Make sure you get ceramic coated. I've been through 5-6 headers and the last one I bought were ceramic coated. They still look brand new, never discolored.
MAC 1-3/4" Ceramic Long Tubes w/ 3" Collector.
Wrong forum this is the push rod section . check the s197 sectionanyone using the pypes headers with OR x-pipe for a 2011+ ?
Ball and socket designs do not make any sense to me.
I looked at them all and went with Hooker, and it had nothing to do with price or prettiness.
The reason you never see advertisements for Hooker or Kooks is because their stuff works so well they do not need to advertise.
Look around at the fast non-sponsored/contingent race cars. The majority will be running custom, Hooker and the wealthy guys will have shiny Kooks.
I guess that's a matter of perspective. I drive this car as a daily in the summer months and since I consider track duty as secondary, it's more important to me to have a quiet, leak free, durable no maintenance exhaust system than it is ringing every last ounce of horsepower out of my engine....all of which would only be felt at the top of the tach anyway.sealing the collector is a seconadary issue to performance, that's where three bolt collectors have an advantage over ball and socket.