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Old Feb 20, 2008 | 07:35 PM
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bought a set of pacsetter LT's just to see if i was gonna like headers on my car. well they have been on the car about 8 months now and i like what it did for the car so im looking to upgrade to a nice set of stainless headers.what should i get as far as price, fit and finish and perfromance, i know they arent cheap so what is the best stainless headers for the price, and what y pipe fits the best and seals up the best and doesnt leak, if i have one complaint about the pacesetter headers its the crappy *** y pipy and not being able to get it to seal at the collectors.

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or what other good brands of stainless headers are there
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Old Feb 20, 2008 | 08:34 PM
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the qtp and arh are great headers,just put on a pair of stainless hooker supercomp header and they fit great and i really liked the y pipe,im thinking they were aroun d 600.00 for the headers-but not 100% sure-have to look tomorrow to be sure
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Old Feb 20, 2008 | 08:52 PM
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from the research ive done, i really like QTP. they also were the best price of the three brands. the only complaints i have seen about them are that the y-pipe sucks, but you should get a custom one made anyway with any set of headers IMO.
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Old Feb 20, 2008 | 10:04 PM
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Kooks or ARH are probably the best! I have seen nothing but good stuff with the Kooks setup. I love the fit of my Hooker Ceramic Coated headers, so the stainless ones should fit just as well.
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Old Feb 20, 2008 | 10:30 PM
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Kooks,QTP,or Dynatech
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Old Feb 20, 2008 | 11:14 PM
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Kooks has great quality and fit. Y-pipe is awesome too. Great clearence and stainless to boot.
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Old Feb 21, 2008 | 12:11 AM
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XS / SSAutochrome... A lot cheaper and just as good. Some people say the fit is terrible, but Ive had more problems with Pacesetters, and QTP's.
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KOOKS all the way.
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Kooks and ARH in my opinion are the only quality buys.
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