MIKE 38sc said:
there are several other things that go into a good and sound design for headers and this is where the available headers[the ones you can buy right now] DROP the ball! When headers are designed properly you WILL NOT have a loss of low end power, or a loss of power ANYWHERE in the rev range of the motor. When designed properly you will have noticable increases throughout the rev range. I don't understand why people can not get that through there heads. When designed properly and built properly headers will give your engine the MOST HP to $$ kick of ANY other bolt on part! The problem is that NONE of the headers being sold for this car are designed right to begin with! So you WILL have loss's of performance in some area's of the rev range and there will be SMALL gains in some small area's of the rev range, but it DOES NOT have to be this way! [/B]
Such a long reply but yet no examples.
I've checked out the medium-length Kooks headers. They are
expensive and they look nice, but those 2 things dont matter to
me. What matters is their design. You don't like their design.
Fair enough. But tell me why. Specifically (i.e. the start of the
primaries is off, the bends are too sharp, the bends lose
diameter (non mandrel), the primaries are too short, the
collector doesnt come to a point, etc, etc). Give me SOMETHING
to chew on here, throw me a bone
Gaston
PS-George, answers those Qs, i'm curious