Thread: SR20VE 4-2-1 "budget" header

Yah, that might not be a bad idea. I may take a break for a while.

Yes. Of course. I apologize.

I don't know Charles' history but I'm catching up quick. I can see what you're talking about and admittedly I'm becoming part of the problem, not the solution.
I'm glad to see Charles here. I'm leaving now with my foot shoved well into my mouth.

If this is made by somebody not from China I say everyone needs to jump on, price be damned.

Its time we make our principles a little thicker than our thriftiness and start refusing to buy cheap Chinese bootleg BS.

Quit buying it a Starbucks, quit buying it in Target's $1 bin, and quit buying it on eBay.

Chinese manufacturers forgo quality, overhead, and all reasonable business logistics to aggressively corner markets. Period.

No need to apologize, in no way did I feel offended.

Back to Snickers budget 421 header, I feel it's a winner. It's price right, which is cheaper than the Fuji and has a better collector design.

Good luck with the testing.

not always, but it is quite common. Really depends if it is a outsourced company the principals of that company or an actual Chinese company. However the lack of copy right laws in those countries does indeed make things difficult, last case study i looked at ford looses over 1 billion in Chinese "genuine ford parts"

I have also seen footage of oh&s that would scare just about anyone.

However if a part was made in china i wouldn't cross it off the list, just be very skeptical, would need to know where the r&d was done, the quality control implemented etc.

eg. eagle and brain crower have a lot of parts made in china.

Most chinese parts are just copied designs with corners cut to make manufacturing easier with no engineering and low quality control

some gats issues..hahahahaha

a tax season group buy is perfect
although I'd need a stainless steel one, because I live in rustlyvania but I don't mind paying more

Ss = $$$$$

to build a full stainless steel one, you are looking at $900-1000 easy just from the higher cost of materials. You can not make good formed collectors out of stainlesd so you would hav to go full merge collectors. ur better off just getting it coated.

-Ted

i can build this in full stainless for another $400 and that is a steal and a one off price and willnot be part of any group buy. most of the increase is materials like Ted said but the SS one must be completely tig welded which takes time.

When do you plan on building one with the other collectors? I'd be happy to purchase it and dyno against my 2.5" ssac as soon as you are finished with it. The only downside is that I'm running 2.5" exhaust. Also, it looks like the flange should bolt up to the stock cat, does it?