Headers coated or uncoated

[NickPic83]

thanks for the great info and pics guys. i absolutely appreciate SW's opinion but its nice to hear the real life experiences!

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I have Kooks Headers. They are uncoated. F*** they get hot. melted some of the plastic in the fender well.

When doing Long Tubes I highly Recomend getting some spark plug wire boots that are rated @ 1500deg cels.

If I had the extra coin I would of coated the headers, but did not.

The Headers get so hot it turns the pipes gold, witch IMO looks F*****g awesome! I love my Kooks

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Good luck with evrey thing

SW is bad ass good choice

where did u get your spark plug wire sleeves?

 

[Pax Regis]

nice! plz share some pics when u get them in. i would love to see it. i am thinking of doing the black out. what cat back are u going with? cats?

o and u know the exhaust rules. VIDS or it never happened!

I'm doing the performance connect s tube mufflers with under bumper exit. I thought about lightning style but it is THE loudest. And I don't want my neighbors to hate me when I crank up at 4:30 am every weekday to go to work.

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[Sliver Raptor]

Mine aren't coated, I have them wrapped in a metal mesh to help with cold starts.

 

[Pax Regis]

This prompted me to call the muffler shop. They have been delivered. Install next Tuesday. I'm pumped up.


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[NickPic83]

Mine aren't coated, I have them wrapped in a metal mesh to help with cold starts.

Explain the the "help with cold starts" plz

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[BANE]

thanks for the great info and pics guys. i absolutely appreciate SW's opinion but its nice to hear the real life experiences!

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where did u get your spark plug wire sleeves?

I had the headers & tune all done at Livernois Motorsports in Michigan. they put the slevs on.

 

[NickPic83]

Thanks bane

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[Sliver Raptor]

Explain the the "help with cold starts" plz

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Well this is coming from my tuner shop but with the normal headers our trucks have had issues when starting cold due to the O2 sensor relocation being so far from stock. I am no expert and hardly remember the lengthy convo I had with my tuner, it was a little while ago. I am not sure to be honest.

 

[NickPic83]

O OK. Well thanks foe being honest. I think its to do with the upstream sensors not heating up as fast as they would like to

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[NickPic83]

What r u guys using for header bolts? I was thing of getting some stage 8 locking ones

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