Recently, I've been looking to put either short tube or long tube headers on my RS. I've been going more towards short tubes simply because of the fact I just bought a brand new cat converter and don't want to take it off abd have that to go to waste. However while reading about headers, I read that they can cause either the cat or O2 sensor to fail early. I wanted to know from you guys is this true if I were to run the short tubes and if it is true, what can be done to help prevent that

 

you have to use a heated O2 sensor with headers. and they wont affect your new cat either

 

It's more of a question of performance than it is your cat, it'll be fine. And the o2 will be okay too. But short/ long headers make different hp/torq at different rpm. Look into that and decide.

 

Ok thanks. Just needed to be safe lol. And I've read how the short gives me hp/torque at lower rpms and long tubes would give me hp/torque at higher rpms

 

I understand. Good luck! Slip and kooks headers fit really well as far as long headers, and dougs fit well too(what I have) they're about 300-500$ cheaper. Most shorty headers will fit fine though.