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Old Feb 22, 2009 | 12:57 PM
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Hey guys I'm bout to purchase some Headers and I wanted to know which one of these headers had less issues with the install... all positive input is welcome..
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Old Feb 22, 2009 | 01:09 PM
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No need to make 2 threads asking the same thing.
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Old Feb 22, 2009 | 01:15 PM
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sorry dude.. I F*@k up...
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Old Feb 22, 2009 | 01:25 PM
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This just isn't a great question - to get a good answer, you'd need to have one person that has installed both. My Kooks install was a breeze, but I've never installed a set of ARH headers.
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Old Feb 22, 2009 | 02:19 PM
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ARH's were extremely easy. Fitment and quality was second to none...but also the only set of headers I've installed.

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Old Feb 22, 2009 | 06:18 PM
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Ours are very easy no jacking the motor an stuff
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Old Feb 26, 2009 | 11:36 PM
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My kooks were easy, i also changed the motor mounts at the same time
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 10:02 AM
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Both install very easy.With the kooks you have to get the car higher to get the drivers side in.
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I don't think you can go wrong either way. I'll be installing my AR headers in the coming months, and every write-up I've seen on them has shown it to be a good fitting piece that is fairly easy to install. The same can be said about Kooks. I went with AR for the new merge collectors, and they were on sale.
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Old Mar 10, 2009 | 07:11 PM
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Being a Kooks owner myself..I would go with ARH. It looks like they used a cheaper stainless steel on my Kooks headers..They deffinantly dont look like the same material that was posted above..Surface rust on whats supposed to be a quality staintless steel header sucks.
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both are top notch, cant go wrong with either choice tbh
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