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Ok sucky day. Miss passing my Microsoft XP cert by 13 points. But now for the real problem. I got my random tech high flow cat. I was putting some new bolts in for the top (Thanks djmota). Was working like a charm got both bolts started. Then started to tighten down the bolts. One of the bolts snapps off in the hole. I was like ok. Everything will be fine. I will take the header off and use a tap to drill out the part that is stuck. I start loosening the bolts from the header. I get to the last nut (the one of the driver's side that is a pain to get to) and it wont budge. So I grab my little ball pin hammer and start tapping on the wrench. Tapping turns in to some force and just when I think it is about to break lose the whole thing gives and strips the nut. So now my cat cannot hook up to my header cause there is part of a bolt stuck in the hole and I cannot get the header off because of one nut. Any ideas? Please guys help me out. I guess I was just not ment to do anything important today.

 
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I found these doing quick search of the net. Anybody tried using these?
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...id=00952162000

 
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The Honda manual actually reccomends that you replace these bolts. I found out the hard way too! I had a friend of mine who was skilled with a tap and die to get the broken bolt out. We had to switch the threads to standard instead of metric because the tap and die was for use on his Jeep.

If the car is driveable I would take it somewhere and have it done. It should only take 5-10 mins.

 
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Bolt out worked great. Tried to drill out bolt. Snapped two bits. Tried to use an easy out snapped it twice. Finally knocked everything out with a tap and hammer after snapping my tap. Had enough of a tap left to retread. I put new higher grade bolts in no problem even bought a nut to put on top just in case the treads do not hold after all that.

 
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Cool, glad to here you got it fixed. Sounded like the bolt from hell!