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Old Apr 28, 2005 | 06:33 PM
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Lowered & Longtube Headers

I looked throught to see if it was already covered, didn't find anything. Thinking about going with hooker long tube headers, but my car is lowered, is it a good Ideal or Not. How much more careful do will I need to be?.. Any help would be great
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Old Apr 28, 2005 | 08:59 PM
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Im not sure how much his car was lowered but he said the front was lowered a bit.......this is roc-u's cardomain page.....http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/438413/3
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Old Apr 29, 2005 | 06:43 AM
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I've got a 2 inch drop with Hooker long tubes and I HATE it. I scrape on everything. I wish I could go back to my SLP shorty's
My collector flanges are getting ground flat on the bottoms. Someday when I have the spare time I am going to cut apart my hookers and shorten/modify them as to not scrape as much.
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Old Apr 29, 2005 | 06:51 AM
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Here's a pic showing how low they are on my car.
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Old Apr 29, 2005 | 08:16 AM
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406TPI is your car lowered? stock saggy springs? new springs?



edit :

Originally posted by 406TPI
I've got a 2 inch drop
whoops.

Last edited by ckjoshz28; Apr 29, 2005 at 08:24 AM.
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Old Apr 29, 2005 | 08:19 AM
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Originally posted by ckjoshz28
406TPI is your car lowered? stock saggy springs? new springs?
I've got a 2 inch drop
New springs
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