Best headers for C7's
Dig
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I've had both Chinese knock offs on my C5 with great success with NA and nitrous. Had Kooks on my highly modified NA Z06. 5rwhp is nothing unless extracting the most of your setup. The cost difference is another matter or is the matter. I'm seeing all these new headers manufacturers having great qualities in different ways. Our new 15... Probably Texas Speed for the first time.
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Burning Brakes
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Interesting you used the word "fitment"... That's what I'm looking for. Fitment and obviously quality. Sounds like you did a comparison between the Stainless Works and Kooks? Nice numbers too. Thanks for the feedback.
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Burning Brakes
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I've had both Chinese knock offs on my C5 with great success with NA and nitrous. Had Kooks on my highly modified NA Z06. 5rwhp is nothing unless extracting the most of your setup. The cost difference is another matter or is the matter. I'm seeing all these new headers manufacturers having great qualities in different ways. Our new 15... Probably Texas Speed for the first time.
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Burning Brakes
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I have never had longtube headers without a blower but with my C7 I am torn. My car is a 15 Z51 A8 and when the headers are installed I will have the AFE cold air intake, ARH longtubes with high flow cats and an ECS dyno tune. The car should be pretty quick. For the street where most of my driving is done it's plenty. I like being able to keep it simple bolt ons and beat it and floor it whenever without much concern. My C6 had the ECS kit, meth, bolt ons and it was fast as hell but demanded way more respect and thought. Not sure If I will keep my stingray just a bolt on car or eventually go eith the ECS kit again.
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ARH customer service has gone downhill. I had a set on my C5 and they were fine. I am running TSP on my C7 and have a set of Kooks on the way for my 2015 6.2 1500 truck. I'll never buy ARH again, unfortunately.
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I have never had longtube headers without a blower but with my C7 I am torn. My car is a 15 Z51 A8 and when the headers are installed I will have the AFE cold air intake, ARH longtubes with high flow cats and an ECS dyno tune. The car should be pretty quick. For the street where most of my driving is done it's plenty. I like being able to keep it simple bolt ons and beat it and floor it whenever without much concern. My C6 had the ECS kit, meth, bolt ons and it was fast as hell but demanded way more respect and thought. Not sure If I will keep my stingray just a bolt on car or eventually go eith the ECS kit again.
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Burning Brakes
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Hey Higgs, interesting you bought TS for your car, but Kooks for the truck... Any particular reason for that? I know the C6's the Kooks dominated in the header world on those cars, but people seem to be diehard about the ARH on the C7's.
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From: Bergen County NJ
So you're definitely going with ARH? Superchargers on these cars are very docile until you ask for the power. I have an A&A kit and its manners are near stock until after 3k rpm's then it really comes to life. I don't have any issues with the power output, just want that crisp, sharp sound only headers can provide. I truly thought I'd be fine without headers because these cars sound so damned good with the factory NPP exhaust, but, with a supercharger, the tone changes and not for the better. If you add a supercharger it must get headers too. Lesson learned.
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If TSP had some ready that's what I would have gone with.
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They fit well and the tunnel plate is a very minor issue, IMO. They just barely touch and can easily be spaced or bent around. For a 1000 dollar (give or take) savings it's a no brainer.
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My experience with ARH customer service was very good.
I was an early buyer of their mid-length headers and when they set a CEL for cats inefficient, the president of ARH called me personally late in the day, explained the cause, and promptly shipped the new cats.
Fitment was perfect and they sound great. I am a fan of ARH.
I was an early buyer of their mid-length headers and when they set a CEL for cats inefficient, the president of ARH called me personally late in the day, explained the cause, and promptly shipped the new cats.
Fitment was perfect and they sound great. I am a fan of ARH.
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My experience with ARH customer service was very good.
I was an early buyer of their mid-length headersand when they set a CEL for inefficient, the president of ARH called me personally late in the day, explained the cause, and promptly shipped the new cats.
Figment was perfect and they sound great. I am a fan of ARH.
I was an early buyer of their mid-length headersand when they set a CEL for inefficient, the president of ARH called me personally late in the day, explained the cause, and promptly shipped the new cats.
Figment was perfect and they sound great. I am a fan of ARH.