Header design exhaust legos lol.
http://www.icengineworks.com/icewmain.htm
http://www.icengineworks.com/icewmain.htm
,they just provide the plastic parts that allow you to mock up a design? and YOU still need to build your own headers for that price? so for $1400 or so you get plastic sections to mock up a design then you still need to buy the steel, cut, fit and weld up a header all at further expense
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Sweet product but way over priced, in my opinion," unless your doing it continuously (building custom headers)
DITTO!
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS, I do enough odd engine swaps that dropping $500 on that would be fine as a tool cost, but I looked into this you'll really need about $1900 in parts to build decent headers and that's MINIMUM it could easily cost more, the parts allow you to build primary tube lengths at about 30"-33" you'll need 37"-39" primaries on many applications and that would require addition of custom kit parts
PLUS I don,t see the collectors or flange plates listed , you'll need several different flange plates to make the tool cost worth it. YEAH! I'm sure I could work around those problems easily,but for $1900 PLUS Id expect that to be handled in the cost
Smurf tube is corrugated PVC flexible tubing used to provide an easy method of upgrading structured wiring systems. The tube is run from the distribution panel to each outlet during the pre-wiring construction phase. Retrofit wiring can easily be pulled through the tubes without painstaking cable snaking. The most common type, Flex-Plus Blue ENT, is manufactured by Carlon, Cleveland, Ohio. Workers nicknamed it “smurf tube†because of its distinctive blue color
For header builders that kit looks like it would be a life saver. No more wasting metal and having to cut welds and modify tubing to get them just right. just play lego's for a bit, pull it off, and there you go. you have your header all mocked up and now you can build just ONE header ONE time and it'll fit perfect. It does cost a lot, but say you build custom headers for 200 a piece and you sell 10 sets. you've now made a profit AND saved yourself a ton of time and materials.
"Now that's funny! A custom header for $200?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYCck4pT ... sgodXiPPsg
oh! yeah! HAVING BUILT OVER A DOZEN CUSTOM ENGINE SWAP HEADERS... TRY $800-$1800 ON AVERAGE, YOULL BE FAR CLOSER
heres some tools to help, if your building your own custom exhaust
http://www.metalgeek.com/static/cope.pcgi
http://pipemastertools.com/store/page1.html
JUST THE MATERIALS (especially stainless with merge collectors) CAN VERY EASILY COST $700-$1200 IN SOME CASES AND then IT GETS LABOR, INTENSIVE, in many cases modifying a standard set of production headers can save you a bunch of time an effort IF YOUR FAMILIAR WITH which headers ALMOST fit the application, that and your limited in many cases to 30,45,60, and 90 and 189 degree preformed bends to cut and modify of a standard radias, yeah, you can cut and fabricate but its never a cut to length, bolt on and weld deal with easy cuts a pipe cutter could cut, the edge weld circumference distance is only consistent on 90 degree cuts, heres something that helps occasionally...
http://www.headerdesign.com/extras/resources.asp
http://www.pontiacracing.net/js_header_length1.htm
http://www.metalgeek.com/static/cope.pcgi
http://victorylibrary.com/mopar/header-tech-c.htm
http://www.bgsoflex.com/auto.html
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=961&p=1654#p1654
http://www.stahlheaders.com/Lit_measurement_1.htm
http://www.slowgt.com/Calc2.htm#Header
don,t think your MAX rpm is what you use to compute, use the AVERAGE rpm durring a run
btw
http://www.cosworthvega.com/ExhaustFabII/Exhaust_Fab_II.html
http://www.pontiacstreetperformance.com ... aust3.html
http://www.speedwaybids.com/forum/viewt ... 6e4152fd32
http://www.ssheaders.com/header.htm
http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~allan/fluids/page1/page1f.html
http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~allan/fluids/page7/PipeLength/pipe.html
youll need this
http://www.kusashi.com/temperature.php?a=500&c=kels&d=fah&stage=results
http://www.icengineworks.com/icewmain.htm
http://www.icengineworks.com/icewmain.htm
,they just provide the plastic parts that allow you to mock up a design? and YOU still need to build your own headers for that price? so for $1400 or so you get plastic sections to mock up a design then you still need to buy the steel, cut, fit and weld up a header all at further expense
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Sweet product but way over priced, in my opinion," unless your doing it continuously (building custom headers)
DITTO!
