Thanks for all the kind words. I was hoping to get you guys some video but I ran into a couple minor issues at the end. I think anyone taking this on will incur some small unexpected things. Maybe these should be shared more to help others. My exhaust shop had difficulty in doing the splice because flanges were not readily available locally. I should have ordered the exhaust manifold weldable flanges up front to save some time and money. In the end the shop bought two passenger side downpipes (since the drivers side is connected to a cat). They modified the flange on the drivers side to work so I could have my truck back that day. Also I asked them to service and recharge the AC. Since the high side check valve was the original one from 95, it burst as soon as they connected to it. The part was available over the counter at my local Avance Auto. I will have to drive back to his shop this weekend and have it recharged. By the time he got the truck back to my house, the junkyard alternator bearings were whining. I ended up buying a brand new 145amp alternator but at least now I had a core to trade in. Yesterday I swapped the alternator and then after putting everything back on, found a nasty belt chirp. Looks like my power steering pump pulley is not pressed on far enough. Despite it looking to be in alignment, it was clearly off when I tried to put a straight edge on the harmonic and power steering pulleys this morning. Should be an easy fix when I get home from work today.
While doing a random check yesterday, I felt the need to heat tape wrap the starter wires as they seem to come a lot closer to the stock manifold than the old headers. Ill get a pic of that up tonite. Also I am getting two Check Engine codes. One for an O2 and one for VSS. Mike is coming down tomorrow to do some more tuning. Hopefully we can get that squared away.