Free Chinese Headers....

[einstein57]

Honestly...

And I hate to admit this...

Other than the lack of clean up inside...

These aren't that bad of quality.



It was a Friday...

I got bored...

"Idle hands" being the devils workshop and all....

Well if your ever bored i have a spare 885 you can port for my franken motor. Scheduled completion is 2003 or my current engine blows. Which ever comes first.

[nando]

I keep hearing that (quality headers not sealing right) but I've never seen it. even my IE shorties seal really well..

[DCColegrove]

well aside from half of them not fitting right and leaking at the head, and the shiney "chrome" coating coming off after 6 months. :p

plus these are a slightly different design.

Yeah... There was that...

I've had all these issues (except for the shiny shit... that's stupid) with top of the line headers as well.

(I don't think I had a fit problem with these though... I think that was someone else)

EDIT: Oh my god... I'm defending the Chinese... I'll shut up now...

[der affe]

comparing the 2 by the pictures, the difference seems to be mainly tht they fit tighter to the block for clearence with the right hand drive.

the "H" pipe looks a little different/better too.

and they use a 1 piece flange as opposed to the 6 individual ones

[nando]

well aside from half of them not fitting right and leaking at the head, and the shiney "chrome" coating coming off after 6 months. :p

plus these are a slightly different design.

[DCColegrove]

believe me I thought about it but I have gone with "cheap" headers before, so I know I would never be satisfied.

Honestly...

And I hate to admit this...

Other than the lack of clean up inside...

These aren't that bad of quality.

just wondering why you had the engine out?

It was a Friday...

I got bored...

"Idle hands" being the devils workshop and all....

[nando]

I was quite good at welding waaay back in high school but i haven't welded anything but my strut mounts since then, and they aren't very pretty. However I'll be using a mig at least instead of the stick welder I tried to use on my strut mounts..

[der affe]

damit! if you were here in AZ I would teach you!
too bad, i have built a bunch of headers for VW's and V-8 cars.
yea for wasted talent.

i have actually been thinking about doing just that after i get mine here....unfortunately the final cost if you were going to sell them is WAY out of the grasp of most of R3v though.

if you can do it yourself, you are well under the $400 mark.

[nando]

well I'm not very handy with a welder, so I have to buy them. Welding up my exhaust is going to be challenging enough. :p

[der affe]

u know, if you are handy with a welder (tig pref). headers are not that hard to make!

you can buy donuts in what ever dia. you need, then chop saw and copy the china knock off. they copied a good design. you are just copying a copy then. you can make them out of a better quality metal. the biggest hurdle is the flanges at the head. all you would need to do is take stock cast iron manifolds to a machine shop and have them copied (the flange).


you could make them actually better by using a high quality collector too.
McCabe Racing

1600 W Frontier Rd
Chino Valley, AZ 86323 Map
i have used his collectors before, really nice!

there is also
Belanger Headers

401 W Lone Cactus Dr Ste 2
Phoenix, AZ 85027 Map

• super quality there too, very happy with his quality too.

• just a though, it is really not that hard to do

[nando]

believe me I thought about it but I have gone with "cheap" headers before, so I know I would never be satisfied.

[der affe]

meh, i still think i'll chance it with the china ones for $160ish shipped to my door. BUT i am only going to be using them for a year or so until i ge the M-30 swap done.
speaking of that, i am going to check to see if the make an M-30 set!

[nando]

interesting, but how much is shipping going to be to the us?

it works out to be $400 shipped at the exchange rates from last friday.

[der affe]

interesting, but how much is shipping going to be to the us?

[BMWLA]

I have taken them on a few extended drives and so far they are holding up... No cracking no burn through... The chrome-ish stuff is hammered though.


I have had the engine out since I last reported...

And I cleaned out the welding leftovers and marbles...

I said I wasn't going to but I couldn't help myself.

Still... I'm no fan of sending dollars to China.

just wondering why you had the engine out?