DIY Header?
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DIY Header?
Is is worth it to try to build your own header for a 22RE? I'm not in an air quality attainment area so no smog testing. I'm thinking the cost of the individual pieces of tubing, cones, y's... will add up to getting close to a LCE, or maybe halfway there?, but then you might as well just spend the money. I was thinking mild steel with a high temp paint. I think it would be sort of fun, but for the cost, not sure it's worth the effort.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
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I was thinking mild with mandrel bent stuff off the shelf and mig with a high temp paint. I could do mig stainless, but without a decent tube bender, I'm stuck buying the bends and and I suspect it would be close to the same price as a complete LCE header.
Can you get much of a performance upgrade with just a larger downpipe and decent Y pipe? Seems to me the smallest orifice along the line will be your limiting factor in flow. I wonder about the cat with all the talk of a large tube header and open magnaflow-type exhaust, doesn't the cat limit everything? or in the case of the stock exhaust mani, seems like it would also limit your flow.
Can you get much of a performance upgrade with just a larger downpipe and decent Y pipe? Seems to me the smallest orifice along the line will be your limiting factor in flow. I wonder about the cat with all the talk of a large tube header and open magnaflow-type exhaust, doesn't the cat limit everything? or in the case of the stock exhaust mani, seems like it would also limit your flow.
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