ita a fact, mods are not cheap on this car

 

Would be interesting to see a dyno on a stock car, although I have a feeling that the header would be similar to the DC sports one.

When something is cheap, people automatically assume it's cheap. If the unit sold for 700 dollars, I'm sure people would actually take it seriously. Since it is so cheap though, everyone is just going to assume it sucks and will not try it.

 

i bet you could find it at pepboys

 

Am not sure about the quality. I cannot tell exactly, but from the picture I see the weldings are not so good. Maybe the photo is not the best available. I would like to see the welds form a closer view. Between us, I wouldnt bet on it... and I dont see any dyno plot

 

^ i was thinking the same thing. the welds look pretty sloppy on that header.

 

Just curious as to what you think is sloppy about the welds. Maybe I cant see what you see. Can you be more specific?

 

They look so, but perhaps is the quality of the picture. I mean... I dont want to kill a product with my opinion of course.

 

I understand that this header might be cheap at cost but maybe not at quality.

It makes me laugh all the people saying they wouldn't buy this header because OBX doesn't have a dyno sheet for the testing. I have never seen any dyno sheet on the website from spoon, mugen, J's racing, amuse, 5 zigen or even Toda. why are those header then deemed better?

My.02 don't want to start a war here just asking the questoin everybody is thinking....

 

Because those companies have had their headers out for a long time, enough time to buy them and have them dyno tested and have people talking about it on this forum and posting their dyno plots. Just look at the Rick's header. It "came out of nowhere" but they showed that they made gains (6 hp, 4 torque) in the midrange, and did not claim ridiculous numbers like (this xxx product will give you an extra 10-25% in power!!!) blah blah blah.

Since the OBX is a "bad brand name" due to other parts they've made, they actually have something to prove. If they did a series of 5 dynos with stock cars, all showing an increase of power somewhere in the power range, then they would sell their header. Since they provide no backup and have no test market, people will be skeptical due to all of the parts out there for our cars that aren't very good.

I think I covered that pretty well

 

It looks like they copied another manufacturer's header and threw it together. THe welds do look sloppy compared to what you see from comptech, mugen, toda, etc. The header may work fine. Typically the addage "you get what you pay for" is relative to what you're buying. Would you buy OBX brake rotors too? Hmmm....makes me wonder about the header now....

Most Good aftermarket companies spend hundreds of hours in R&D to make a good high quality product that will perform as the client expects it too. Add in different philosophys of tuning and the market differentiates itself a little. "You get what you pay for" - a product from a company that invested the time to give you a great well made product that performs or a product that someone copied to a degree and sells it only because the next closest thing costs 3X more?