I may go cheap for the time being because of money reasons since at the same time I think the truck frame is a goner in 5 or 6 years. Very unfortunate

 

I bought JBA stainless shorty headers and they started rusting mildly after a few months. When I had them out to replace the heads I sent them down for ceramic powder coating. Was very expensive but they look much nicer now.


Here's the stainless after about a year, they tarnished pretty good and began to lightly rust




And here's the same headers after powder coating, they still look the same today, no tarnish and spills don't seem to stick or leave any residue

 

Khris, they sound pretty good actually. My 5.9 has a glasspack on it and the headers gave it a deeper sounding rumble(not crackly thank god). I do still have the original cat on it tho

 

If that was directed at me ....None

 

Go ceramic. I've sent multiple headers and exhaust parts to Jet Hot for ceramic coating. Worth every penny. And it's going to last

 

Thank you.

 

I just installed a set of JBA stainless shortys on Sunday and I gotta say, I love em. Whole new truck, regained low end lost from M1. Have more power throughout the whole powerband now not just mid-high end. Sound didn't change much though. I don't give a damn about how they look, I'll be turning 20 in November, live in Iowa where salt in the winter is like corn in the summer...everywhere, and was able to install them in my garage on a weekend with good results. No buying a new y-pipe or fabbing duals or anything, only paid $100 because I found em on craigslist, and they're better overall quality than even coated Pacesetter/Summit. Pacesetter you have a 50/50 chance of getting a good set or getting a set with bent pipes or cracked welds or burred edges, etc. Have a buddy that even had a primary pipe blowout thx to crap metal.

 

Reviving this thread a little.

I want LTs though but too much conflicting info on fitment. Though i don't lime pacesetter as a company I'm willing to deal with their quality control in order to have LTs lol. Spillage I've seen your photos from when you first put em on, do yout still have hitting issues or did you figure out a way around that?

To those others running the LTs and y pipe, anyway you can get pics?

 

I thought that it was an issue with the front tailshaft balance weight hitting the collector under higher torque conditions (flexing the engine mounts), but after putting a camera under there, I found it wasn't.
I still don't have the noise isolated, but I know it is not the headers.
If your not 4x4, your fine... 4x4 is tight, but not certainly nothing that is a deal breaker.

 

Thx for the quick reply man! I'm thinking the plan if i get em is make a shop do it lol. I am 4x4 which is why I'm worried. Also don't want duals, would rather just have full 3". You're positive the driveshaft isn't hitting the pipe though?