what are the best headers for my truck? or what are you guys running in your trucks? just an inquiring question, my friend broke his headers on his tundra and it made me look into headers when i was bored. but ive got no real knowledge about them. wanna help me out guys?

 

The best for your truck and for power increase is long-tube headers!
It's not worth the time,money & trouble to put the short headers on and they wont help your power any.

Phil

 

+1^ long tubes all the way. I have dynatechs

 

longtubes all the way!!

I have pacesetters! had to sets of shortys on before that they dont help ya out at ALL!
Longtubes are the way to go! if your going to do that throw a set of highflow cats as well!! then u get the best possible!

just what i did.. i dont know if its the best

dave

 

sweet so any brands i should know that are i guess the leading manufacturers?

 

Dynatech

 

dynatechs, OBX, Kooks, Pacesetter seem to be the popular ones on this forum

 

has anyone ever blown the manifold gasket because of the headers? my uncle works at mesa mufflers here in AZ and he told me that its a waste of time to get them because you will always be replacing them left and right.

is this true?

 

Kinda true,,,but pretty much old school attitude.
If they are not installed properly(not tight enough),with the proper hardware (locking header bolts) you could have a problem.
Same thing I was told 20 years ago..lol
Back then you had to keep up with tightening them every so often.
But with a good set of bolts ,,you should never have a problem!
http://www.lightningforceperformance...roducts_id=403
Ya might find them cheaper on Summit's site.

Phil

 

so by buying those bolts you definitely wont blow them? or is there still a chance.
cuz i mean hes kinda in the know cuz hes been there for a whileeeeeeeee.
i just wanna know before i think about doing it because he said its just a repeting process that robs your wallet for $$.

 

buy a GOOD set of gaskets, most of the time the ones in the kit are garbage and thats why they blow. I went with SCE copper gaskets and they are doing the job well. OEM are also very good gaskets as well. The key is don't cheap out if you don't want headeraches.

 

just buy the oem manifold gaskets, they will never blow. i've had the same set for 50k miles and they dont leak at all.

 

I used the OEM gaskets also!

Phil