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Originally Posted by BlaqWhole

I don't need to know your history. There is no significant difference between any headers that will make any long lasting or drastic impact on a vehicle. People made these same comments about cheap vs expensive header years ago. People have been making these same comments for decades. Time and time again it has been proven to be untrue. People come on here talking about PhDs in this and decades working in this lab with metals or whatever the hell they do. And for all the fluff, it still remains that their will not be any significant difference in any of these headers. I had cheapo OBK LTs that I bought off Ebay for less than $600 on my 2010 Camaro SS. After 4 years and about 40K miles I traded the car in, removed the headers, sold them for $300, and installed them on the buyers Camaro in 3 hours and he drove off with them. When I removed them and inspected them, they were sound, solid, intact, and had no signs of damage. They were just worn. I could have paired them up next to Kooks headers with the same miles on them and aside from the emblems you would not be able to tell the difference between the two. There is no major difference with any of these headers I don't care if they're American, Chinese, whatever. They're all pretty much the same.

So I think we all have anecdotal evidence that people have great experience with OBX , TSP, etc. I to installed pacesetter headers on a previous vehicle, and OBX exhaust on another, and the build was solid, and I had zero complaints about the quality.

BUT, you can't ignore people's honest accounts of situations like this:

https://ls1tech.com/forums/cadillac-...st-review.html

I think we can all agree that the build quality on these is subpar , compared to Kooks and ARH. I think what most are saying is, it is unlikely ARH or Kooks would EVER allow headers that look like these to leave their facility and go to a warehouse. You cant say the same for some of the other companies like OBX.