8ty8 LS1

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I tried searching, but i may not have been using the correct words...

my father is looking for a set of long tube headers that mate up to the stock exhaust system. why? i really don't know, but hey, that's what he wants. Car is completely stock. Just wants headers and HF cats. Does Kooks make a set that use the factory exhaust?

Please don't chime in with the OBX, my dad saw those and didn't like them for some reason. Any help would be appreciated.

NIKDSC5

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OBX are a direct copy of kooks so.....same thing. No headers will just bolt up to the factory exhaust and will require at least some modification, all be it minimal.

93hatch

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He's gona need to buy a midpipe anyway if he wants cats

BudRacing

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Correct. Any longtube for this car will require ditching the stock cat converters. IIRC Pacesetters may bolt up to factory exhaust, but I would search a bit more on that. They aren't available in Stainless though.

I have OBX headers and will vouch for their quality. It was very impressed when I got them. I have them mated to the stock pipes, but it required about a foot of pipe trimmed off the front to mate the catted mid-pipes. They've been clamped and aren't the best fit, but I've neglected to take them to an exhaust shop for welding.

ls1247

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so instead of ditching the factory cats, you cut them down and fit them further back in the exhaust system, the hooked the headers up to that...right??

8ty8 LS1

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i think he meant that he had to trim the new catted mid-pipes so that they fit?

ls1247

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he had to trim the stock exhaust for the catted mid-pipes....

BudRacing

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For Kooks or OBX the mid pipes are required for install unless you have a custom exhaust setup. The catted mid pipes that bolt up to the header fittings have slip fittings that mate up to the stock or aftermarket 2.5" pipes.

ls1247

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^^^There's a lot of welding and pipe fitting going on there....is that typical?

Looks good though!

8ty8 LS1

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thanks for the replys guys! i saw on kooks website late last night that they have a catted mid pipe that slips onto the stock resonator (you'll have to trim the stock resonator pipes to fit).