removing broken studs the best and safest way.

You may be able to rockstar drill them.
If you are good.
My thread is a few posts down.
Thats what I am doing.
My buddy: " If you are going to pull the heads, may as well do a cam. If you are going to do a cam, may as well do an intake. And with all that, a tune. The car heads are lower CR so more Hp."

$4500 later. :-(

There are a lot of threads about broken mani studs on the various forums. The vast majority, basically everyone, does not remove the heads. Would it be easier? Most definitely but also a lot of unnecessary work as well.


Heads, cam, intake, while all that would be fun to do I don't think the benefits in such a vehicle are worth the time and money IMO. You still have a tranny that is in the wrong vehicle I think. Even with more horsepower you're still running through the stock gearing which honestly would play a more vital role in MPG. In my 06 GTO, heads, cam, intake mani-most definitely!


Many people have regeared and been very happy with the results. Although I' think this thread is going off on a tangent lol.

I didn't need to remove the head when i did mine. The bolt broke with the stud sticking out enough for the vise grip to grab on. Installed an ARP 434-1301 stud kit and never had a problem.

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Mine are all broken even with head.

Did you remove the manifolds yet to verify that?

Measured them.

Taking it Midas tomorrow to see if they can get them out if not next step, remove heads.

I would rather take it to a smaller garage that's known to do good work. Removing the heads won't be needed once the manifold is out off and the way.

Seems like your anxious to remove a head? :p

If you are close to the Panhandle of FL, we can pull your heads in a day.
They will be at the machine shop for 2-3 days. Be about $200ish and that's clean, deck, valve job.
Then a day to put back together.