American Racing Headers Review & Installation

[g8_795]

I hear ya Mike, but trust me, when you get the stage 1 cam ... at part throttle, heavy throttle, full throttle, any throttle except maybe babying it, and you get some serious noise. I'm beginning to think that it just comes with the territory, hot cam equals lots of hp equals well, noise. But it is so worth it ...

Valve train is definitely louder with cam. I have a video that is going on an hour and a half uploading to youtube. You can hear the louder valve train, and I am sure the LT's don't help. It is still stock quiet on the inside of the car.

[jbradsh1]

It is still stock quiet on the inside of the car.

At cruise, right? Mine is also stock quiet at cruise but no where else after the cam.

[-Ray-]

This is Steve's American Racing header thread. Find a good cam thread to hijack.

[Mike P]

Valve train is definitely louder with cam. I have a video that is going on an hour and a half uploading to youtube. You can hear the louder valve train, and I am sure the LT's don't help. It is still stock quiet on the inside of the car.

I just saw your "Cammed 2008 Pontiac G8" clip on You Tube, very nice! Valve train, lope, and everything doesn't sound too loud. I know that sometimes on video clips you can't capture the real world sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC1CPq0XKm4


Nice cam clip....


Edit: Just noticed you have the Livernois Stage 2 cam....


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[Tom@ARH]

Say Tom, is there any way to quiet the ARH headers, such as with a wrap or what have you?

By your sig you don't have our system. But if you have valvetrain noise due to a cam install welcome to the LSX world they all due it. Header wrap will help some maybe but it's terrible for the headers and promotes weld failure it's a race car only thing and even then I would'nt recommend it. what I have seen with my own vehicles(H&C 2000 SS 460rwhp & 2003 ZO6) the best way to calm some of the chatter is a good race oil I use redline or Joe Gibbs it's expensive but has all the additives the greenies took out. it got rid of alot of my noise not all but I was running a 600+ lift cam

[jbradsh1]

By your sig you don't have our system. But if you have valvetrain noise due to a cam install welcome to the LSX world they all due it. Header wrap will help some maybe but it's terrible for the headers and promotes weld failure it's a race car only thing and even then I would'nt recommend it. what I have seen with my own vehicles(H&C 2000 SS 460rwhp & 2003 ZO6) the best way to calm some of the chatter is a good race oil I use redline or Joe Gibbs it's expensive but has all the additives the greenies took out. it got rid of alot of my noise not all but I was running a 600+ lift cam

Good to know.