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Accidently bought and ordered this morning a hks dual exhaust because i thought it was cracked lol. After ordering i was thinking something was wrong and double checked. Turns out my headers were cracked where it connects to the catalytic converter.
I know aftermarket headers dont do nothing for our car really...
and cant weld it since its stainless steel.
What are my options?
Buy a aftermarket header or used oem?
Its a dc sports header bought by previous owner. If i bought and installed oem header with the hks installed would i need a tune? Idk if the previous owner tuned it with the aftermarket headers.
Wasnt sure i did research and people say that the car starts to run leaner with bolt ons. So i will be fine with just installing oem headers and aftermarket exhaust without a tune?
What model year is the car? Pretty doubtful that it’s tuned at all from the prior owner. A new header doesn’t need a tune. Pretty sure that dc header was shown to lose power way back. You don’t see many people run it. An affordable aftermarket header is the ppm header which is basically a J’s copy. Or just find a used oem header. If you can find one local it should be fairly cheap.
if the DC header makes the same power or has negligible difference, the biggest benefit to it is that it's 15-20lb (guesstimate) lighter than stock. i just sold one a few weeks ago because i'm in califonria and the dc header i had predated the carb exemption. i would personally go with a used OEM one.
Cracked header
