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How are your Stainless headers holding up?

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Old Nov 7, 2008 | 02:00 PM
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Just curious, i am going to be ordering a set sometime this winter, and i have never had stainless headers before. Right now i have the coated ones and they look just like the day i put them on. Do the stainless ones look as goood after a few years?? Obviously they wont rust, but do they discolor at all?? Let me know your experience.
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Old Nov 7, 2008 | 02:02 PM
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Best $200 I have spent on my car so far.
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Old Nov 7, 2008 | 02:08 PM
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I had my SS headers coated. Other than loosing a bit of the luster of polished SS, they are still silver satin in color and look great.
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Old Nov 7, 2008 | 03:22 PM
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My Ebay headers just turned Golden.....that's about it.
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The stainless headers do discolor but it won't look as nasty as a set of rusty headers.
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Old Nov 7, 2008 | 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by JScamaro
The stainless headers do discolor but it won't look as nasty as a set of rusty headers.
Word.....rusty headers FTL
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Old Nov 7, 2008 | 04:03 PM
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yeah any set of stainless headers will turn that golden color,mine turned that color right after the first startup,and stayed that way ever since.
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My QTP's are golden literally and performance wise. No regrets.

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Old Nov 7, 2008 | 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Detoxx03
My QTP's are golden literally and performance wise. No regrets.
Yeah. I don't have headers yet, but I wouldn't be pissed if they turned gold in color. As long as they don't rust
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Old Nov 7, 2008 | 11:54 PM
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No rust and beautiful baby
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Old Nov 8, 2008 | 01:53 AM
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Slight color change to a bronze-ish, once you give'em hell for a few days. Had mine on for a few weeks before the photo was taken. The white stuff in on the bottom of the tranni was my radiator fluid that leaked after I did the free throttle body mod. There is a difference between fuel hose and radiator hose.
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i can deal with the golden color, just didnt want them to look like hell for the $$ i am going to be forking over. Now the question, ARH, or Kooks?? I like ARH's merge much better, i just wish somebody had a ball and socket y-pipe attachment instead of slip fit joints. I absolutely hate exhaust leaks.
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my amercian racing look fantastic slight discolor but still looks much better than the coated I use to have
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Old Nov 8, 2008 | 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by rpmauto
i can deal with the golden color, just didnt want them to look like hell for the $$ i am going to be forking over. Now the question, ARH, or Kooks?? I like ARH's merge much better, i just wish somebody had a ball and socket y-pipe attachment instead of slip fit joints. I absolutely hate exhaust leaks.
KOOKS redesigned their collector and it is now on par with ARH. If you are lowered I think the ARH Y will give a bit more clearance. You can't go wrong either way.
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Mine are 6 years old and look awesome, golden colored.
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My kook's are a little golden, but thats normal with S.S. I guess.
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Originally Posted by blownws6_nc
My kook's are a little golden, but thats normal with S.S. I guess.
You can expect them to turn gold right after the intial fireup and cool down, but I've had my on for 2 years now and it's still the same color now as it was the day it fired.
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Coat them they look fantastic and perform better!
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Coated definetly better, my S.S. had some disclouring and more than I'd have liked.
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Originally Posted by Websy21
Coated definetly better, my S.S. had some disclouring and more than I'd have liked.
would you rather they rust through?

mine have been on for almost two years now and have changed colors from silver to gold to bronze and now have some purple areas, but still no rust, and perform as well as they did the day i put them on
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