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Posted by 90Fox (Member # 1974) on :
 
sup i need to find the best headers for my setup
i have a bone stock 90 lx im going to either get a bassani x or spin tech with dynomax ultraflo bullets with turn downs? any suggestions?
 

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Posted by Milesblown03 (Member # 27) on :
 
how much are you lookin to spend? Do you want longtubes, or shorty's? If you want to retain smog legality, go shortys, but youd probably be happiest with long tubes. What are you plans for it? Just about any brand header witll be ok, i just would stay away from MAC, most people see m to have probs with em. The FMS are ok shortys, as are the BBK's... The finish of the header all depends on how much you want to spend... some are paited=ugly, but functional.Stainless steel= better, but will still discolor after a while. Ceramic coated=nice, looks good, and retains its finish for a long time, but is also the most expensive... hope this helps
 

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Posted by 93Snyper (Member # 1058) on :
 
I went with the BBK equal-length shorties with a flowtech X and those dynomax's...seems to work fine for me, but you already knew that didnt you
 

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Posted by PeNiNsula302 (Member # 1061) on :
 

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Originally posted by Milesblown03:
how much are you lookin to spend? Do you want longtubes, or shorty's? If you want to retain smog legality, go shortys, but youd probably be happiest with long tubes. What are you plans for it? Just about any brand header witll be ok, i just would stay away from MAC, most people see m to have probs with em. The FMS are ok shortys, as are the BBK's... The finish of the header all depends on how much you want to spend... some are paited=ugly, but functional.Stainless steel= better, but will still discolor after a while. Ceramic coated=nice, looks good, and retains its finish for a long time, but is also the most expensive... hope this helps

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pretty much summed it up. I have ceramic BBK equal length shorties, bbk o/r x and flows and it was a nice gain.....but i wish i would have gotten some long tubes .

On the topic of mufflers, i know MM&FF did a thing on gains and what not but from everyones personal opinion, am i wrong with having flows on this combo? I just think i can be getting more power and a different exhaust tone from another muffler....
 

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Posted by cobraman1994 (Member # 467) on :
 
i liked my jba headers, but them and bassani are a little more pricey. but you get what you paid for in this game.
as for the flows, they are fine. everyone will compare air flow ratings and what not. but it doesnt really matter on a mildly modded car. once you get crazy with the mods, then you might want to ditch the chambered mufflers all together. and if flows are so shitty, then why does everyone and there entire family have them on there car?
 

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Posted by PeNiNsula302 (Member # 1061) on :
 
would i notice any difference (besides sound) if i got single chambers? I mean how much different of a sound would they be...like as loud as if i got turn downs on this setup? or what?
 

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Posted by cobraman1994 (Member # 467) on :
 
you will loose a little tq with one chambers. and yeah, they are loud as fuck, especailly with an off road pipe. lol, ask the50ho about that one

[ November 03, 2002, 11:42 PM: Message edited by: cobraman1994 ]
 

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Posted by sic91sleeper (Member # 779) on :
 
Get equal lengths with any off road pipe and you will like the power gains.
 

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Posted by shade-tree (Member # 298) on :
 
I don't think at the stock power level(s) that it makes much of a damn bit of difference which muffler you run, especially if you still have cats and shorty headers and stock heads and all that.
 

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Posted by rr_mustang (Member # 888) on :
 

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Originally posted by shade-tree:
I don't think at the stock power level(s) that it makes much of a damn bit of difference which muffler you run, especially if you still have cats and shorty headers and stock heads and all that.

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I agree with that as well. IMO...stock, or near stock applications do not benefit from different types of mufflers. I read somewhere that the HP difference between equal and un-equal length headers was 1hp, although the install time for equal length is quite a bit longer.
 

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Posted by sic91sleeper (Member # 779) on :
 
Most replace mufflers for the sound not performance. If we looked for just performance we would all be running Borla XR-1's or Bassani mufflers
 

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Posted by shade-tree (Member # 298) on :
 
loud=fast, duh don't you know?
 

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Posted by 90Fox (Member # 1974) on :
 
thankz but i just ordered chrome eqaul length bbk headers and im going to go with a custom built X with dynmax bullets
 

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Posted by 90Fox (Member # 1974) on :
 
do you think it would be easy to install the bbk headers myself?
 

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Posted by 90Fox (Member # 1974) on :
 
do you think it would be easy to install the bbk headers myself?
 

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Posted by st5150 (Member # 51) on :
 

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Originally posted by shade-tree:
I don't think at the stock power level(s) that it makes much of a damn bit of difference which muffler you run, especially if you still have cats and shorty headers and stock heads and all that.

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