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS, I do enough odd engine swaps that dropping $500 on that would be fine as a tool cost, but I looked into this you'll really need about $1900 in parts to build decent headers and that's MINIMUM it could easily cost more, the parts allow you to build primary tube lengths at about 30"-33" you'll need 37"-39" primaries on many applications and that would require addition of custom kit parts
PLUS I don,t see the collectors or flange plates listed , you'll need several different flange plates to make the tool cost worth it. YEAH! I'm sure I could work around those problems easily,but for $1900 PLUS Id expect that to be handled in the cost
Smurf tube is corrugated PVC flexible tubing used to provide an easy method of upgrading structured wiring systems. The tube is run from the distribution panel to each outlet during the pre-wiring construction phase. Retrofit wiring can easily be pulled through the tubes without painstaking cable snaking. The most common type, Flex-Plus Blue ENT, is manufactured by Carlon, Cleveland, Ohio. Workers nicknamed it “smurf tube†because of its distinctive blue color
For header builders that kit looks like it would be a life saver. No more wasting metal and having to cut welds and modify tubing to get them just right. just play lego's for a bit, pull it off, and there you go. you have your header all mocked up and now you can build just ONE header ONE time and it'll fit perfect. It does cost a lot, but say you build custom headers for 200 a piece and you sell 10 sets. you've now made a profit AND saved yourself a ton of time and materials.
"Now that's funny! A custom header for $200?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYCck4pT ... sgodXiPPsg
oh! yeah! HAVING BUILT OVER A DOZEN CUSTOM ENGINE SWAP HEADERS... TRY $800-$1800 ON AVERAGE, YOULL BE FAR CLOSER
heres some tools to help, if your building your own custom exhaust
http://www.metalgeek.com/static/cope.pcgi
http://pipemastertools.com/store/page1.html
JUST THE MATERIALS (especially stainless with merge collectors) CAN VERY EASILY COST $700-$1200 IN SOME CASES AND then IT GETS LABOR, INTENSIVE, in many cases modifying a standard set of production headers can save you a bunch of time an effort IF YOUR FAMILIAR WITH which headers ALMOST fit the application, that and your limited in many cases to 30,45,60, and 90 and 189 degree preformed bends to cut and modify of a standard radias, yeah, you can cut and fabricate but its never a cut to length, bolt on and weld deal with easy cuts a pipe cutter could cut, the edge weld circumference distance is only consistent on 90 degree cuts, heres something that helps occasionally...
http://www.headerdesign.com/extras/resources.asp
http://www.pontiacracing.net/js_header_length1.htm
http://www.metalgeek.com/static/cope.pcgi
http://victorylibrary.com/mopar/header-tech-c.htm
http://www.bgsoflex.com/auto.html
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=961&p=1654#p1654
http://www.stahlheaders.com/Lit_measurement_1.htm
http://www.slowgt.com/Calc2.htm#Header
don,t think your MAX rpm is what you use to compute, use the AVERAGE rpm durring a run
btw
http://www.cosworthvega.com/ExhaustFabII/Exhaust_Fab_II.html
http://www.pontiacstreetperformance.com ... aust3.html
http://www.speedwaybids.com/forum/viewt ... 6e4152fd32
http://www.ssheaders.com/header.htm
http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~allan/fluids/page1/page1f.html
http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~allan/fluids/page7/PipeLength/pipe.html
youll need this
http://www.kusashi.com/temperature.php?a=500&c=kels&d=fah&stage=results