this question may already be out there but i am asking it anyways....

what is the difference between shorty headers and long tube headers?
is there a power difference between the two?

 

Shorty headers are about the same dimensions as the cast Chevy manifolds. They offer very little if any performance increase.

Long tubes are headers that span from the head all the way down past the bell housing area where they merge into a collector. These are item that yields significant performance increases because the flow better than stock and offer more scavenging.

There are also Mid-length headers that fall between the two (my old set ended up right near the "ears" on the bell housing). Generally speaking, mids are a significant increase over stock, but not as much as LTs.

 

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Yes shorties will gain you nothing really, lts is the way to go, will help you out more in the long run if you keep the upgrading going. Lts help to scavenge the exhaust from the heads, better then shorts do.. SO bottom line is get the LT's

John

 

Make sure u spend the extra $ and get the ceramic...The LTs give u better low end TQ. Tuned exhaust guys even play around with collector length - NASCAR guys especially for track length, turn radius...R/

 

and if you buy them used check for 4 wheel drive or two wheel drive i bought a set that were for a 2 wheel drive and had to through them away and buy new ones

 

Long Tubes are defineately the way to go but they will require you to have a custom section of pipe made for your cats, or you can go with the offroad Y pipe and get rid of them all together... it sounds real nice Without them BTW.

 

sprayed8: i have had all cutome exaust work done because i have headers back true duels.

once again thank every one for the input.

 

Awesome, must sound pretty mean with the true duals. you're gonna hafta cut and rework the exheast though cuz the longtubes end in a very different location but i'm sure you can work it out.

How do you like the Dune Grapplers, not many guys seem to have them, i love mine.

Also, i would ditch the superchips, its really holding you back, youre not gonna see all the potential out of the truck with that conservative tune, especially with cam coming.

 

yea it is loud. that ant a problem i have a friend that does exaust.

yea I love my Dune Grapplers, as long as i dont do burn outs at the track. lol. then thay go fast.

I have just took it off of the truck and i have a PCM that i have bought off of hear it will be at my house on tuesday, cant wait cause all the talk about custom tune that everyone talks about.

the only thing is that i have to have re-tuned for the 35s....