Wow, a very convincing argument from Chicane. (I love reading your posts, BTW - always informative). :)

Who dares to counter that? Not me. :_paranoid

I am just glad I scored my full stainless steel stepped headers made for my application (plain ole SBC) off ebay for $750 about two years ago!

Mr Chicane, what is your analysis of these? (1-3/4" stepped to 1-7/8" with 3.5" collector) :cheers: (sorry for the quick threadjack, but it's sorta related!)

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/f...pedheaders.jpg

Mr. Chicane....?:rofl:

I know his name is Tom but I like to cite usernames sometimes! :willy:

Well it seem at only real tech head can understood my point on this.. Thanks again Chicane:cheers:

Back from the dead...


I wanted to comment on DSE's headers as mine arrived today. Honestly, not impressed for the price in terms of cosmetic. The headers are defintly "raw", there are tooling marks all over them, and they are not one piece tubes. You can see the weld beads.

As for the oxygen sensor, it looks like its in one tube, but the tubes are already merged together at that point. Its exposed to all 3 tubes.

My hopeful main point is they will fit awesome and killer ground clearence.

I'm gonna contact DSE, about to mock them up and I just can't get over the tool marks!

Can you throw up some pics?

It is kinda unfortunate that everyone frets about the price. I build headers for a living and that price is not far off for a set of "custom" headers

But they should not be considered custom because after the first set the price should come down. Dont forget the tooling costs also must be offset.


It is unfortunate that the tubing wasn't pre prepped before welding, that is unacceptable in my mind.

Yup, I did contact them and the tooling marks are considered normal. They do have beautiful welds, but the pictures on the sites do make the tubes look nicer than they really are. Overall, the fit is what make me happy


Pm me for pictures