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Old 07-04-2007, 09:30 PM
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whats the best header performance wise and fit and i would app some sound clips to thanks guys
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Depends on what you wanna spend. Budget guys go with pacesetters like myself and they fit nicely and sound great
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i like my pacesetters a sound clips in my fquick
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supposedly the best fitting one's are the kooks/qtp's... but they are also the most expensive...
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i purchased the kooks. they are great, fit like a glove, stainless steel, but cost alot, pacesetters are the best bang for the buck. its all on how much u wanna spend
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QTP perform a lil better than the kooks do but they dont fit nearly as well, try a search or use the stickies there is alot of info
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Originally Posted by Numba1Stunna
QTP perform a lil better than the kooks do but they dont fit nearly as well, try a search or use the stickies there is alot of info
they are the same headers... i used to sell them...
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I personally prefer Kooks and sell a lot of them. That being said, if you can't spend the money on them....Pacesetters, and Flowtechs seem to do well....we sell alot of them too.
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I have pacesetters good fitment and sound real good.
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there is a difference between qtp/kooks/stainless works" all those are high end" and the lower end, pacesetter, flowtech, ebay headers etc... the middle ground is your hooker coated and stainless maybe SLP too, it all comes down to you get what you pay for, performance wise all LT headers (same size) perform about the same. nothing you will notice while driving. you may get a difference on the dyno of maybe up to 5 rwhp between them all, but you can get a set of ceramic pacesetters for alittle under 400 to your door from most of the sponsers here, alot of people here will tell you thats the way to go, personally i went the cheap route and got pacesetter uncoated 3 years ago they are rust colored now and still perform great. its the best $260 i ever spent perfomance wise. the higher end headers alot of the time have cats that are very easily interchangeable, you may want to put some thought into that if you have strict laws where you are from. if i could do it over again i would get the pacestter coated and get either 3 bolt flanges or the ball flanges installed and get that done to my pacestter y pipe as well to ensure a leak free connection at the header y pipe joints,
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I was tempted to buy the pacesetters because of the price but I saved my money and bought the QTP's and it was worth waiting the extra couple of months for. They fit perfect they dont touch or rub anything and I didnt have to touch the K member.
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its all about how much you wanna blow really
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American Racing all the way if you want to spend the money!!!
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QTPs are good, stainless steel, good looking header, Not a good fit, but they come with high velocity merge collectors which apparently show a good top end gain in HP, Kooks are equally the same stainless steel, good fit, expensive for the name, no velocity collector unless requested, but you can find some good deals.. ARH newer company of the three, stainless steel, velocity collectors (i dont know about fitting). Pacesetters cheapest bang for buck, rust after a couple of weeks, good fit
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i just bought the stainless headers and y pipe from the new sponsers for 550 shipped, cant beat that concidering its all stainless steal and you get headers and a nice y pipe, couldnt be more pleased, very nice headers
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Just so you guys know... Kooks makes the headers for QTP, or at least they did back when I worked at RKSport... I spoke to the Kooks guys and they told me "it's a little insider secret but we make and have designed the headers for QTP"...




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