well guess i should have heeded everone's warning..flowtechs quality sucks big camel toe. my first impression was the damn little weld beads all over and just looked like they were flemsy. The damn primary "dent" they have done to save you from cutting your car didnt work, i still had to cut the **** out of mine and still had a dent..damn it They did not want to fit right at all. I have helped others do header installs but this has been by far the worst. To top it all off i was putting my blockoff plates for my egr and air tubes on and damnit if one of the air tube bolt holes was not even thereaded!!! i had to run a bolt through the thing and put a nut on the back of it..i know everyone says..well you get what you pay for but hey even if they are one of ther cheaper headers for the ls1 for that kind of money you expect better quality than that. I will NEVER buy another flowtech piece again. I saw on here somewhere where somebody would put on a set of LT"s for 100 bucks..i would have drove 5 hours and paid 200 dollars after this nightmare.
Matt

 

This seems to be the general consensus lately. I was planning on buying a set because of the price. I was considering Pacesetters, but the more people I talk to - the more I am straying away from those too. Right now, I'm looking at Jet Hot LT's w/o any smog fittings... still over $500 though. I was hoping to get away cheaper. If it sounds too good to be true, it must be.

 

Hey man I feel for you I learned long ago to spend the extra $$ if you got it or save it up and get quality stuff you won't regret

 

From what I have read and heard from people is that with all the header band names is that all are not going to be the same as the next and not everybodys cars are going to be the same, becasue my flowtechs went in with no problems at all. But that sucks man sorry to hear that about your headers



Thanks Dan

 

Thanks for the info. I was thinking about going with the flowtech headers myself. Now I think I'll just wait until I can afford the Kooks.

 

I was very dissapointed in the quality of my friends Flowtechs. For the $$$, I think the Pacesetters are a better buy.

 

I love my pacesetters

 

I would most definately agree. My install went extremely smooth, except for a driver side primary leak...nothing a new set of gaskets can't fix hopefully.

 

My buddy got the flowtech headers and they were junk, the primary tubes stuck out past the flange about a 8th of an inch, crappy welds, welding slag all over the headers, luckily a sponser here is supposed to send him a new set when they come in, but we havent heard anything from them yet.

I sure do love my MAC's

 

I just installed so Flowtechs on my buddy's 99 Z28 M6 today had no problems again


Thanks Dan

 

goes back to the old addage of you get what you pay for

 

yea yea i know (get what you pay for) but damn it man you shouldnt have to pay 1000 dollars for a decent set of headers.. i mean i know that headers in that range are going to be far superior to the cheaper ones (as they should be) and that youre getting a set of headers that will probably outperform others.But for 400 bucks you think you could get a set of "decent" headers that at least dont have slag all over them and have all the damn bolt holes threaded... i mean i spent 500 dollars total on a set of lt's/y combo. After all the trouble getting the headers in the damn y wouldnt even bolt in. ive helped others with installs and everything went smooth. i guess i have learned my lesson..it just chaps my *** to think i dropped 500 bones on a pile of ****..thats alot of money to a single man like myself with a car/truck,house payments etc... oh well ill stop my and call it a day.
Matt

 

My Flowtechs went on with out any problems as well. No rubbing or banging isues what so ever, but on the other hand my brother had a horrible time out of his, he still had to bend the dented primary a good bit to keep it from rubbing. We did mine first and they fit perfect, but had we did his first, we definitely would have went a different route, So im in betweeen on these right now.

 

I have a Flowtech cutout, it is the only thing I'd buy from them. Sorry to hear about your problems.

 

I just put some Flowtechs on my car today w/o any problems. The coating and everything looks very good.

 

I installed some coated Flowtechs weekend before last. Install was straight forward. I was satisfied with the fit, finish, and overall quality, especially for the $$$. I would definately buy them again.

 

i installed various sets of headers before, i can truly say that the flowtechs i installed last weekend was one of the fastest installs i have ever done. the passenger side header was in in less than 2 minutes.

 

damn guys i think i must have got a "Bunk" set. I went to have my y pipe put on yesterday morning since i wanted it welded in place and i boy i got some news i didnt want to hear. Firts off it is very hard to see really well without a car lift, i had my car up on ramps with 3 2x4's stacked together underneath. this was enough to install my equipment but not get a really good view of my install. The o2 sensor seemed extremely hard to install but i thought it was just because the hole had never had anything in it. In other words it was really hard to screw in. well with my car up on the rack at the shop i got to see the whole picture..the reason my o2 sensor didnt want to go in becasue it was cross threaded, from my angle it looked straight but since i was standing eye level with the piece under the rack i could see it. the header sits so close to the car there is NO WAY possible to screw it in straight, it still hits the car even when its a 1/16th from being in all the way. Its still pushing up on the sensor with a lot of force ,enough that a quick torque of the motor could snap it in half, and this also is why my y pipe would not fit. it was over 3/4" of a "pipe" off. In other words if we bolted the driver side up the pass side was damn near the whole width of the flange off, he said the only way to make it work would be to cut the y add piece to make it bolt up, and also move the o2 bung back about 3 inches so it would screw in properly. He said hw thinks the primaries on the driver side were just bent way to far he said he sees this sometimes. That combined with the fact that on the same header the air tube flange was not tapped for a bolt just a hole drilled, leads me to believe that this one side was a fluke from the factory, i think the QC man/woman was on lunch break. it just sucks i got to de-install everything,mail them back,wait on the next shipment in (out of stock), aand then reinstall, what a biotch. as for the comment above yes, my passanger side couldnt have went easier either. it was a BREEZE i think i just got a turd for the driver side. I wish i had a dig camera to show you guys how close this collector is to the car. i have saw pics of the headers on cars on this forum and they werent NEAR as close as mine.
peace
matt

 

Man you really should not take the Lord's name in vain. If you must ay that G dammit at least sai GOT instead of GOD.

Just a freindly reminder not meant to **** you off or anything..

jdog36

 

my apologies jdog if i offended you or anyone else, i edited it out, and will refrain from doing it again. i was just extemely mad after all that work for nothing.
matt