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If you want the best quality short tube headers contact Donna at Sanderson’s Headers in South San Francisco.
They’ve been manufacturing the highest quality headers since the 1960’s, still family owned, operated and from the same location.
Donna is the owner and she knows more about headers than anyone.
Don’t let people tell you they make less power, because short tube headers will make more torque than a long tube header up to about 4000 rpm.
If you go to Sanderson’s website you can see the dyno results they posted.
Ram Horns do make good numbers and you can’t argue that they can be made to look really cool.
I'm sorry but long tubes make more power everywhere.....they just do....and the advantage increases the more overlap the cam has....
And the muffler thing is bunk too.....there are dozens of long tube vs. shorty in the LS world....and the last one I read on a Tahoe 5.3 beat out shorties everywhere on the curve with a full exhaust system.
If Sanderson Headers had done a head-to-head dyno comparison, swapped just the headers, but also allowed the car to be re-tuned to optimize performance for either case, perhaps they could have proven that shorty headers are "better" for street applications below 4000 RPM. Instead, they post pages of press-release marketing technobabble, and the only graphs they show look like hand-drawn cartoons.
Compare what Sanderson calls a "dyno plot" to an XKCD comic:
And compare it to a real dyno plot. It's a Ford engine, sorry, but it shows the expected Torque increase across all RPM ranges.
But, hey, put on what you think looks cool! I nearly bought a set of the 2.5" outlet smooth rams horns for my 79 L48. before buying a 5.3L engine instead (from a Silverado, not a Tahoe).
Last edited by Bikespace; Oct 29, 2025 at 09:03 PM.
