I went under my car to change out the diverter values and noticed that my Vektor headers had a scrap on them. It was on the driver side, I was surprised to see it knowing I had been super careful going over bumps and driveways. I also thought the rear tires would lift up the back end and not cause a scrap. I am lowered on Bilstein coilovers and have 20” Carrera S wheels. I’m not too concerned about this and still love them. Just wanted to post because I’ve never seen anyone scrap them so far.

 

Uh oh, here comes the great header debate of 2018 again!

https://rennlist.com/forums/991/1102...l#post15356419

 

Thats nothing to be concerned with. The Vektor headers hang a little lower than stock, as do the Kline.

Heres a scrape on my Kline after entering the Karrusel at Shenandoah circuit.

 

You just barely grazed it. It's not even through the ceramic

We've seen way worse, you should see what backing into a parking curb does!

 

It’s the cat you want to avoid hitting, especially when hot. The OE ceramic ones just shatter.

 

Bro! Now that’s a battle scar!

 

I was just surprised to see it. I felt like I’ve never hit or scraped on anything so it’s a surprise. When I saw it I just laughed and didn’t care about it to much. The ride’s also pretty low. The tires are very flush with the fenders so I expect scraps, just try my hardest to avoid scrapping.

 

Vektor high flow cat? Looks beefy. Paired with Soul exhaust with anti-drone tubes? So how's the sound of it all together?

Having lived the semi-low life before, my old FWD Nissan that I boosted, I scrapped the front crossmember supporting the engine and also the downpipe. And that was with double the stock spring rates. Nothing you can do with really big bumps except drive more slowly. Kinda hard to see those mid-corner sometimes when hustling though...

 

Am I mistaken in that Vektor updated the design to not hang as low and if they did, is this the newer design? Or am I completely wrong about the redesign.

 

Yeah, this is why I'll be doing Soul headers instead of Vektor headers, if I even do headers at all. SPASM + winter driving + offroading, that ground clearance matters too much for me.

 

I don't think anyone else uses as large of a cat, or such a big outlet bend as we do, hence the beefy look

We did tweak the design some to provide more ground clearance. It's funny, we've got a Porsche specialty shop nearby; mostly resto mod and classic stuff. They claim headers scraping on 911s has been going on for 50 years. The pic of the scraped Kline headers Dark_horse posted shows that even a company that's been doing this for f-a-r longer than us is still not immune. Like anything, performance oriented products are going to favor the function parts of the form, fit, function formula, because that is their inherent goal. It's not for everyone, that that's the great thing about having choices

 

I mean, it's prob not that hard to just weld one a layer of Aluminum as like a consumable band aid every couple of years LOL

 

this may reassure you :

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3vupq0

 

Drug my Klines once, they look about like @LWG . Doesn't happen often even with Eibach lowering springs and I live on basically a forest service road. To me the benefits (in sound) outweigh the drawbacks for sure

 

I wouldn’t change any parts even if I could go back in time. The sound is beyond amazing and the car sounds like how I expect a sports car to sound. I originally installed just the high flow cats and the headers but the sound only improved by 10%. My wife was very disappointed and I ordered the soul exhaust, the sound with all three are just perfect! No drone either just very aggressive! The wife and I are very satisfied now. I’ll get a sound clip up in the next few days.