Made in China BBC headers any good?
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Made in China BBC headers any good?
So I was looking on eBay for headers for my 33 outlaw rebuild and I found these. How bad can they possibly be and at 350/set can you really go wrong? Even if they only last one year you can run a new set each year for 5 years and still save money over the fancy high priced headers I keep seeing everywhere. There must be some sort of justifiable reason why marine headers cost 2k/set+ however. Can anyone explain how/why the Stellings or CMI's cost so much more than these Chinese versions?
Has anyone ever used these before?:
Has anyone ever used these before?:
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Have we really not past the point of being sucked in to 'too be good to be true prices' from China ?
How's Lumber Liquidators doing lately?
And BTW: those photos are of water injected headers - not water jacketed headers. Huge difference in manufacturing ! You need water jacketed headers.
How's Lumber Liquidators doing lately?
And BTW: those photos are of water injected headers - not water jacketed headers. Huge difference in manufacturing ! You need water jacketed headers.
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a good set of manifolds are said to produce more h.p than headers/that's debatable at least to me . I love the look of a stainless header, but I went w / the used stainless marine manifolds on a procharged 509, dry to the end, looked a little beat up I paid 500.00 w/ risers,+150 for a 2 tome paint job. and I doubt they will ever crack. and looking inside them the ports are 2 time the size of a header. I sold a 20yr old set of bassets w/ the regulator and water injector manifolds for 350 at the swap meet last year.
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i looked up the website and called. immediate voicemail. left message i wanted some info on the double walled headers. couple hours later i got a text...a friggin TEXT! "i have them in stock let me know if you need a set." that is some serious customer service.
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they are probably using texting because of their poor english. i'm no saying to buy from them but if you had a chance to talk on the phone with them you would appreciate the text! I have imported several big ticket items (20k+) over the years and prefer to communicate via text/email for clarification and record keeping.
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They have thru transom headers for 350 bux also . Look like jet boat style .if you had a cam . And a jet boat and didnt mind fabbing some water lines and knew how to plumb a overboard dump and were on a shoestring budget and they fit ,might not be a bad deal for o.t jetboat exhaust . I think rewarders are a thou a set now. Wouldnt even think about it for sterndrive though.