Header is shot. Pictures will be up soon. I have no idea what caused it because it killed my first runner, and part of my thrid. Pictures will be up tonight.

 

What condition are your motor mounts in? Excessive movement might have contributed. I know my mounts are shot at 60k miles.

 

Its the interior tubes of the header, not the runners cracking. I believe its due to a defect. I have very, minimal movement, plus my oem one is fine, and my dc sprts one was fine. Then its the berk that does this...

 

Awaiting pictures.

 

Didnt have the camera coord and laptop was in trunk... i have everything on me now, pics will be up within the next hour and a half. In calc 141 right now. Just took some good pics with my rebel xsi, my cameraphone was kinda crappy so i waited.

 

Sorry about the pics being rather large, here come all the pics!








and the flaking issue



THIS BY NO MEANS SAYS THAT BERK MAKES FAULTY PRODUCTS! I would run berk any day, they make great stuff, and they have fantastic customer support. Id rather have an issue with berk than another company, because they always help their customers. I eagerly await berk customer support... when they open in 4 hours... lol coast to coast call coming up

 

I guess I need to remove mine and check the exhaust gasket. Bryan is hands down the best salesman I have ever dealt with. He litterly ran to get my 3 inch exhaust on the UPS truck before it left for final pick up that day. Par none, Berk is amazing.

Bryan, any chance of you having a stock car with a dyno graph before/after a header was installed? I've had mine six months and still can't find one on a NA car.

 

Ah, thankfully just the gasket. Back in the day (yikes, over 10 years ago...) on my Nissan, I had a header crack. Thoughts as to why there was a blowout on the gasket?

 

All of the dyno's I've saw are misleading. Everyone of them is using ether the OEM exhaust and/or cat. I believe to see the real gains from this header, a big exhaust is needed.

 

Apparently yall missed the second to last picture... there is a tube inside the actual header tube. This should be flush with the flange. notice how in the other pictures its perfectly smooth and flush... cyl closes to radiator blew part of the tube out. thats what the set in ring is. and my cyl 3 started to do the same.