1997 Camaro Z28
i want to order my headers and exaust i have about 700 for both headers and exaust.
i saw some in my price range but i honestly dont know which to get.


if anyone here can take sometime and hit up a few websites and recommend me headers and exaust and let me know which ones are goo and are in my budget that would be awesome. please send me links here so i can see them and purchase them. would really appreciate it.
****emission legal please****. Thank you

 

sorry bud but the only CARB legal headers for a 97 are hooker shorties or edelbrock shorties and either one will run you close to 600 dollars which will not leave much budget for a catback

 

I worked with about the same budget and went with pacesetter lts for headers. they have all the emission hook ups and are fairly cheap. For the exhaust I picked up my own muffler and took it to a local muffler shop and had them custom make me a full exhaust header back. They custom made the y-pipe for cats and all. the prices were about 300 for headers, 80 for muffler, and 375 for the custom exhaust. I went with the cheaper painted headers instead of the ceramic since i was planning on wrapping them anyways.

 

Find a lenient smog shop and get some LT headers. Don't waste your time with shorties...

 

Yeah, LT's are definitely the way to go to build power, but you'll pay $$$ for them... You can pick up a Flowmaster American Thunder cat-back system from summit (www.summitracing.com) for about $400 I think... I paid somewhere around there, but I've got a '94.

Pacesetter shorties are the best value in headers, but again, they're not huge power-gainers, and not the prettiest.

 

X2. Previous owner before me had shorties on my car and I just swapped to LT, ORY, and noticed a HUGE difference in power

 

If you have to deal with the smog police, then I would get a good cat back and high flow cat and have a good muffler shop make you a mandrel bent y pipe. The stock y pipe is the most restrictive part of the system. Forgot if you were 96-97, but if you are 93-95 single cat, that is the way to go. I did mine like that, and sure headers will bring you max hp and torque, but if they are not legal, then the route I just mentioned. Also later on you could get a deal on a set of shorties, and they would still work with this setup.

hth

andy schuck

 

Magnaflow makes a 3" replacement y pipe. Thats what i have on my car thru a high flow magnaflow cat and the slp lm1 cat back. Probably flows almost as good as shorties. Its as loud as i could stand it now. When i get headers im gonna get a new cat back.

 

Definitely go with the lts. they are a little harder to put on but its worth it. And since you are on a tight budget i wouldn't even worry about a high flow cat. they are pretty expensive and you don't get much out of them. Maybe a couple hp if your lucky.