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Old 05-13-2010, 04:47 PM   #13
Cloudsurfer
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Originally Posted by ekam
NHP headers never look right in my eyes IMO, with the unequal length runners and side-entry high-flow cat. I've never seen any of the big companies use side-entry cats. You do get what you pay for really.
Maybe I'm wrong about where they're made, but no one who knows anything about fluid dynamics, especially as it pertains to internal combustion exhaust design, would design a header that looks like that. Any decent headers you see will have merge collectors, and if catted, will have smooth transitions into and out of the cats- NOT a flat piece of metal welded to one side with a pipe on it (such that exhaust flow only goes through the middle of the grid) and then an exit on the side (so that whatever flow makes it through the middle of the grid has to now make a 90 degree (or tighter) turn in an extremely small radius.

Made in China or Canada or for all I care Nigeria, that's not the way to design a well flowing header.
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