Hey guys, I thought I should warn everyone out there to take anything LC Engineering says with a grain of salt. I ordered a header from them on May 27th, and was promised it would be on my doorstep in 4-5 days. My truck is down because of a cracked manifold, and I don't want to risk driving it since I'm afraid I'll burn an exhaust valve. Anyway, they called and left a message on May 28th, 'Hey, we know we promised you 4-5 days, but we won't be able to ship it to you until April 8th.' So I called and spoke with a supervisor, who said they didn't have any connector pipes in, they were all out being ceramic coated and wouldn't be back until the 7th of April. So I said I would wait, but I asked if they could ship the connector pipe to me next day air when it arrived so I could install it the weekend of the 9th. He said he would ship it next day, but I had to split the cost with him!?!?! I told him that wasn't good service, since I could get a Thorley from Summit within the week, and would have ordered a Thorley if I'd been told I was going to have to wait two weeks for the LC. I was promised 4-5 day delivery, and under the circumstances I think I was being very reasonable in wanting them to pay for the air shipment to get it to me by the 9th of April (still a two week wait). I even offered to accept a non-coated connector pipe if it would speed up delivery. After a lot of talking and my threat to cancel the order he finally told me that he would have the parts to me on or before the 9th of April if I was willing to wait that long.

Well, it's April 9th. No header, no connector pipe. I called them today and they said they shipped the header and connector on April 7th, and shipped it UPS GROUND!

I am so frustrated right now that I don't know what to do. I want to refuse the shipment because of this terrible service, but I also want to drive my truck again. I'm tempted to just order a Thorley and live with the extra few days it will take for a Thorley to get to me, but I'm not sure the Thorley will fit my truck. I've got a 1989 4Runner, 22RE, and Thorley says they don't make a header for it. They do make one for a 1989 pickup in 4x2, but not one in 4x4. Anyone know what the difference might be?

I know the quickest way to get my truck on the road is just to wait on UPS to deliver the LC Engineering header, but I hate walking into a project already ticked off. If I have any trouble with it, or it doesn't help the truck's performance, I'll be really, really upset with myself for keeping it.

Anyway, thanks for letting me rant. The bottom line is don't trust any date that LC Engineering gives you.