[chazmuska]

So I purchased a used Borla UEL header from a private party. I should have taken better precautions so that's why I'm posting this to save someone else the ordeal! Basically, I put the header on and thought it sounded fantastic, that is UNTIL I started noticing some loud valve ticking sound coming from my engine every time I accelerated off the line (just normal driving). I was like, wtf, my engine is already going bad with under 50K? I heard about the rocker valve recall and thought I was experience the same issue. So after taking a look under my car I thought it was just a bad gasket initially, changed those out but it still was making that awful ticking sound! Well, as it turned out, the header cracked where the pipe meets the flange! ...and it also looks liked the previous owner tried to file it down further because you can see the grove marks in the pic (as well as the crack).

Do you guys think a welder can fix this or is this header just scrap metal now? Anyone else experience similar issues? I have the stock header on now and the "valve ticking" problem I thought I had is gone...thank god! But now I have to decide what do do with this Borla header!?