Head/header installation
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Instructor
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From: Rochester New York
Head/header installation
I'm going to install some long tube headers in my 02 this winter also new heads.My question is by installing the heads would that make the installation of the long tube headers easer since the heads will be removed from the engine? Also i just want to bump up the hp a couple notches not full racing just some street fun, what do you recommend for a good ported head and valve set up? Thanks in advance.....
Le Mans Master
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From: DP(oh you know where) IL
St. Jude Donor '06
i would think so. with most of the header installs the the coil paks and waht not are in the way. Just remember to put the headers in before you put the heads in. Correct if im wrong.
Race Director
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From: Haymarket VA
Originally Posted by DPG
i would think so. with most of the header installs the the coil paks and waht not are in the way. Just remember to put the headers in before you put the heads in. Correct if im wrong.
Burning Brakes
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From: PA
Originally Posted by Classical Glass
I'm going to install some long tube headers in my 02 this winter also new heads.My question is by installing the heads would that make the installation of the long tube headers easer since the heads will be removed from the engine? Also i just want to bump up the hp a couple notches not full racing just some street fun, what do you recommend for a good ported head and valve set up? Thanks in advance.....
Team Owner
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From: At the beach in little Rhody
Stay with small ports. AFR 205's come to mind as do the new ones from Precision Porting that Bob recently posted photo's of here on the forum. The ET Performance heads look real nice, but apparently they are not drop in and require changes to the spark plug wires and the alternator bracket. Jury is out on the Darts and the Edelbrock heads as well as Trick Flow. The AFR's are written up in the new issue of Corvette Enthusiast magazine (January 2006) where Vinci High Performance put them on a stock C5 and picked up about 40 HP at the wheels 
