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Old Mar 4, 2002 | 07:21 PM
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Default Differences in LS1 heads....?

It looks like the 98-99 Heads have round exhaust ports and the 2000+ have oval ports. What is the reasoning behind this? There was no listend performance gain from 99-2000.

Also will 98-99 headers work on the 2000 heads sans emmisions?
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Old Mar 4, 2002 | 07:29 PM
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I have 98 heads that i am porting and they have oval exhaust ports, stock. One difference i know of is later 2000+ heads have better flowing intake valve than 99 and back. Difference is from 5.7 to other heads like 5.3, etc they seem to have different exhaust ports than 5.7.
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Old Mar 4, 2002 | 09:17 PM
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Then why the two sets of gaskets in the head swap kit?
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Old Mar 5, 2002 | 05:37 AM
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Default Re: Differences in LS1 heads....?

Corvette LS6 has different exhaust port shape and takes a different gasket, until 2002, now new gasket works on both styles.
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