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Thread: the stainless 16v header build

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    the header is all finished and just working on the secondary's






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    beautiful piece of exhaust spaghetti mate
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    they are gonna rip man... thin stainless generates heaps of heat though.. its not a turbo so doesn't matter as much. good work, looks heaps different than other exhausts ive seen, 2 flex joins with the 2 long pipes.

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    That's awesome!
    If I didn't have turbo plans, then that's the way I'd definitely like to go!

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    Nice work mate. They reckon that headers are not as hard as they look, but I've never suscribed to that theory
    Very long secondaries - much longer than I've seen before.
    Is this your own design, or is it a published spec?

    About from the steering rack (as Loon mentioned), the other thing to watch
    is that the downpipes don't get too close to the inner CV boot - too much heat

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    [QUOTE=blackgti1.8]Nice work mate. They reckon that headers are not as hard as they look, but I've never suscribed to that theory
    Very long secondaries - much longer than I've seen before.
    Is this your own design, or is it a published spec?

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    yer they aint that easy, in theory they are but anyone who has had experience with metal warping and stretching and distorting through welding will know that lining up so many cuts and angles in a small area is quite hard.

    the design was inspired by all the headers i could find out there it takes areas from a lot of systems, the long secondaries are similar to track style extractors and a little like the supersprint, i wanted to get some flex in ther so there was no chance of cracking.

    it is going straight into a 2 1/2 in system with a backbox, does anyone have any reccomendations for a stainless backbox

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    Measure the size of the space available for the backbox, space is very tight on a Mk1. Just got to that stage with my project and couldn`t use the original box I wanted.

    Headers look great man. I love the twin flexpipe
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    Awesome work!! They'll sound rather fine

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    Just a question.....You could have gone 4 into 1 but went for 4 into 2 into 1. Why?
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