Header setup advice...
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Drifting
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From: Round Rock,Austin, Texas
Header setup advice...
I am about to buy some hooker headers and was wondering which way I should go. I am going to buy the Y pipe as well...so that pretty much means no cats. Sohow is the Y pipe gunna hook up? Will I have to get rid of the Main Cat? I already am running elims...and I dont want it to be way to loud. What should I do? Any advice?
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Safety Car
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From: Connectivette
Re: Header setup advice... (castivers)
That's the exact set-up I have, TPIS Longtubes including their y-pipe and Eliminators. They sound bad azz. (albeit on an L98)
TPIS headers are $. $750 coated and comes with the y-pipe. The apeal to me was having a header/y-pipe system that is a direct bolt on to the stock cat. No cutting,bending,trimming, welding, crying, swearing of any sort. I was willing to pay the extra $200 or so for this conveinence. Did it myself in the garage with the front of the car on ramps and the rear on jackstands :thumbs:
TPIS headers are $. $750 coated and comes with the y-pipe. The apeal to me was having a header/y-pipe system that is a direct bolt on to the stock cat. No cutting,bending,trimming, welding, crying, swearing of any sort. I was willing to pay the extra $200 or so for this conveinence. Did it myself in the garage with the front of the car on ramps and the rear on jackstands :thumbs:
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Drifting
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From: Round Rock,Austin, Texas
Re: Header setup advice... (chucks88)
Ok, but do the TPIS Long Tubes come with strait bolt on to the main cat for the LT1's?
What is the Model # for the headers that I should get?
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What is the Model # for the headers that I should get?
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Racer
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From: Surrey BC
Re: Header setup advice... (RadPolo96)
what an LT1 you don't get the y-pipe only the headers. From the end of the headers, get a muffler shop to fab up a pipe that connects to the factory pipe on each side in front on the resonator. This is what I recall from memory anyways. :cheers:
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From: Phoenix AZ
Re: Header setup advice... (RadPolo96)
I was actually looking at the C4 Long Tube headers. Wil they fit the LT1?
Le Mans Master
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From: Oak Harbor WA
Re: Header setup advice... (RadPolo96)
You can't run long tubes with bullet cats and an automatic on your LT equipped C4. Doesn't fit because there isn't enough room. You have to get shorties to be emissions compliant or go catless.
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Drifting
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Re: Header setup advice... (Zix)
So I cant get Y pipe for my car? I would instead have to run true duals? I have been reading that Bullets tend to cause a heat problem with an A4. Does anyone have pics of a install of headers with LT1 install?
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Melting Slicks
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From: Green Bay WI
Re: Header setup advice... (RadPolo96)
So I cant get Y pipe for my car?
I have the TPiS long tubes in the basement (getting ready to do this job in the spring). I'm thinking about ditching the PE resonator and getting a Dr. Gas X-Pipe in it's place... :)
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Re: Header setup advice... (RadPolo96)
So I cant get Y pipe for my car? I would instead have to run true duals?
Le Mans Master
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From: Phoenix AZ
Re: Header setup advice... (Goody)
You can't run long tubes with bullet cats and an automatic on your LT equipped C4. Doesn't fit because there isn't enough room. You have to get shorties to be emissions compliant or go catless.