headers?

[steppside69]

Hi all,
i was just wondering what eveyone oppion is on headers to stock exhuast manifolds are? I have already posted my problem with my set of headers, so i think im just going to try to find i set of original ram horns. If anyone would give me there oppion i would greatly appericiate it thanks steppside69

[Tx Firefighter]

For my money, I'll take manifolds pretty much every time. The headers should offer a slight power increase, but to me, the manifolds are much more trouble free. Manifolds are basically zero maintenance, which is, unfortunately, not the case for lots of header sets.

[neonlarry]

With the use of a setup like this:
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you can have trouble free manifolds and close to the same HP as headers. This is the setup I'm going to put in but I think I can build it myself for alot less cash.

[Longhorn Man]

Or buy quality headers and nice alluminum collector gaskets...and have trouple free headers.

[WRMZ71]

Them aluminum collector gaskets stick out a little bit and everytime I bottom out it bends that collector and then it leaks. My headers have been a pain in the butt lately. If you bend one of them flanges so much as a little bit there gonna leak forever

[Longhorn Man]

What kind of headers do you have, mine never hit the ground, and my front springs are sagging at least 3 inches. The front crossmember is lower than my headers are. (Hookers)

[WRMZ71]

I have flowtech headers. I got a 3 inch drop up front and 5 in the rear. they don't bottom out on the speedbumps all the time but seems if I don't go at em at an angle they always do. It usually hits just enough to bend the collector flanges

[Longhorn Man]

Interesting...I have bottomed out my front cross member with my old worn out springs, byt my headers have never once touched the pavement.