hooker header

are they any good as compared to V&H or mac? How do they look on a bike?

Nick

NickW900LTD wrote:

are they any good as compared to V&H or mac? How do they look on a bike?

Nick

There are a couple up on eBay right now if you are interested. Without concrete information the "what's the best header" question is a little costic, everybody's going to have an opinion...:blush: ...so here's mine:evil: : Vance and Hines made a good pipe back-in-the-day, but that day has come and gone, now they make HD parts and T-shirts :dry: . A Mac pipe is a basic, decent, complete pipe...no frills, but in my opinion just a step up from the V&H only b/c they don't claim to be something they are not:unsure: . I've never been a Hooker fan b/c back-in-the-day they were a budget wanna-be drag-racer / wanna-be cruiser pipe...don't know what you're looking for but I like just about every other pipe out there compare to the three that you mentioned.

If you can find an old Bassani that's the diamond in the rough. In my experience Supertrapp pipes fit as well as anything ever made. Kerker makes a decent pipe, but (my opinion) they don't fit snugly to the frame. A Yosh pipe would be hot, as would an Ontario (if you can find one).

Anyway, you went there...so there's my 2 cents.

that looks like the z cross exhaust. The stock exhaust on my 76kz900 sounds awful and restricted. Thakns for the replies.

Nick



im replying to post below, dont know hiw it got stuck here.

Post edited by: NickW900LTD, at: 2007/12/14 03:43

some body on here thought the pipes i have on my 74 z1 900 are hooker's. I dunno if they r , put the look and sound awesome. Here r some pics.

another,

10-4 on the V&H junk.I just droped $300.00 for one and would not fit the exhust ports,and you have to grind out all the extra chrome between the head pipe and meg.I will be sending them a bill for all my extra time I have in fixing there junk pipes.Pluss the chrome job is real shit!!.It will rust up in no time.

I know when I bought my Kerker 4/1 back in '80 it was only $199 and it fit perfect and sounds awesome! Still on the bike today.

Dude, I remember those days! My Supertrapp was considered not-as-good as the Kerker...Yosh pipes were considered 'race' pipes and were hard to get. I know I paid like $150 or maybe even less for my 'Trapp and it had double walled construction, the chrome never ever went south, and the thing FIT like factory.
Then in about ... what ... the mid or late 80s all headers doubled in price almost over-night and I have no idea why. :S My 'old school' buddies laugh about that 'til this day. :dry: