I am looking into doing headers on my truck ive been told by a couple people to do equal length headers and then just to go with long tubes not sure which route to go?? Also wheres the best place to buy them and make?
Long tubes or equal length headers??
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From the FAQ sticky on this page:
8) Are headers worth it?
Yes and No:
For the money shorty headers are a waste of time all the way. Long tube equal length headers will only show real gains when you are pushing a lot of boost and have greatly modded your L. They sound awesome but are expensive for the dollar to hp you get.
A high flow two cat or no cat midpipe setup is much better for power when starting out. The stock manifolds are good up to around 500 RWHP, the only drawback is that a midpipe that bolts up to stock manifolds won't work unless modified when switching to L/T's so keep this in mind.
I personally have Long Tubes, with high-flow cats and it sounds awesome.
8) Are headers worth it?
Yes and No:
For the money shorty headers are a waste of time all the way. Long tube equal length headers will only show real gains when you are pushing a lot of boost and have greatly modded your L. They sound awesome but are expensive for the dollar to hp you get.
A high flow two cat or no cat midpipe setup is much better for power when starting out. The stock manifolds are good up to around 500 RWHP, the only drawback is that a midpipe that bolts up to stock manifolds won't work unless modified when switching to L/T's so keep this in mind.
I personally have Long Tubes, with high-flow cats and it sounds awesome.
I was considering doing headers becuase my passanger and driver side manifolds are leaking, the passanger side has already been fixed once so I wasn't sure what else I could do besides headers??
I love my long-tubes, BUT I didn't pay for them, lol. If your stock manifolds are leaking, you need to do something. Where is the leak?
Long tubes all the way... I had stock manifolds, then Bassani shorty headers and my Kooks longtubes are the way to go. If you ever go built you will need longtubes anyways.
I kno its leaking threw manifolds went to a local custom exhaust shop thats done alot of work for me and they told me the manifolds where leaking....so i cant stand the sound of a leaky exhaust so i just assumed i was going to have to invest in some headers weather or not there worth the moeny..........
Get the Long tubes and don't look back
Go with the longtubes and some good makes are dynatech or kooks. There are a couple other good headers out there, those were just the first two that I thought of.
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I vote longtubes of some sort, the install is just so easy, why do anything less?
http://www.svtperformance.com/forum...longtube-headers-1999-2004-svt-lightning.html
http://www.svtperformance.com/forum...longtube-headers-1999-2004-svt-lightning.html
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I like the kooks setup.....with long tubes do most people take out there cats or leave them in because i got high flow cats right now........
personal preference with the cats.... off road x (no cats) will be louder.
im about to see how loud it is...on my built engine ill be running dyna tech longtubes catless mids with magnaflow outback. im sure it will bring plenty of attention lol. it was fairly loud before with stock manifolds bassani catless mids and magnaflow.
With the long tubes if i keep the cats i can just buy flanges to weld up to the cat back to bolt up to the headers?
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