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Old 05-31-2016, 04:14 PM
English Power English Power is offline
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Default Headers Are Worthless On Street Engines

We Europeans have always known steel tubing exhaust manifolds (aka "headers") are worthless when used on street engines unless they are run OPEN ("uncorked"). And as you can't run OPEN headers on the street they are nothing but worthless ornaments with a fancy name and an even fancier price.

You gullible Americans have been convinced headers actually "produce" power when in fact they don't produce anything. Power is produced inside the cylinders and once the hot exhaust gasses get blown out of the cylinders the power "event" is over.

When "headers" were first used in the early 1960's their collectors had 4" diameter cover plates attached so they could be opened "uncorked" so the exhaust gasses could be blown to the open air. But sometime after the 1960's ignorant people began attaching their exhaust pipes directly to the ends of the collectors which made the headers worthless other than looking racy.

Headers are intended to be run OPEN to bypass the restrictions of the exhaust pipes, mufflers, and tail pipes. But as street engines require mufflers what good are the headers when they have to be run corked?

So why do you goofy Americans love your headers so much?
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