Shorty headers for base C6
Melting Slicks
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From: Round Rock Texas
What I have found there are a lot of cheap LS7 exhaust manifolds out there but the cat can't be found any more. I am thinking a lot of people sold those for scrap money.....
If anyone has a source please list and it you find them will also need the mid pipe to make a recuder to connect to the stock tail pipes. After all that is done will cost more than the shorty headers
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jul 2015
Posts: 2,291
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From: Round Rock Texas
I am sure this has been brought up many times so forgive me but I am trying to find the easiest bolt on shorty headers that can reuse the cats and the rest of the current exhaust. I have read that it is not worth doing but I don't want the hassle or the expense of doing longtube headers. I want a little more sound and a better look under the hood. Have any of you done short tube headers and if so what brand did you use and was it an easy install? Thank you in advance for any replies
About the only one still making them is hooker. There was another company but those cant be found anymore. Some one here had a whole lot of trouble installing the hooker ones I will see if I can find the link
here is the link
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...xperience.html
Last edited by sirdano; Jul 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM.
Cruising
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Those are good choice but the problem is finding the 4 bolt cats. You need those to bolt up to the manifolds.
What I have found there are a lot of cheap LS7 exhaust manifolds out there but the cat can't be found any more. I am thinking a lot of people sold those for scrap money.....
If anyone has a source please list and it you find them will also need the mid pipe to make a recuder to connect to the stock tail pipes. After all that is done will cost more than the shorty headers
What I have found there are a lot of cheap LS7 exhaust manifolds out there but the cat can't be found any more. I am thinking a lot of people sold those for scrap money.....
If anyone has a source please list and it you find them will also need the mid pipe to make a recuder to connect to the stock tail pipes. After all that is done will cost more than the shorty headers
Cruising
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Not a waste of time for anyone living in California, the collectors on the shorties have a bigger diameter than on a stock ls3 manifold = less restriction especially if running the carb legal A&A kit like a lot of guys do. If long tubes were legal then I’d never consider shorties but you know how that goes.
