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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 12:36 PM
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buyin a set of 1-7/8 headers and its between the Hookers or Kooks. There both stainess, my delima is theres a $130 price difference between the 2. Is it worth the extra money to buy the Kooks or spend the money else where? I know the people with the Kooks are die-hards it seems but looking for more of a neutral opionion. To me id save the money but dont know if the Kooks have better flow design over the Hookers.
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subscribing........ what about TSP's or ARH?
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TSP's are not stainless and the ARH are too expensive. So personially these two headers are the two ill be buying.
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 02:26 PM
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TSP's are not stainless and the ARH are too expensive. So personially these two headers are the two ill be buying.
Oh, ok. Cool.
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 05:52 PM
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I had a set of 1 7/8th primary kooks. They were very nice pieces. I bought them second hand off "slowz28" on here. He is from around the Chicago area, you might know him. Anyway, they were sound pieces. Zero experience with the hookers thus far, although I might be giving them a try with this current setup.
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Old Sep 9, 2009 | 02:27 PM
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I personally would go with ARH, but from the two choices above, deffinantly go with the Kooks. The Kooks have a much nicer collector than the hookers.
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Old Sep 9, 2009 | 08:58 PM
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I'm in the market for probaby the same headers.
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ill prob go with the hookers. They been making headers for every and im not splittin hairs with my car for max ETs so i think ill save the money personially.
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I would rather have Kook's, thier food taste better and Hooker's are ugly and to expensive.


Oh dang, you are talking headers!
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Old Sep 10, 2009 | 08:02 AM
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Lol at post above.. I had a pair of stainless super comps for my old lt1 and they were a really nice header a few of my friends have kooks and they also are really nice.
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Old Sep 10, 2009 | 04:02 PM
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Then why this post if you were in the market to save money. Remember,you get what you pay for........that simple.
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Then why this post if you were in the market to save money. Remember,you get what you pay for........that simple.


No **** huh? Just wanted to see if the Kooks were SOOOOOO MUCH BETTER!! Then i would spend the extra couple bucks but it doesnt seem so. And this day in age sometimes you dont ALWAYS get what you pay for..sometimes its just the name you pay for.
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I've had Hookers and Kooks they were both great quality.
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Old Sep 11, 2009 | 12:24 AM
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And this day in age sometimes you dont ALWAYS get what you pay for..sometimes its just the name you pay for.
That may be true, but when purchasing a header look at the overal design. Look at the Hooker headers collector, and then look at the collector of a more premium header such as a Kooks or ARH. You can't argue that all collectors are the same.
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Old Sep 11, 2009 | 03:36 AM
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kooks are very nice, and slid right in with no issues. very very nice, also, lower volume production. you can tell the difference in quality.
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