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Old Sep 5, 2021 | 11:03 AM
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Default TSP headersLooking at headers and I am seeing the Texas Speed headers are literally 1000.00 cheaper than kooks or American racing. I k ow kook and AR are the best in the business and I have run kooks before on my c5 z06 but are they really that much better than texas speed? I have a local speed shop that will install Texas Speed headers and catted or off road X pipe for less than 1700.00 including a tune. That is cheaper than just the other headers alone. Thoughts?
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Old Sep 5, 2021 | 11:18 AM
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Texas Speed is a good outfit. Performance wise the Z06 factory exhaust is pretty good also bringing good money in the aftermarket world.




































































































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Old Sep 5, 2021 | 11:40 AM
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Texas Speed headers have ground clearance issues. I'd use the $700 ebay OBX headers before Tx Speed. I've bought a lot of stuff from Tx Speed over the years. No way I'd run their headers though...no matter how inexpensive they were.
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Speed Engineering at $500 for headers and mid pipe is a bargain. They are back ordered now but supposed to be available this month ?
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Never mind. I just bought a set of Kooks with catted X pipe.
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Good move. Mine went on without issues. I have over 30K miles on them with two different muffler systems. No leaks, no rattles, no rubs, they just work.
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Good move. Mine went on without issues. I have over 30K miles on them with two different muffler systems. No leaks, no rattles, no rubs, they just work.
I had them on my C5 Z back in the day and never had an issue..
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Originally Posted by old motorhead
Texas Speed headers have ground clearance issues. I'd use the $700 ebay OBX headers before Tx Speed. I've bought a lot of stuff from Tx Speed over the years. No way I'd run their headers though...no matter how inexpensive they were.
I have the OBX headers and have no issues - bought on ebay for $500 including x-pipe

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Do they throw any codes with the cats that come with the kit?
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I believe all headers with modified cats will throw a code
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