Texas Speed headers install
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Le Mans Master
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Texas Speed headers install
I finally decided to pick up a set of long tube headers. I wanted to get a used set of LG's or American Racing but I heard good things about Texas Speed long tube system. I bought their 1 7/8 primaries with a catless x pipe. I'm going to mate them up with a pair of Bi mode Z06 mufflers. These are going on my recently purchased 05 Z51 Coupe. I snapped a few pictures but I'll take some quality pictures when I do the install.
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Make sure that when you do the headers, that the slave cylinder hose, from the manual transmission if you have it, is not touching the headers. If it does it will melt and be a big job to fix.
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Melting Slicks
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Looks great
It's going to sound nice and perform amazing-
I'd like to see the collector and primaries when you get to it. I installed a set a few years back when they first came out for the C6 and they look like they have been improved.
It's going to sound nice and perform amazing-
I'd like to see the collector and primaries when you get to it. I installed a set a few years back when they first came out for the C6 and they look like they have been improved.
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St. Jude Donor '09
Highest Horsepower LS3 with simple bolt ons?
Texas Speed seems to think so. Their headers work! I have never seen numbers like this either with an intake and exhaust:
We had a guy with our 1 7/8 longtubes and x pipe and your 108 super bee on an ls3 car with no other mods put down 451/448 this weekend. As far as I know, that might be one of the highest HP ls3 cars ive seen with just intake and exhaust.
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Le Mans Master
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Hey Jim, this is good to know! These are going on my little LS2 but I hope to maximize my gains with their system. I also have a Halltech Venom intake minus the bee hive. Maybe you could help me with that?
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Very nice-
Their collector has changed and it now has a velocity spike I see and the primaries look pretty good inside too-
When you get there, be sure to get the LS3 maf (down the road). I installed the Halltech 103 maf forward (LS3 blade) when I had VR tune my LS2 TFS/G6X3 set up-
The devil is in the details when you're looking for all the power-
Their collector has changed and it now has a velocity spike I see and the primaries look pretty good inside too-
When you get there, be sure to get the LS3 maf (down the road). I installed the Halltech 103 maf forward (LS3 blade) when I had VR tune my LS2 TFS/G6X3 set up-
The devil is in the details when you're looking for all the power-
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Hey Booz, yeah that's too bad one would expect top notch fitment on $1800 set of headers. I couldn't justify spending that much on headers again with the decent quality headers like Texas Speed ones.
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Finally got around to install my headers today. I am glad I installed header studs, they make holding the gasket and lining up the header a breeze. These headers fit great slip right in like a glove. The only speed bump I had was the dip stick tube had to be trimmed or ground down to fit around the headers but no biggie. I would highly recommend Texas Speed Headers, I've owned a $1800 set of headers and these fit just as good. I took a couple of photos of my install and will continue to post pictures of my completed exhaust project.
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