Headers advice
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Teching In
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From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Headers advice I'm getting ready to buy some headers but I haven't decided if long tubes would be better or if shorty's would be. Does anybody have any plus or minus on this? Please let me know.
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From: Huntsville, AL
Longtubes
+horsepower
-reduces ground clearance
-will not work with stock y-pipe
-will not pass emissions in some states
Shorties
-only small horsepower gains over manifolds
+will work with stock y-pipe
+doesn't affect ground clearance
+will pass emissions in most states
I went with longtubes since AL doesn't check emissions. My car is not lowered so it didn't really affect my ground clearance.
+horsepower
-reduces ground clearance
-will not work with stock y-pipe
-will not pass emissions in some states
Shorties
-only small horsepower gains over manifolds
+will work with stock y-pipe
+doesn't affect ground clearance
+will pass emissions in most states
I went with longtubes since AL doesn't check emissions. My car is not lowered so it didn't really affect my ground clearance.
not all headers have bad ground clearance. but the Y pipe is going to matched with MIGHT have bad clearance. headers barely scrape unless they are SLP as i "heard" but in my case i never scraped a header lol dont waste your money on shorties.
Thread Starter
Teching In
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From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
alright thanks yeah I've been trying to decide which one but that information helps out a lot. I did have like a 3 inch drop on it. It was like that when I bought it and I scraped everything. But I just went back to stock height for now. I'm wanting to put 2 single chamber mufflers coming off each header ( haven't decided which ones yet) go into an x-pipe, put electric cut offs in there somewhere and then dump it right under the rear seats. And haven't decided whether to leave the cats on or off.
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