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Old Feb 24, 2008 | 01:23 PM
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Guys,

Which between these 3 has the best ground clearance.

-Pacesetter
-Flowtech
-Hooker

They will be on a true-duals setup, so i'm looking for the best ground clearance (even if ti's 1/8 of diffrence it counts), and if they are all the same, then easiest installation and way to customize the exhaust behind them, because they are not all the same in design, so some might give a ehadhacke to fit in.

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Old Feb 24, 2008 | 03:32 PM
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Ive got the pacesetters and they tucked up very nicely. Was very happy.
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+2 with pacesetters, verry happy with them
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+3 Pacesetters, and i am lowered!!!
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+4 pacesetters, they tuck up really nicely to wear the stock cats used to be.
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+5 Pacesetters, because of the ease of installation and I haven't scraped them, yet.
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Old Feb 25, 2008 | 12:11 AM
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I'm one for Hookers .....mine dropped right in. I say dropped in because my heads were off while I was doing my head and cam swap. As far as ground clearence go's im more than happy, my car is also lowered.
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My hookers seemed to hang low, but never scraped. I would have to say that pacesetters have always appeared to have better clearance. Just depends on what you are installing them on.
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Gonna be installed on stock engine/heads. For those who are droped, what's your drop height and how far are the headers is it from the ground?
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my pacesetters tuck good too. y-pipe hangs lower than the headers. only ones that really suck ***** for ground clearance are the SLPs.
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I'm really low and the pacesetters are fine. I've been through a few y pipes and had to modify one to get some clearance but the headers never scrape.
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Originally Posted by JayErnie
Gonna be installed on stock engine/heads. For those who are droped, what's your drop height and how far are the headers is it from the ground?
I thought you were trying to get at your heads are milled so much that it was gonna start causing clearance problems!!!!
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