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Would agree with that 100% Not much point doing the TB and/or CAI with out freeing up the exhaust side first. Just with a set of Kooks LTH and a basic Lund tune I had 403 rwhp and 380 ft/lbs torque.
Later when I added the 84.5mm TB and the same PJ airaid CAI with a AED race tune... the car had a very noticable bump in HP. With out the headers, I doubt you would see much gain.
If I remember right, Accufab made the ones for Ford racing. As far as the CAI, the steeda ones are a bit of old news. I like the Airaid PJ one I had, but looks like the PMAS ones flow better. Put a PMAS on a friends S550. massive thing that looks rather ugly, but its cheaper and it gets the best numbers. make sure you get the ones that say TUNE REQUIRED unless you are just going for eye candy (not that the PMAS is much to look at)
For another car we got the cheapest headers we could find at Summit racing and then added a quality collector and welded up a xpipe. The results were pretty good for fraction of the costs of a Kooks setup.
Don’t know about the BBK and/or Pipes headers, but my Kooks ceramic coated headers still look brand new after 5/6 years and 20k miles later.
I would highly recommend a ceramic coating as my Try-Y OEM headers were rusty after 2/3yrs and 12/k miles of service.
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Is it just me? Or did those shorties seem to wake up your Boss 302 ‘U’ Code throttle response?