Shorty Headers?? Please read.
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Shorty Headers?? Please read. Hey everyone. I found a kit from pacesetter that seems pretty bad ***. It's for 99 camaro(ls1). they are mid-tube (shorty) headers. you keep the cats in the stock location and it also comes with a 3" Y-pipe. the headers are ceramic coated, and i believe the Y is painted. you get all this for 480$ or so. Are shortys gonna give me just as much power gains as long tubes?? is this a good deal? If you guys could help me out, or even give me more info and advice, that'd be great. thanks fellas.
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hey choco do you have any flanges in your exhaust? I see you have the cats welded straight to the collector on your headers, just thought that would make for a fairly hard in/uninstall with out a lift. Do your cats throw any codes?
Shortys are an option if your worried about ground clearance. You will have some gains, but not as much as LTs. I guess it depends on your performance goals. As for the cats, if you can get away with tuning them out, and still passing emissions testing, then I wouldnt even worry about them. As for the Diablo tuner. No it will not delete the rear O2 codes. Only clear them temp.
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His whole exhaust is welded. Do a search for his original post.
Your best bet is to find someone that will put those IN the Y pipe and not welded to the LTs. Just for future mods/dropping the tranny and such. Wouldnt be hard for a exhaust shop to weld those in the Y for you. I wouldnt have an entirely welded system like Chocos for that reason alone. No offense meant here either Choco.
I would just have a shop cut a section of the Y out, and place the highflows in there. That way you can still drop the Y out for tranny work without cutting/rewelding. O2s will still be ok.
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I had the codes deleted so I don't throw any codes. Otherwise, I'd have an SES light. When it's time to uninstall, I'll just get them cut off and add flanges then.
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My cats are NOT in the stock location.