After waiting nearly 6 weeks, they've finally arrived. SLP's 1 3/4 stainless headers/ypipe.

I kept getting conflicting stories from both LM performace and SLP as to why it was taking so long, but they're finally here so I'm happy the ordeal is finally over.


This will be my first major mod on my '88 L98 Iroc-Z. I tried to promis myself I would leave this car stock and just use it as a daily driver but the "performance bug" has bit me yet again.

The Firebird won't be finished until next summer, so in the mean time, I'll mess around with the Z.


I decided to go with the SLP's mainly because of the fact that they're stainless steel and with this city's tendancy to dump 100's of tonnes of salt onto the roads every winter, I wanted a set of headers and ypipe that would not rust out. This was the biggest deciding factor as this is a year-round car and I do drive it during the winter. No rust = No worries


Opening up the box, everything was packaged really nice with everthing seperated by giant polyeurthane foam "pillows" which makes it virtually impossible for these to get damaged during shipment. Nice.

After inspecting evething up close, I'm happy to say that I'm impressed with the quality of these headers. Both in the ceramic coating itself, aswell as the craftsmanship of the header's construction. All the welds are absolutely perfect. Looking inside the collectors, you can see just how smooth and clean everything is.

Some of the cheaper headers I've seen, usually have pretty sloppy welds. "Sloppy", meaning if you look on the inside of the collector for example or where the Air/tubes are placed, you can see all the excess material from the welding process, "getting in the way" as I like to say.

Not so with these SLP's.

I ordered them without pervisions for air, as I wanted to clean up the engine compartment as much as possible. Getting rid of all the air hook-ups will definetely clean things up a lot.

The ypipe, is also a great piece though unlike the headers, it's not ceramic coated. All is well though, as I like the "natural" finish stainless steal.

I'll probably put these on some time next week if I have the time. May aswell buy new O2 sensors while I'm at it.

Hopefully, the install goes well and I won't have too many problems with the ypipe's fitment, as the SLP's ypipe seem to have reputation for fitment issues.

I'll update again when I have them installed.


Enjoy.

Here are some pic's of the ypipe....

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and here are the headers...

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Glad you got some decent headers. Unfortunately mine did not look so good. The welds inside the headers looked awful and definately obstructed airflow.

I'm sure you will like yours though.