View Poll Results: Which is the better option?
Hooker Street Force
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Edelbrock TES
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OK so CA sucks but I can't get a smog here so I have to go back to smog legal. It is not worth the hassle of chasing down shady smog shops and leaving my car sitting for 6 months every two years because my tags are expired. So I am torn between the Hooker Super Comp Street Force and the Edelbrock TES both ceramic coated. The edelbrocks are made of 409 stainless but I saw one set of their headers which required you to install a heat shield on the wiper cowl and I don't necessarily want to do that. Any info would be appreciated please don't say long tubes, I have long tubes on it now and I KNOW.
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OK so CA sucks but I can't get a smog here so I have to go back to smog legal. It is not worth the hassle of chasing down shady smog shops and leaving my car sitting for 6 months every two years because my tags are expired. So I am torn between the Hooker Super Comp Street Force and the Edelbrock TES both ceramic coated. The edelbrocks are made of 409 stainless but I saw one set of their headers which required you to install a heat shield on the wiper cowl and I don't necessarily want to do that. Any info would be appreciated please don't say long tubes, I have long tubes on it now and I KNOW.
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Now Now this is not a pissing contest between long tubes or shorties, not everyone can have a buddy with a smog shop ^^^ I wish I did, then I wouldn't have to spend all of this money twice and then have to go get it tuned again
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Understandable. Just wanted to point out the difference between "having no other option and settling for the smaller benefits of shorties when compared to LT's" and "I have shorties and I love them". I was just curious if he had any comparison to base his opinion on that's all. Nothing personal either to him.
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no, not yet. i do know LTs are better but i love what they do for sound. they were free with the engine, thats why i have them. they did ruin my Rumbler catback, it sounded like a truck. the LM1 resonator fixed that
i would never say they are better than LTs, but for someone who needs to stay legal they are very good. find a used set for cheap and you are good to go
i would never say they are better than LTs, but for someone who needs to stay legal they are very good. find a used set for cheap and you are good to go
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To the OP's ?
I have had the Edelbrocks on my 350 and now 383 for 10 years Jet Hot coated. CARB SoCal Smog is why. Yes LT's are better from a performance stand point but that is not the ? here.
My car is a B-body and the DS header does have a "heat" shield welded to it to mask the brake booster from heat. Not sure if the F-body is the same. I did have to have a muffler shop weld a elbow which was included with the headers to the front of my stock CAT. No big deal and I have the "stock" elbow if for some reason I wanted to return to the stock manifolds and CATS...which I won't do.
I had DynoMax mufflers and now Spintech Sportsman XL's. With either motor or muffler the "sound" is enough to let you know something is there but I have never built the car for a "sound". I let the time slips do the talking.
heads/cam/T-56/383 B-body OBD2 tune....passes smog at "Test Only" with flying colors...Ed Wright tune is the key reason and having good CATS & O2's. I changed CATS at 100k miles to the magnaFlo OBD2 CARB ones (not cheap but legal in Calif)
I have had the Edelbrocks on my 350 and now 383 for 10 years Jet Hot coated. CARB SoCal Smog is why. Yes LT's are better from a performance stand point but that is not the ? here.
My car is a B-body and the DS header does have a "heat" shield welded to it to mask the brake booster from heat. Not sure if the F-body is the same. I did have to have a muffler shop weld a elbow which was included with the headers to the front of my stock CAT. No big deal and I have the "stock" elbow if for some reason I wanted to return to the stock manifolds and CATS...which I won't do.
I had DynoMax mufflers and now Spintech Sportsman XL's. With either motor or muffler the "sound" is enough to let you know something is there but I have never built the car for a "sound". I let the time slips do the talking.
heads/cam/T-56/383 B-body OBD2 tune....passes smog at "Test Only" with flying colors...Ed Wright tune is the key reason and having good CATS & O2's. I changed CATS at 100k miles to the magnaFlo OBD2 CARB ones (not cheap but legal in Calif)
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I had considered them as an option but they are impossible to find and they use the stock 3 bolt flange. My y-pipe has already been molested from my previous BBK shorties<---epic fail but I would consider them if I could find them new somewhere.
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BBK sucks and their header designs are completely different from Edelbrock as well as their available coatings from what I have researched. Edelbrocks are stainless and hopefully their welds are of better quality than BBK, but we will see. I am leaning towards the edelbrocks and if anyone is interested in my coated/wrapped pacesetter long tubes/ORY I will be posting them in the classifieds probably next week. I am not going to ruin a holiday weekend with a header swap
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well i havent had long tubes yet but i have the bbk shorties with true duals and i love them the difference in power was amazing, might be the true duals that helped tho.