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Old 01-18-2010, 10:56 AM
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my buddy wants me to buy these headers for him, tell me what you think, and has anyone purchased them?

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sounds like a good deal..i bought some painted ones from ebay a while back and worked like a charm ..
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A buddy of mine bought a set of those and they hit the K-member. He had a couple different clearance problems with them
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yea i think most the people that have problem with ebay headers just dont change there motor mounts so they run into problems. i have a buddy with good heads and a nice cam and ebay headers makin in the upward of 460 rwhp....i know they do work...
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Get them and dont look back. I have ebay headers me and a buddy put them in in 3 hrs and no grinding and they dont bang kmember.
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and what y pipe did you guys run with them .
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you get what you pay for. look at the driver's side collector and how it's pointed up. that will result in some banging probably. you're most likely have to grind the k-member with these also. there's also stories of the egr or air hangers falling off due to shitty welds.
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and what y pipe did you guys run with them .
i bought a set of these about 4 years ago, when it was something like ssautochrome that was selling them. i just had one made, most any muffler shop can do it, and that way its garunteed to fit. if i had to do it again though, id buy a flowmaster merge and bring that to the shop instead of just letting him make a "slammed" junction.
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Originally Posted by mike135531bubba
you get what you pay for. look at the driver's side collector and how it's pointed up. that will result in some banging probably. you're most likely have to grind the k-member with these also. there's also stories of the egr or air hangers falling off due to shitty welds.
x2 on this^^ don't buy these i'm running them on my car now driver side and passenger side rub the k-member and my passenger side egr tube broke off, *** soon as funds become available i'm buying new headers, the one plus side to these headers is they is they sound great and they have great ground clearance,BUT,you definately get what you pay for
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I had a set and they were nice. The welds and quality was great for the price.

Only problem, like others have stated, was the the drivers side hit the k-member. I knotched it out with a blow torch and no more problems.
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As its been said by the previous posts, the driver side collector is at an off angle, and my driver side header rubs the kmember, thus resulting in vibration and more resonance in the vehicle. passenger side went in like a dream, driver side required some banging. for 150 bucks it wasn't bad tho.
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Any coke can pics of the ground clearance with these headers?
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there are huge threads on ebay headers already......and even a sticky
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I don't understand why we cannot discuss eBay headers still. I know the rules in the sticky but that was before ls1tech decided to show eBay listings in the classifieds section. I see no reason now as to why we cannot fully discuss these headers.
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Originally Posted by Hamrdown
I don't understand why we cannot discuss eBay headers still. I know the rules in the sticky but that was before ls1tech decided to show eBay listings in the classifieds section. I see no reason now as to why we cannot fully discuss these headers.
I agree ^^^, most people are trying to get the best bang for thier buck. We need more pics and info on these ebay headers.
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pay the price. get the good ones and you only have to buy them once and dont have to worry about anything with the good ones...
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Originally Posted by Hamrdown
I don't understand why we cannot discuss eBay headers still. I know the rules in the sticky but that was before ls1tech decided to show eBay listings in the classifieds section. I see no reason now as to why we cannot fully discuss these headers.
There is a huge thread in External on these headers. An ONGOING thread. You can discuss them, you just cant post direct non-sponser links. Thats it, simple.




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