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Old Dec 22, 2004 | 03:05 PM
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Originally posted by PhoenixINX
We thought about adding a merge collector...

Two things complicated it.

- Room to both our LONG tubes, and keeping the cats in the stock position.

- Cost vs. Performance

Merge collectors are not an inexpensive animal, as they in themselves are a work of art! Very few people in the country can make a genuinely nice piece that we would be interested in using.
Get a band saw... you can then build the perfect merge collector. Its very simple actually and deserves far less credit then it gets. Burns stainless ones are only complicated because they use mandrel bent pipes to put all the runners pointing in the same direction... however for a tri-merge that would fit perfectly in based on what im seeing in your pics... just some straight tube cut on a band saw with a sliding jig that holds the pipe angle consistent would be all you need. We have build them before for one-off turbo manifolds, and have a sliding jig for it. Actually if you cared to send me a cutoff of the pipe your using I would gladly run it thru my jig free of cost and return it to you so you can see what I am talking about.

But your headers seem to work great anyway, so of course i wouldnt say you should change anything about them. I was just talking about manufacturing of merge collectors.

Keep up the good work.

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Old Dec 22, 2004 | 03:27 PM
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correct me if i'm wrong, but i imagine that a stroked engine would get even better gains from headers? more exhaust, right?

thanks
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