as confused and befuddled as I am with the seller for asking $1200, I'm even more confused with anyone who's actually PAYING that!!! $500-600 I could see... but $1200?!? NUPE!!!
Forrest. .
Have you ever actually priced what it costs to have a "custom" header built lately with the current prices of steel today?. If you had you would understand that even at 1200 his price may be in the ballpark,especially for stainless. I have a gentleman who has a few turnkey SS/AA Hemi cars and he had all new sets of custom built stainless headers built for each of the cars. The bill for those sets was enough to consider it almost like the National Debt.
One thing I can say honestly is this,if you were to ever take your truck to a header man and have a set made most of the cost is for the initial setup labor hours to get it all correct to maximize HP and efficency of flow. There are 3 major header shops in my area and I can tell you that your 5-600 cost is very unrealistic as most would charge you that just for the setup to make them and then charge you for the headers. You would not see a cost reduction until more sets were built and even then it may be small reduction in cost.
Two major problems with building a "header" for our trucks exist and will cause problems. They both make building a header for our trucks very costly...
1-Lack of room-To make a header for our trucks and make it work with our chargers there is a severe shortage or room to make the header correctly. The best flowing headers have a very long collector to help maximize torque and HP. The room we have under our hoods will minimize the ability to have a proper length collector for power and efficency. A short collector kills HP and Tq and usually is used when you need to tune a race car for marginal track surfaces.
2-Flow-To engineer the proper header you will need equal tubing lengths and do it without hurting exhaust flow. To do this inside the confined space of our trucks will go against all the basic laws of building a header. One thing a good header manufacturer trys to do is not follow a bend with a bend. In order to make one for out trucks,and use it under the hood,the tubes will end up looking like a plumbing nightmare. Air doesn't like to bend around corners and flow characteristics will be hurt and power will be lost. Most guys do not want the expense of building something that will cost them power.
Look closely at Scotts dragster header and he has unlimited room. Smooth flowing bends,small straight pieces following the bends,collectors to help maximize the headers efficency and alot of headaches to try and make that fit in your truck. I'd be willing to bet he had and or has a few sets laying around he had built that didn't work the way he desired them too. For the expense to make what may look "neat" under the hood there are certainly better ways to spend ones money on to give you more bang for the buck..... Andy
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