Well as some of you may know I recently got my Megan Racing header and was gonna install it but ran across a problem. When i was trying to take off the heat shield on my stock header the 3rd bolt (bottom of the heat shield) seems to be stripped and i tried using a combination wrench and socket wrench but it didn't work. Each time i tried to losen the bolt it would just strip it a lil more and not turn the bolt at all so i stopped. My question is what can i do to get the bolt off so i can finally install the damn thing. And yes I did use more than enough PB. I swear the easiest mods or installation always ends turning into something extra.

 

If you can get a dremel to it, grind the bolt head until you get two nice flat sides, until a wrench work on it again.

 

well if its striped already and your not gonna reuse the part.... just use a dremel or grinder or what not and grind the head off..... or drill the bolt out depends how much room ya got to work with....

i know on my old header i couldnt get the last shield bolt out from it being striped so i just yanked that sucker backwards enough so i could get to the head bolts to remove the whole thing as one piece.
it worked

 

Also is the heat shield bolted on the car itself or on the header. Cuz if i can take the header and heat shield off in one piece than it would save me the extra time.