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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 10:40 PM
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what are better for a pretty much stock mustang ford racing headers or equal lenght headers
Old Oct 7, 2007 | 10:42 PM
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before you buy headers... you should figure out what you wanna do with the car.

that way you only have to buy stuff ONCE
Old Oct 7, 2007 | 11:09 PM
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what are better for a pretty much stock mustang ford racing headers or equal lenght headers
Like adder said it depends on what you want to dowith the car. If you want a street performer I would get equal length headers (There's no reason not to) If you are going to build a strip car, long tubes FTW.
Old Oct 7, 2007 | 11:23 PM
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Either way long tubes will ultimately make better power, so if you dont want long tubes go for the equal length shorties.
Old Oct 8, 2007 | 08:37 AM
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long tubes with a stock motor are pointless, all they would do is add a few horses at the very top of the power band, go with the shorty's and jba's are my personal favorite
Old Oct 8, 2007 | 08:56 AM
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It doesn't matter if they don't add any power like the others said if you anticipate a healthy build later on then why buy headers twice??? kinda pointless huh??? so first determine what you want to do with the car or where you want the car to be in the near future as far as performance is concerned and base you pick on that....if you don't care about gobs of power then just buy a set of shorty equal length headers
Old Oct 8, 2007 | 02:47 PM
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just go with the full length headers. you will need a new mid-pipe so just go with an off road pipe. summit has full lenght headers for like $100 and they work fine. they fit good and look good and have 1 5/8 primaries.
Old Oct 8, 2007 | 02:48 PM
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oo yeah and they have the O2 sensor spot that you drill out yourself so if u dont want them u dont have a hole in ur header.
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