Headers: Your Opinion
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From: Gettysburg PA
I have LG Pro's and if I had it to do again I would have gone with the Americans. I've been to their shop and they realy make a high quality product. They're also willing to do custom changes for you. Give them a call.
Just my 2 cents.
Just my 2 cents.
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I don't buy that for a second. The install is VERY involved and time consuming. It took me about 10 hrs. and a lot of tools, not to mention I had to jack the car up on all fours about 18" or so. Don't mislead anyone about the 'ease' of the install. And I'm a seasoned mechanic.
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I don't buy that for a second. The install is VERY involved and time consuming. It took me about 10 hrs. and a lot of tools, not to mention I had to jack the car up on all fours about 18" or so. Don't mislead anyone about the 'ease' of the install. And I'm a seasoned mechanic.
Since MANY have installed the LG's in REASONABLE amounts of time with little to no experience, PLEASE DO NOT MISLEAD anyone about the facts of the install. Wow i'm only a backyard mechanic and I can even install KOOKs in a little over 2 hours, ON MY BACK. 
And those bad boys are alot of work. LG's are very easy to install, if you can wrench even a little at worst it's a 4 hour job.
The AR product is the hot new kid on the block, but I went with the tried, true, and tested performance king, the LG's.
The above said, you can't go wrong with either system.
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From: Pasco WA
Yeah, I did my LGs on jackstands, and it probably took me 6-8 hours, but I really went slowly, with many malted beverage enhanced breaks. I'm not a "seasoned mechanic", just a shade-tree variety, but I figure if I can install the things, that automatically makes it "easy". 
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Easy is installing air bridge, or some tires and wheels. No header job on a corvette is easy, except for possibly shorty headers. I spent more than a couple hours wrapping my starter and wiring looms with heat shielding to keep that stuff from burning up under sustained high speed/rpm use. You obviously didn't even think to do that, but that is the 'sound' way to install a set of headers, by protecting the items around it that weren't designed for the additional heat that headers produce.
Heck, you can't even jack a vette up to the requisite 18" and lower it back down to the ground in less than a half hour, unless you have a lift...
Easy is not the term I would use to describe a LT header install on a C5 vette, and I would say that YOU were misleading people to say it was!
(Sorry, just had to do it 
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