Pacesetter is a good brand, they have alot of satisfied customers on this board. They also make a catted y-pipe to mate to them as well so you can at least make an attempt to keep the car smog legal, but as noted, just by moving the cats. from the stock locations can be grounds to fail the emissions test.

 

I've had Eibach's on 4 cars and never had a problem. I also sell them for Hyundai's and I've never had a set come back.

 

I was thinking of shorties also but those don't give me the horsepower that I want and would get from LT's. I was looking around and found the whole package for LT headers, cats, and y-pipe for $700. Is this what most of you guys bought (those who bought pacesetters)?

This is just for me to know, but if I or anyone for that matter were to change the location of their cats, that would be illegal? How would that make you fail the emissions test, shouldn't I be OK if I have cats?

 

What do you mean stock exhaust manifolds flow the same as shorties!? I have never heard of this nonsense. Of course LT's are always the best band (for your buck), but as they say, "Anything is better than stock exhaust manifolds.
Shorties i have read have been known to support 450+ rwhp.
Just makes no sense.
Daniel

 

The lt1 takes a lot better to shorties than the ls1.

 

Yeah, the manifolds on the LT1 are way different than those on the LS1 cars...Get the headers...and save for some Kooks...$$$...

--Alan

 

yeah on the 00-02 camaros they revised the manifolds and made them cast iron... what gm did to make them flow better is unknown to me, but i have heard countless times that shorties are a waste on this year of f-body.... if you want to get lts.... think about what you want to do with your car....

just a mild street car or a full on race car

mild street/strip cars= pacesetters, jet-hot
race car= kooks or qtp

 

yea they support 450+ rwhp, but then u compare the shorties to the LT and the LT will always make better numbers.

 

I agree, HEADERS! But like someone already said, you can cut 1/2 to 1 coil off your front springs and remove the isolator in the rear to get a nice drop. I cut exactly one coil off of my front springs and got 1.25" drop for reference. Let me know if you want more info on this.