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Old Dec 6, 2007 | 03:13 AM
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im buying headers this week and im trying to figure out is ceramic worth the extra money or if i use header wrap will it do the same thing im looking at getting a set of hooker headers untill i do a h/c swap in prolly a year and a half then i will get some good headers
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Old Dec 6, 2007 | 03:26 AM
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I have hooker painted headers and they do fine for the job.
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im buying headers this week and im trying to figure out is ceramic worth the extra money or if i use header wrap will it do the same thing im looking at getting a set of hooker headers untill i do a h/c swap in prolly a year and a half then i will get some good headers
if the choice is ceramic or header wrap..go with ceramic
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Old Dec 6, 2007 | 04:52 AM
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If your planning on replacing them in a year then I would just wrap em.
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Old Dec 6, 2007 | 06:25 AM
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Sorry, but my opinion is if you're going to go through the pain of putting headers in, just go with stainless and be done with it.
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