OBX s13 KA24DE headers?

[a_ahmed]

Both claim to be the same thing, and yet, the bottom one looks better put together or am I wrong? Both are stated as OBX... one is brand new the other is 6 months old. The 6 month old one is the bottom one, but if you look at the joints, welds, where the pieces connect they are put together differently....

Opinions?

[heyyouduh]

hard to tell from the pictures. but if they were of different qualities, I wouldn't be surprised, I'm guessing quality control isn't very good... I saw one in person, not bad for the price, I'd run it if I didn't care about my hearing.

[a_ahmed]

well if you observe the welds and where the pipes are split and joined you'll notice the differences... I have a trained eye for this stuff... otherwise im just tired and imagining things but they are not the same... you got a point about them not having quality control though...

I don't want to make a jump on it then though...

Noise wise.. I doubt it'll be that much of an increase... i will run 2.5" piping with 22" resonator and muffler... high flow catco cat... so combined with this i dunno... The second picture one got sold though... no longer available, while the other guy's shiny new one which looks inferior is still available,,,

[turtl631]

It'll be really loud probably. I don't think a header is worth it for a street car. The second one is a different color b/c SS discolors once it gets hot.

[heyyouduh]

I had a hotshot, then sold it. The noise isn't bad on short drives, but after driving hours to track events, then going WOT on a track the whole day, then driving back home for another few ours made me decide the extra 4-5whp wasn't worth the headaches it was giving me.

[a_ahmed]

haha, okay then ill pass.. meh...

[heyyouduh]

I wouldn't let quality of the header turn me away, given price is reasonable. Like I said the quality wasn't bad, iirc the iteration of the OBX header that I saw had a little bit of trouble going on the car, but nothing that couldn't be solved easily. But like turtl said, I don't think it's worth it, hurts your ears.

[a_ahmed]

Yeah if she was a trailer queen i wouldnt mind... ill still have to drive to the track.... and tracks are no where near to me... so meh... yet so tempting at the same time hehe...

[murda-c]

An exhaust tip silencer goes a long way for long highway drives.