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Are they gonna use grease when they bend you over? TY for your service, Semper Fi! take a ride to Alabama with the headers we'll have you going home the next day. good tune is $500 but I would notlet anyone do it. you could stop at Vengeance racing in Cumming Ga on the way home, $2000? for the headers $500 for the tune, $4000 for labor, I think they saw you coming, 3 hours tops for someone that has done it before, 4 if he has a coffee.
Shops often go by book time for quotes. GM book time for a spark plug change on a C6 is 3.2 hours pay time 2.6 hours warranty time just to give you an idea of how high book time really is and where these high install prices come from sometimes. Also, kooks with cats are going to be around $4,000+ for parts only now. Dyno tuning is going to be anywhere from $600-$1000 +/- a few depending on where you live, now add labor and tax.
Edit: Book time is the following for removing and replacing the exhaust manifold.
Ls3 1.2 hours left side
Ls7 1.9 hours left side
Ls9 1.9 hours left side
Ls3 1.1 hours right side
Ls7 1.9 hours right side
Ls9 1.9 hours right side
These times are for OEM so it doesn't factor in anything extra with aftermarket.
Kooks $4,000
let's say $600 labor (4 hours at $150)
tuning $600
Total $5,200
Tax lets use 7% $364
Total $5,564
I would say that's not an unreasonable quote at all if the tax rates or labor rates are higher than what I put down. I stopped selling Kooks because of their last price increase and I have Kooks on both of my cars. Look into American Racing Headers, their long system with cats for an LS3 C6 is $2,515.
That's the only cats kooks will offer anymore. Their off-road x is $1,600+. It's crazy I think I paid $1,800 a few years ago for my kooks with cats on my wife's car.
Ya'll wild, cost me a 6 pack of beer, some jackstands, and 2 hours of my life (although most of that was spent drinking said beer)... these are the easiest cars in the world to do headers on. Even more so if you have a wet sump.
Ya'll wild, cost me a 6 pack of beer, some jackstands, and 2 hours of my life (although most of that was spent drinking said beer)... these are the easiest cars in the world to do headers on. Even more so if you have a wet sump.
agreed, I did mine this weekend and I struggled more ******* with my mufflers than I did with the whole header and midpipe install.
Yeah if it takes you more than 2 hours to do headers in these cars your either completely green or your not trying. Even with the dry sump and having to deal with the oil lines maybe 3 at the most if it fights you but... not generally. Hell I can have the subframe on the ground, the motor propped up and ready to pull the balancer in 4 hours... Everyone acts like these things are so hard to work on, you won't find an easier GM LS vehicle to work on.
Ya'll wild, cost me a 6 pack of beer, some jackstands, and 2 hours of my life (although most of that was spent drinking said beer)... these are the easiest cars in the world to do headers on. Even more so if you have a wet sump.
I am in MD, hell how much you want to install I'll take a ride to ya when my set comes in....dead serious btw
