The weight with wrap and painted is 14.5lbs on bathroom scale, same as Mugen with Mugen heat shield.

The new wrap with fresh paint smokes at first, so I am taking it easy on the throttle.

The header comes close to the engine mount. I don't remember if the other headers do this or not. They might. I don't think it's any big deal, especially since the header is wrapped.

Exhaust note is smoother.

I can't dyno today; very busy, but UL is doing dynos today.

More impressions to follow.

Thanks to R&D Motorsports and Dave who arranged this group buy!

 

my friend has the toda header on his s2k and its badass...at first when he got it..you could feel the powerdip before vtec would kick in..but its dissapeared recently, i guess the header has to "break in" or something..but the power delivery is much more linear and smooth with no sudden power spikes

 

Do you have a Mugen header for sale?

Have you always wrapped your headers? I tried it only once, and it caused my welds to crack from the heat. I will never do it again.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gernby
[B]Do you have a Mugen header for sale?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Prolene
[B] I have never wrapped any exhaust component before.

 

Al, good stuff! Can't wait to see your dyno results. Too bad you couldn't make it out today though. I definitely need to get the Mugen fanswitch and thermostat and maybe the Hondata gasket as my car was getting too much heatsoak according to Shawn.

I'm surprised the Toda header doesn't come with a heatshield though. Are you going to fabricate one or does Toda have plans to make them in the future?

Sounds like Toda cams are in order for your next mod

 

Headers need to be broken in ?

 

I think thats it is not the header itself but the ECU needs to adjust to the improved exaust flow. Usually when somthing changes in the intake or exaust flow the computer knows it and adjusts things to work more effecently with the new improved flow.
If i am wrong somebody please correct me

 

I think it is the driver that has to "break in". The ECU should be reset after such changes, but it doesn't have that much of a learning curve.

 

usually its a good idea to reset the ECU after every performance mod you install. if you don't the car will relearn the new setings over a specific period of time and will adapt to the increase air/exhaust flow(depends on what mod you got). maybe that is why the car felt sluggish when you first installed it, but after a while the ECU has adapted successfully..giving you a more linear and smoother power curve.