Hey guys
Lookin into buying a nice set of header...didnt know what to look for...i was thinking about Borla but wasnt too sure...another person told me DC ceramic....and a friend of mine told me Strup.....kinda confused...dont know what to do....just that i want sumthing good...are any different in HP? i see cheap and expensive headers and i dont understand....please help me out...thanks guys..

 

Borla: Will give you mid range power... not so much up top / peak horse power... They are not equal length headers...

DC Sports: Living in Jersey, dont get ceramic coated mild steel headers... The salt on the road will rust them to bits... Get the Stainless steel... For EVERYTHING you get in your exhaust get STAINLESS STEEL and make sure you use STAINLESS STEEL HARDWARE... you will probably have to buy new hardware specially...

DC Headers are great for the money, make power across the full RPM range, equal length, and 50 STATE LEGAL!

Thats what I went with, was very happy...

good luck!

 

can u show me where u bought yours from? or a site that u recommend to me? what about Strup? tha thing is...my exhaust should be coming in soon...HKS...is tha ok? esp for NJ weather....

 

HKS is a full stainless exhaust... not 100% sure on the hardware though, but youll be fine...

I get all my parts from www.performancenissanparts.com of course

http://www.performancenissanparts.co...&Submit=Search

 

try strup headers!
they are almost exact copies of nismo headers and they are very economic to get your hands on...
you can find them on sale through our vendors (marketplace section)
you will get great gains from them (as i said)

 

So what kind of differences are to be expected between stainless steel DC headers and the normal ones ?

 

Go either Strup or Alphawerks headers

 

Mild Steel headers will work fine in New Jersey, IF they are first coated with Jet Hot. Got my Crawfords coated, and Jet Hot did a great job.

Lou

 

+1 on the Crawfords with JetHot coating.

 

What is your budget?

 

BTW, from everything I've read on the subject, the Borla is the worst power producing header you can buy, not much better than the stock manifold. I would stay away from Borla. For a low priced header go with DC or Strup, for the Best, Crawford. But you pay dearly for the best.

Pict. of my Crawfords with Jet Hot standard coating before install.

Lou

 

theres no difference in perfromance between Crawford and Strup? all tha same, right? execpt for price...what should i do? also..headers are illegal?

 

WRONG - There is a difference. Look at the construction. The Crawfords have 22" equal length tubes feeding a true collector. The inexpensive ones have unequal length shorter tubes feeding a larger merge tube that is not a true collector. Strup is a good inexpensive header, but it's not in the same league as Crawford.

Lou

 

What about TopSpeed? Any good?

 

I think that for the price Strup headers are very good... I have seen dyno's and driven in cars with the strup headers insalled and they are noticable.

 

well money is not an issue but i really want sumthing worth the money and performance...so im assuming crawford is tha way to go? i just want sumthing tha is worh every penny...

 

YES - Crawford IS the way to go. I held up buying mine for over a year, weighing the pros and cons of an inexpensive header vs. the Crawford. I have the rest of the Crawford package also (Plenum and Cats). In the end I figured, if I'm going to put in such a tough to install mod, I should get the best. IMO, I WAITED far to long. I have an '03, and the headers have been on about 8 months now, my drive home from the shop was great. We did a dyno before I left, and I peaked at 248+HP.

Lou

 

if i had the money, i'd definitely go with the crawfords.
doug ran a gb last month for headers and it looks like it went through... heres the gb thread: https://my350z.com/forum/showthread.php?t=154617

here's some dc sport headers for sale: https://my350z.com/forum/showthread.php?t=152187

 

wow.. no one has mentioned NISMO headers yet??