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any opinion on the corksport header for fc?

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Old Feb 7, 2012 | 08:11 PM
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NY any opinion on the corksport header for fc?

im about to order the corksport header and just wanted to know how it is
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Old Feb 8, 2012 | 09:32 AM
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I have not liked any of corksports products, just bad luck or crap engineering with them.
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Old Feb 8, 2012 | 03:10 PM
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I had one, its was ok. My exhaust has no cats, so the header to factory mufflers was extremely loud. I went back to a factory exhaust manifold with a cat delete pipe to now a ebay 3" catback and its still more quiet than a corksport header, cat delete, and factory mufflers combo was. Even after going with the current setup that uses the factory log, the unreliable *** dyno says there is little difference.
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Old Feb 9, 2012 | 12:52 PM
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lol wow,... if i get the cs header im going to hook it up to the stock main cat, to the cs catback. but if the stock main is too rusted ill get a magnaflow replacement
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Old Feb 10, 2012 | 05:32 AM
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I used to make headers at a shop years ago. Corksport's header looks good. To me, looks better than Racing Beat. Except for the price.
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Old Feb 10, 2012 | 10:53 AM
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i think so too, racing beat is chrome mild steel and corksport is 304 ss tig welds
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Old Feb 19, 2012 | 06:07 PM
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If I was looking for loud though, this would be the manifold to use?
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Old Feb 19, 2012 | 08:14 PM
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Yes, headers are louder than the stock manifold. But they also should perform better. If anything, they should shed a few pounds.
But if the dyno can't detect a performance gain, why put up with the noise???
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 02:52 PM
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Yes, headers are louder than the stock manifold. But they also should perform better. If anything, they should shed a few pounds.
But if the dyno can't detect a performance gain, why put up with the noise???
It's the style I'm going for in my vert - Low, Slow, & Loud. The Borla cat back, and no resonators or cats with header is what I'm looking for, so if the corksport is a reliable header, I'd purchase it. What hyeader would you personally buy other than the Corksport?
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 06:24 PM
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i got it today its nice, ill let u all know how it is.
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Old Apr 2, 2012 | 08:52 PM
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Please do I have been looking at this header as well.
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Old Apr 6, 2012 | 10:42 PM
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its not bad. im happy with it. i got some power gains out of it. here are some videos of how it sounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHn8...dx6e-2qXNFvgw=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSBwj...dx6e-2qXNFvgw=
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Old Apr 6, 2012 | 10:48 PM
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its sounds really nice with my setup, cs headers to stock main cat w/ split air pipe, to cs catback.
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