Hooker Headers and side pipes leaking
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Should be this one.
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku
Be warned, they are LOUD.
Should be this one.
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku
Be warned, they are LOUD.
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you need to call jet hot or hooker,,,jet hot will ship them direct to you from hooker and hooker I think is a tad cheaper,,,,currently the max flos are on back order.
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I remember trying the reverse flows for the first time, I put them in the sidetubes and slipped them onto the collector without tightening the bolt just to hear them at idle. I started the car and after a few seconds I reached in and just barely blipped the throttle and blew both the sidetubes off! Yep, there's some restriction.
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Great Info on Grinding a little off of the side pipe clamp
Yea, Hooker Side Exhaust, the Stainless are as bad as the painted on fit. I have had nothing but problems with these headers with the fitment. The drivers side sucks. Now after starting it condensation is leaking out of the joint between the the collector and the side pipe. Hooker has their head up their ^%%$$#@. After thousands of calls and complaints you would think their popsicle truck engineers would figure it out instead of selling their problems to us to figure out, and them doing Nothing about the quality control.. Another Pathetic American Company too big for their britches , now that Holley owns them on the way to extinction only to be sold out to the Chinese, they will get it straight. The Headers they were making in Mexico years ago were better than the American Made. Keep up this stuff, tell people you dont pay for labor , after you sell them products that do not fit, and you pay to get it installed, or worse, did it yourself and are told to take it off and they will send you another set ? What a scam. Basically their warranty is junk. So lets get this straight, we are Hooker Headers, we sell defective Headers, we will replace them under warranty, and wont pay the R and R labor, and yea and you will pay the freight too. ? Just throw your money in the toilet. It's like a life long job to try and get a lousy product that has been made for 50 years and still blows. Hooker should be ashamed to say Made In America. A Class Action would be good to all of the poor suckers like me that have paid out the nose for their so called high quality and are dealing with it on a daily basis. Did I mention I owned a Corvette Shop ?
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Yea, Hooker Side Exhaust, the Stainless are as bad as the painted on fit. I have had nothing but problems with these headers with the fitment. The drivers side sucks. Now after starting it condensation is leaking out of the joint between the the collector and the side pipe. Hooker has their head up their ^%%$$#@. After thousands of calls and complaints you would think their popsicle truck engineers would figure it out instead of selling their problems to us to figure out, and them doing Nothing about the quality control.. Another Pathetic American Company too big for their britches , now that Holley owns them on the way to extinction only to be sold out to the Chinese, they will get it straight. The Headers they were making in Mexico years ago were better than the American Made. Keep up this stuff, tell people you dont pay for labor , after you sell them products that do not fit, and you pay to get it installed, or worse, did it yourself and are told to take it off and they will send you another set ? What a scam. Basically their warranty is junk. So lets get this straight, we are Hooker Headers, we sell defective Headers, we will replace them under warranty, and wont pay the R and R labor, and yea and you will pay the freight too. ? Just throw your money in the toilet. It's like a life long job to try and get a lousy product that has been made for 50 years and still blows. Hooker should be ashamed to say Made In America. A Class Action would be good to all of the poor suckers like me that have paid out the nose for their so called high quality and are dealing with it on a daily basis. Did I mention I owned a Corvette Shop ?
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I don't like the power decrease of the reverse flows (I did learn something recently, though, that there are 2 reverse flows, an early and a late... the late are a lot better at flow)
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I used an inch wide band of antiseize followed by some Copper permatex behind it and no leaks. Same as mentioned some of the grey antiseize came out, just wiped it off and everything is fine.
Good luck driving with the MaxFlo inserts. They sound great at idle but under load and acceleration the tone got old and annoying really quick for me. Very Loud but not horrible loud it was just the deep tone/droneish sound they have that turned me off within a week. I do have a 107 centerlobe cam though so it's louder on it's own anyway. Had some guys at a shop say they heard the car a few minutes before I got there and that it was pretty darn loud.
Good luck driving with the MaxFlo inserts. They sound great at idle but under load and acceleration the tone got old and annoying really quick for me. Very Loud but not horrible loud it was just the deep tone/droneish sound they have that turned me off within a week. I do have a 107 centerlobe cam though so it's louder on it's own anyway. Had some guys at a shop say they heard the car a few minutes before I got there and that it was pretty darn loud.
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Yea, Hooker Side Exhaust, the Stainless are as bad as the painted on fit. I have had nothing but problems with these headers with the fitment. The drivers side sucks. Now after starting it condensation is leaking out of the joint between the the collector and the side pipe. Hooker has their head up their ^%%$$#@. After thousands of calls and complaints you would think their popsicle truck engineers would figure it out instead of selling their problems to us to figure out, and them doing Nothing about the quality control.. Another Pathetic American Company too big for their britches , now that Holley owns them on the way to extinction only to be sold out to the Chinese, they will get it straight. The Headers they were making in Mexico years ago were better than the American Made. Keep up this stuff, tell people you dont pay for labor , after you sell them products that do not fit, and you pay to get it installed, or worse, did it yourself and are told to take it off and they will send you another set ? What a scam. Basically their warranty is junk. So lets get this straight, we are Hooker Headers, we sell defective Headers, we will replace them under warranty, and wont pay the R and R labor, and yea and you will pay the freight too. ? Just throw your money in the toilet. It's like a life long job to try and get a lousy product that has been made for 50 years and still blows. Hooker should be ashamed to say Made In America. A Class Action would be good to all of the poor suckers like me that have paid out the nose for their so called high quality and are dealing with it on a daily basis. Did I mention I owned a Corvette Shop ?
