long tube headers
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long tube headers
im looking to install a complete kit on my 99 c5 ls-1, long tube headers, high flow cats, and an exhaust. looking for suggestions on which kits give the best results! my choices are, kooks, lg or dynatech. if u have any info, it would be greatly appreciated!!!
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Last edited by speeddemon2007; Mar 26, 2007 at 11:53 AM.
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American Racing Headers appear to be the favorites currently..
from a fit, performance , price standpoint..
see this current post...
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1659984
from a fit, performance , price standpoint..
see this current post...
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1659984
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From: Raleigh NC
I did the Melrose Smoothflow with the Borla Stinger catback. #'s are in the link. A 3 hour drive on the highway can be a little much, but around town its great. http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1634950
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I bought a set of ANR long-tubes WITH x-pipe on ebay. Should be here any day. Will let you know if they are total junk or not. They are mild steel, but in NASA, the sessions are short, plus the headers are coated. Half the price of other long tubes, so I've got my fingers crossed.
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I also have the Dynatech system and I couldn't be more pleased with performance and the fit and finish of the system.
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I was ready to kill him. I wanted to pull the earing out of the young little twerps ear! I was hot!
My car is super clean, inside and out and I'm gonna butcher my car like it was an old POS!Get this, I had to buy a new header myself. When we had the new header in place and we started bolting things back in place we realized that Stainless Works forgot to weld on the mounting tab at the collector!
We had to cut the tab off the ill-fitting header and weld it on the new pipe so we could finish up the job. This was my new replacement header!As far as I'm concerned their headers suck and their customer service is the worst possible!
If anyone has the name and personel phone number of the owner I would appreciate a PM.
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Drifting
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I couldn't get exactly what I wanted from one system. So what I did was go with the ceramic coated "Bassani" long tube headers and the hy-flow cats with the big x-pipe and then I went with the B&B Bullets,......BIG twin axel back! Waaaaaaaaay happy as Ive also done a lot of other mods and every singular thing I have done so far is part of a plan I put together back when I first took the path towards "a closer walk with the holy mother of acceleration"! 
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well, as this goes on, I must say that my racing experience has proven to me that LG's headers are the best out there, and the Supermaxx are a copy of them, but they are out of my price range this time around.