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Old May 16, 2010 | 11:11 PM
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I have long tubes on my car just installed solid motor mounts well the collectors on my headers turn up slightly so i want to cut the collector back some to gain clearance that i need.My Question is will this hurt performance because i see some LT's that have hardly any collector just flange.Here is a pic of where i am thinking of cutting and putting flange.
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Old May 17, 2010 | 11:36 AM
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I would suggest not cutting back further than the merge where the pipes come together. In the picture it looks like you're right in the middle of it.
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Old May 21, 2010 | 11:49 PM
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Just a thought but any chance you can take that to a muffler shop or even yourself to heat and bend that sucker down? I would think if you had some torches and stuck that end over a nice internal tight fitting pipe you could just pull on it to straighten it out. But I could be way off. Just my .02
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i would get some new headers that actually fit...looks like that one is beat to **** already...ebay headers right?
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the picture i posted is of a set similar to mine just used the picture to show how long the collector is
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