What are the best headers?

In average, what's the gas temperature that goes through our exhaust manifolds ? According to their chart (Jet Hot), some applications are better for higher gas temps, some are better for lower gas temps.
 
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In average, what's the gas temperature that goes through our exhaust manifolds ? According to their chart (Jet Hot), some applications are better for higher gas temps, some are better for lower gas temps.
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hmmm sounds like someone got himself a set of headers.........:biggrin:
 
I still stand by Swain Tech's white lightning coating. Had my turbo hot-side, and downpipe coated by swaintech on my ex-WRX....plus they are from NY.

If you do a google search Jet Hot vs Swain Tech, most favor Swain Tech.
 
sterling silver coat has the highest thermal barrier according to jethot but is recommended for N/A vehicles with temps up to 1,300 F. (extreme sterling is 1,700F)
For F/I they recommend Jethot2000 which is good for temps up to 2,450 F. Although thermal barrier is not as good as sterling.
They quoted me $340.50 for the jet-hot coating & thats with a $33.50 discount!

I'll have to look into swain tech
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looked and found they charge $200-250 for V6 headers with the white lightning (TBC-EX) coat
This price seems a bit better but it is a ceramic.
I emailed jethot again for a quote, this time for extreme sterling.

Not that I have anything against ceramic, I know they reduce temps and look pretty but if sterling is less than jethot2000
it may be worth it. I see more city driving than i do highway and FX gets hot under the hood.
maybe I can remove the fogs and turn the holes into air scoops! ....j/k
 
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extreme sterling coat inside & out is $325 & inludes return shipping.
regular sterling coat is $275.

Anyone know the average temps we run on these headers?
both N/A or F/I?

I am also wondering how strup headers compare to stillen, any inside picrures of these two?
 
Im running Strups.....but never seen Stillens. So I cant really compare.
 
inside of stillen
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Bigturk, they still have their sale going on. Plus you get free ground shipping

someone has to teach me how to post the actual picture and not the link
 

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but no spaces between the tags & link, shows as:

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those are called image tags :smile:
 

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Damn those pics are freakin huge!
thanks for the tip john

I changed the picture since you fixed my first one

now maybe bigturk will buy the nismo headers and post inside pics of those =)
 
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HYME said:
now maybe bigturk will buy the nismo headers and post inside pics of those =)
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Not Nismo's, but I can post pics of the Topspeed headers soon...just ordered them a couple of days ago :biggrin:. I think Frank had pics of Topspeed posted already though. Next I'll contact the company Jeff suggested, and see what happens.
 
I'm a little confused. These headers (Topspeed) don't look (shape wise) anything like any of the other brands :confused:. I was assured that they do fit the FX :err:...
 
They look like they would fit how ever they do not look like equal length headers.
ideally you would want each of the tubes (all six of them) to be of equal length.
Did you already get them?
 
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The first place I went for a quote turned me away, they didn't want to do them.
Second place I went to quoted me $650.

Does anyone know what kind of temps our headers run at?
roughly?
 
They are a pain in the a$$ to install unfortunatly and I think some of these places charge more because of it. The place that quoted me $650 added an hour to it because supposedly they always add an hour extra for headers just in case it takes longer. So I asked if they would charge less if the install wouldn't take as long as they thought and the answer was no. They supossedly have an hourly rate but to me they just seemed kinda shady (no offense shadyjc)

for this reason I am going to at least try and install them myself when I get around to it.
 
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