Cat replacement pipe
Cat replacement pipe Does anybody make a pipe the will fit in place of the catalytic converter? I need new cat's and don't want to spend the mony. I've searched and can't find any of these. I have a 98 Z28.
Have you tried posting a WTB thread in the classifieds for cats? I don't think many people bother to post them for sale anymore as they are hard to move for any amount of money. I have a set from my 2000 SS that I would like to sell off, but there is not a lot of interest. I think most end up selling to the scrap merchants threads.
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Thanx for all the replies but I was looking for a cheap way out. Maybe I should just design a replacement pipe for the cat and put them up for sale? Would there be a Law against that? Thanx to all.
you would have to be a sponsor to advertise on here, I'm sure you could do it MUCH cheaper but for the gains they're really not worth the price/effort when you can get ebay longtubes for $200 and gain a whole lot more
I was looking at the ebay headers but...........are they any good. I was thinking that if I bought them one day I would come out to start my car and the welds wouldbe broken, cheap ya know?????
..says the guy with the kooks headers sig. have you ever used ebay headers? installed a set? had a problem with a set?
I have a 120k mile car. I will not pay $1,000 for a set of headers to put on a car worth only a few times that amount. I actually drive my car, it doesn't sit in a garage. I'm not going to be one of those guys posting a thread crying every time my exhaust scrapes, or not lowering because I'm worried about my exhaust, or being afraid to drive my car in certain places because I'm afraid to scratch my shiny pipes. They fit well, the welds look good, they don't rust, and they're affordable. And you can bash them for what grade of steel they're made of or whatever you can claim is wrong with them, but if a day comes where they crack I'll spend an hour pulling them off and welding them, or just buy another set. They work for me, and a lot of other people too.
sooo OP, that is my opinion. if you have a show car or are building a no expense spared race car by all means go kooks. if you'd rather put cash for something else, the ebays get the job done for me.
I have a 120k mile car. I will not pay $1,000 for a set of headers to put on a car worth only a few times that amount. I actually drive my car, it doesn't sit in a garage. I'm not going to be one of those guys posting a thread crying every time my exhaust scrapes, or not lowering because I'm worried about my exhaust, or being afraid to drive my car in certain places because I'm afraid to scratch my shiny pipes. They fit well, the welds look good, they don't rust, and they're affordable. And you can bash them for what grade of steel they're made of or whatever you can claim is wrong with them, but if a day comes where they crack I'll spend an hour pulling them off and welding them, or just buy another set. They work for me, and a lot of other people too.
sooo OP, that is my opinion. if you have a show car or are building a no expense spared race car by all means go kooks. if you'd rather put cash for something else, the ebays get the job done for me.
Buy some cheap high flow ceramic cats off ebay, then gut them. I've got less than $70 in mine shipped and about 30 min with a BFH and a very large pry bar. Mine passes a visual all day.
..says the guy with the kooks headers sig. have you ever used ebay headers? installed a set? had a problem with a set?
I have a 120k mile car. I will not pay $1,000 for a set of headers to put on a car worth only a few times that amount. I actually drive my car, it doesn't sit in a garage. I'm not going to be one of those guys posting a thread crying every time my exhaust scrapes, or not lowering because I'm worried about my exhaust, or being afraid to drive my car in certain places because I'm afraid to scratch my shiny pipes. They fit well, the welds look good, they don't rust, and they're affordable. And you can bash them for what grade of steel they're made of or whatever you can claim is wrong with them, but if a day comes where they crack I'll spend an hour pulling them off and welding them, or just buy another set. They work for me, and a lot of other people too.
sooo OP, that is my opinion. if you have a show car or are building a no expense spared race car by all means go kooks. if you'd rather put cash for something else, the ebays get the job done for me.
I have a 120k mile car. I will not pay $1,000 for a set of headers to put on a car worth only a few times that amount. I actually drive my car, it doesn't sit in a garage. I'm not going to be one of those guys posting a thread crying every time my exhaust scrapes, or not lowering because I'm worried about my exhaust, or being afraid to drive my car in certain places because I'm afraid to scratch my shiny pipes. They fit well, the welds look good, they don't rust, and they're affordable. And you can bash them for what grade of steel they're made of or whatever you can claim is wrong with them, but if a day comes where they crack I'll spend an hour pulling them off and welding them, or just buy another set. They work for me, and a lot of other people too.
sooo OP, that is my opinion. if you have a show car or are building a no expense spared race car by all means go kooks. if you'd rather put cash for something else, the ebays get the job done for me.
I hear ya, I'm cheap and drive my car 200 miles every day. I like driving my car that is what I bought it for. Just wanted to hear from someone that knows they are a good header Thank You!! also gutting some cheap cats sounds like a Very Nice Idea also, like I said cheap. I really have enough horsepower to blow off the idiots on the highway and thats what I am concerned about.
Thunderbolt ceramic high flows off ebay, bought from race parts direct. They are $39.99 a piece now and they are very easy to gut. The ceramic just falls off, and with the spun design of them it's not like hollowing out a stock cat. They flow as good as a straight pipe. I put them on before gutting them and it killed it, and that was the reason for gutting. Try it out, you may even be able to find them cheaper!
..says the guy with the kooks headers sig. have you ever used ebay headers? installed a set? had a problem with a set?
I have a 120k mile car. I will not pay $1,000 for a set of headers to put on a car worth only a few times that amount. I actually drive my car, it doesn't sit in a garage. I'm not going to be one of those guys posting a thread crying every time my exhaust scrapes, or not lowering because I'm worried about my exhaust, or being afraid to drive my car in certain places because I'm afraid to scratch my shiny pipes. They fit well, the welds look good, they don't rust, and they're affordable. And you can bash them for what grade of steel they're made of or whatever you can claim is wrong with them, but if a day comes where they crack I'll spend an hour pulling them off and welding them, or just buy another set. They work for me, and a lot of other people too.
sooo OP, that is my opinion. if you have a show car or are building a no expense spared race car by all means go kooks. if you'd rather put cash for something else, the ebays get the job done for me.
I have a 120k mile car. I will not pay $1,000 for a set of headers to put on a car worth only a few times that amount. I actually drive my car, it doesn't sit in a garage. I'm not going to be one of those guys posting a thread crying every time my exhaust scrapes, or not lowering because I'm worried about my exhaust, or being afraid to drive my car in certain places because I'm afraid to scratch my shiny pipes. They fit well, the welds look good, they don't rust, and they're affordable. And you can bash them for what grade of steel they're made of or whatever you can claim is wrong with them, but if a day comes where they crack I'll spend an hour pulling them off and welding them, or just buy another set. They work for me, and a lot of other people too.
sooo OP, that is my opinion. if you have a show car or are building a no expense spared race car by all means go kooks. if you'd rather put cash for something else, the ebays get the job done for me.
I only have the Kooks sig because they were giving away a free set if you had their sig in your posts. So I don't have a set of Kooks but they are on my list when I get closer to finishing my new build.
I did have a set of coated Hookers on my car and the coating came off and rusted to ****. I won't buy another set of mild steel headers ever.
I drive my car just like you and its most likely the reason they rusted like ****.
I'm not like you, I don't want to have to pull my headers off because of them cracking if I don't have to, hence we go back to the "you get what you pay for" It sounds more like you are into just driving your car, I am more into driving and racing my car. I don't just race at the track either. So I end up getting my money back on the parts I buy and my depreciating car.
It also has been shown that ARH's and Kooks will make more power than cheaper headers such as Pacesetters and Ebay headers.
Do they work: Yes
Do they work better than a better name header: No
This is my opinion just like you had yours, we just come from different views on the subject.