QTP or Kooks? Which has the least ground clearance?

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Feb 14, 2007 | 01:56 PM

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QTP or Kooks? Which has the least ground clearance?

Like in the title, which set of headers sit lower to the ground? My T/A has a pro-kit on it... is there much of a difference in these 2 brands as far as clearance goes? And I will be running a catted Y.

Feb 14, 2007 | 02:14 PM

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I say the Kooks.Althogh I havent seen the QTP's; I have the Kooks with a lowered car and the tuck very nicely. Great quality headers IMO. Never have scraped them eather

Feb 14, 2007 | 02:21 PM

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i'm going with kooks b/c i've heard they tuck well.

Feb 14, 2007 | 02:42 PM

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LOL at the kooks tucking nice...can't speak 4 the QTP but kooks LOL.My car has a pro kit on it and its low might be different on other car's but mine... nah just as low as my brothers Hooker's.Just my$0.02

Feb 16, 2007 | 11:06 PM

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The QTPs tuck nice. If you go true duals you won't have to worry about the Y-pipe that hangs a little low.

Feb 17, 2007 | 01:42 AM

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I have the QTP's and offroad y. The headers tuck nice but the y is a little low. I got eibach prokit also. I would watch it with a catted y the cats are pretty big and will hang

Feb 17, 2007 | 08:19 AM

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only problem i got with my kooks is the y-pipe would hit the bottem of the car when u would get on it, but i got a lil bracket riged up now...

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Feb 18, 2007 | 09:41 PM

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Thanks for the responses fellas

Feb 18, 2007 | 10:34 PM

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i got QTP's the headers are fine it the y-pipe that hangs loww

Feb 18, 2007 | 11:27 PM

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The Kooks stuff sits higher than stock. Pics of mine in my sig, car lowered about 1" in rear. When my car was lowered like it was in my sig (now it's a bit higher), I had no problems, and that bitch was SLAMMED. Now it's slammed +1/4" lol.

Feb 19, 2007 | 10:55 AM

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Go with Kooks.

I have a QTP setup and my catted Y its crap. I hit it so much that my cats are now gutted

You might also want to look into American Racing their headers are like QTPs with the merge and all and the Y pipe has compact cats.

Feb 19, 2007 | 05:11 PM

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I have Kooks, tucked up better than the stock exhaust did.

Feb 19, 2007 | 05:31 PM

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+1 for Kooks my headers, and catted Y fitt like a glove

Feb 19, 2007 | 05:59 PM

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Well if ya went with QTP, go with a custom y. Get a flowmaster merge, some cats, and then have an exhaust shop fab up some pipes for ya and get that thing tucked tight! Thats what Im doing.

Feb 19, 2007 | 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by EvilBLK02TA

Well if ya went with QTP, go with a custom y. Get a flowmaster merge, some cats, and then have an exhaust shop fab up some pipes for ya and get that thing tucked tight! Thats what Im doing.

that's what i wish i had done !

Feb 19, 2007 | 06:30 PM

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Thanks a loooot fellas, I just got off the phone w/ a local vender and they reccomend kooks over QTPs as well. They are about $100 or so more, but if it saves me some clearance, whats another $100 on a set of SS LTs.

Feb 20, 2007 | 10:17 PM

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Well, I was dead set on QTPs, then after reading the responses in this thread and talking to a few other folks, I am happy to say that I just purchased a set of Kooks Long Tube Headers :woot: