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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 08:12 AM
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Default LG Pro Long Tubes and now American Racing Long tubes

Anybody here have any issues with these as far as clearance goes or any other problems for that matter?

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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 08:43 AM
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I had no issues with mine other than they caused a dramatic decrease in fuel economy.......but my lead foot didn't have anything to do with that at all.
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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 09:00 AM
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I live in Kuwait gas prices are the least of my concerns. (.50 a gallon 93 octane, $1 for 100 octane) LMAO. From what I hear money can't buy better I just have to deal with a lot of damn speed bumps and I was miserable with long tubes in my t/a.
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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 11:26 AM
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I have LG Pro's and they are the ****!!! I picked up 40 RWTQ from 2500-4500 RPM's vs. TPIS LT headers. Definately worth the money!! I have some clearance issues but I have lowered my car quite a bit. I don't care though, they perform great.

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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 11:33 AM
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Well that puts a smile on my face! How much did you lower your car if you don't mind me asking?
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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 02:09 PM
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I have them and mine is lowered around an inch. Every so often the back bolts of the clamps might scrape. Other then that I'm fine.
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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 06:32 PM
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My LG's are great. No clearance issues but my car is not lowered. As for MPG make sure you get a tune. With my mods I increased MPG except when I get on it.....but who cares?
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 12:59 AM
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About how much rwtq did you guys gain from the headers alone?
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No issues whatsoever, just handling the extra Torque.......LOL !
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 01:53 AM
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Then again that's not a problem........
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 02:46 AM
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Well just got an email from a and a corvettes and they stopped selling the LG headers so i opted for the American Racing headers instead. Andy told me they were just as good if not better. Any opinions?
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 05:05 AM
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Got the LG Pros; if i hadda do it again I'd probably go American Racing simply for fact that LG's have 6 slip-fit/clamp joits, AR's only 2.

I'm guessing they are all about the same in power, may as well go for fit.

No clearance problems with the LG's.
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 08:10 AM
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Do not know about the american racing ones, but I definitely like my LGs.
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 08:34 AM
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from what I am reading is there is not much difference between the two and looking at pics. I guess my main concerns are 1 performance and 2 clearance.
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 12:01 PM
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I have heard a ton of good things about AR headers. I went with the tried and proven performance gains of the LG's though. I was thinking about doing a side by side dyno comparison of the two but I am going to build a FI motor soon and didn't want to spend the money. I don't think you can go wrong either way but the LG's are awsome.

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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 02:54 PM
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Sounds good. When I get them in I will post the gains. I will get it dynoed after the header install before I put the heads and cam in so we can get a comparison of the two.
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 05:18 PM
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Car's slammed, no issues with my LG's. However, I do have a small scrape mark on them from when I pulled inside my shop a little too fast. But, that was my fault. Other then that, no issues. I'd highly recommend a tne to go with it. Since you live outta the country, you may want to go with a handheld tuner, after useing several brands, I hghly recommend Diablosport. They have multiple tunes of mine on file with a stock LS1 and long tubes only. With the combo, you'd be happy.
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Old Feb 15, 2007 | 05:55 PM
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You get what you pay for....you bought a vette for a reason right? Otherwise you would still be in a F body....no offense to f body people, great car but different. Step it up...order for LG directly, you can talk with Lou. He makes a top notch product and keeps coming out with new things for vettes. Support those who directly support our habbit and get race quality and performance!

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Old Feb 16, 2007 | 12:34 PM
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Already ordered the AR not because of money just mainly because of convenience. Also for Vseries I am using hptuners right now and its working out for me. I guess we will see how the AR's do I guess if they aren't good enough I will sell them and buy some LG's but I will give them a chance first.
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