I have decided to take all of yours advice and sell the shortys (never installed) and go with long tubes. What LTs should a go with. What kind of gains am I looking at. I have found some ARH, are they any good?

 

ARH are very good quality stainless headers. Many don't get them though simply because of the price.

 

ARH for the win!

 

best headers we have installed them on 2 cars.. an 09 denali and an 08 sierra.. sound quality and performance all in one i highly recommend it.. the price maybe a bit more than the others... but its worth it

 

ARH headers fit perfect, don't leak, don't rust, have merge collectors, ball mounts for the "Y" pipe (it won't leak either), and bolt directly to your stock exhaust or cat back. Yes, they cost a bit more than some, but it is worth it. When you sell the truck, you can take them off and sell them in the classified section and get 70-80% return on investment (ROI). The sound is nice too! The only thing I would recommend is to use the OE gasket instead of what is shipped with the headers. A lot of guys here have used GM studs and nuts due to breakage of the OE manifold bolts. Good luck!

 

After looking at pictures of these on the ARH site, the headers for our trucks look like mids

 

Yea, they look a little longer than a mid but a little shorter than an LT, although if you notice the way the primaries are wrapped around, there's a lot of pipe there, and they look to be very close to equal length

 

The ARH's are just as long as any of the other sets of headers I've owned.

 

Sounds a lot like my impression of Dynatech. Like charcoal03silvy said, ARH look to be a great quality set of S/S headers. I also agree, many don't get them simply because of price, just like Dynas & SW.
I'd stick w/. any of those 3.

 

I'm very happy with my StainlessWorks...wish that I had gotten 3" collectors, but I need the catted y-pipe set up to pass NJ visual inspection. The quality is top notch though, and I definitely felt a gain over the shorties that I had before