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Old 08-09-2009, 10:55 AM
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Exhaust Manifold: Best option for FI

Starting a new project car; the last owner had put an OBX header on, which I'm not very impressed with. I could put the stock header back on, but since I want to show and 'cross the car, I wanted a hi flow header that looks good and is durable. The motor will be supercharged once I'm satisfied with the exhaust, ignition, and fuel systems.

Right now, the ExoticSpeed header is at the top of my list; it's mandrel bent and has a common collector for the 02 sensor, unlike the OBX and Re-Amemiya headers. Any recommendations and/or experiences are appreciated.
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How about this one? Ceramic coated and has a common collector for the 02 sensor.

Can be found at http://www.dnamotorsport.com.au/
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How come you don't mention Racing Beat?
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Racing Beat,,,,,
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best Fi manifold is the one that allows you to mount a turbo on it heh
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Zen has the Pettit SC,,, I guess he could do a TC-SC combo,,, that would be best,,,
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Is there something wrong with the racong beat one ?
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The reason I recommend the DNA motorsports headers is that it was designed to be used with a supercharger, plus it is the only ceramic coated header available. I cnat remember the cost but I dont think it is too much more then the racing beat header.
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Originally Posted by Rotr8
Racing Beat,,,,,
Good info on the RB; didn't know about it. Do you run one of these Rotr8?

I did check out the DNA header, ceramic coating is nice. The weld look a little spotty in the pic, will have to dig for the price/availability since it comes from Oz. OK, so ExoticSpeed, RB, DNA, and anything that mounts a turbo, got it. So far so good.

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Actually the best manifold would be one that collects past the cat like the one Eric Meyer was talking about . Unfortunately no one sells one ..................yet .
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someone does... the people that make the parts for eric meyer....

http://www.petesspeedandfab.com/Home.html

they will sell you race headers.
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I want an exhaust that provides about 30 inches of vacuum. LOL.
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Damn nice find Kersh,,, I wonder how much that header would cost,,,
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Originally Posted by kersh4w
someone does... the people that make the parts for eric meyer....

http://www.petesspeedandfab.com/Home.html

they will sell you race headers.
the link shows street headers - if they also sell race headers they would be the ones to go for ....
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"..We are a full service shop specifalizing ......"

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hey man thier fabricators not english majors,,, but funny though,,,
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Originally Posted by Rotr8
hey man thier fabricators not english majors,,, but funny though,,,


OK, enough spelling ****. Just sayin'.
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i didnt really find them. eric meyer passed me a long their site. :P

for their race headers, you'll have to jump through some hoops. apparently eric meyer owns part of the design, so who knows how he'll part with that. i asked.
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/\ i'll bet if you just took the street header design and just moved the collection point downstream a foot you would get damn near the same result .....
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