What headers work, and what don't?

Hersbird said

I'd bet that the tooling used to build the least expensive headers is actually the best out there. TTi is not using anything more exotic then the other guys. What makes the ttis more expensive is where and who is building them. I could also see them being that expensive if they were going through the CARB certification of late model applications, but they are not. What they are doing is making lots of profits, there is nothing wrong at all with that, but don't pretend that they are not. Me, I'll have my slaves over in China whip me out another set when I need them.

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think you misunderstood me there or maybe i wasnt clear enough, what i tried to say was that the tooling for this kind of tubebending is very expensive and if are doing less application specific stuff and your market is making 1 5/8" primarytubes for a chavysmallblock passanger car you can and will make alot more parts with the same tooling and fixtures than trying to build some very good fitting mopar a-Body headers, and making the headers to fit everytime means the fixtures need to be very solid and wellbuilt to not warp over time from wellding heat, and not to forget it takes a person who knows how to weld and use the fixture to make something that fits everytime, i think this is the biggest problem with the cheaper headers.. also steel is not for free and using thicker gauge tubing will cost more just as using thicker flanges and that also means more power has to be used to properly cut and form the material, its alot of things making an expensive package.. also sure making profit is a good thing and i think that it is right as loong as the product you are making the profit on is first class