E-bay headers

Exactly... That would have meant buying a couple sets at headers to reverse engineer at 350+ vs the cheap flowtechs at ~130

The back end payoff would have been huge, but, it's the same low hanging trash.

i see your point there but in reality they probably didnt even have to reverseengineer anything since they probably got the paterns from whoever they are making mildsteel headers for.
design probably stolen from whoever started makeing there **** in there factory. i would guess a cheap brand like flowtech.