Just my opinion, but I would rather save the money and have mild steel headers with modern ceramic coating on it any day over SS. Since the headers I have used only came in SS, I have had them coated and never regretted it. I have used coated, Jet Hot Ceramic coating, on 5 different sets of headers now and never regretted it. Under hood temps are my biggest concern with all these close fits now days and the Ceramic beats all, and yes, that includes uncoated SS headers.