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DT header install: heat shields suck
Received my DT shoty headers earlier this week.
Nick at prerunnerparts offers great service. Good guy to deal with.
The exterior of the headers look great. the welds are "OK". I am not impressed with the blending of the ports. I highly doubt that it will affect performance due to laminar flow. For me, its really a looks thing. The lack of pride of workmanship with these is evident.
There were also ceramic spheres in the collector area that were left over from the coating process. I removed them myself.
It appears that DT has poor quality control.
I installed them because: I wanted them for the drive across the country next week, no time for hand picked ones and they are the only ones authorized for California operation.
If you get them, I highly recommend you purchase new OEM copper crush ring gaskets.
They were a pain to install. Those heat shields are of the devil. They were the most frustrating part of the install.
The exhaust note changed slightly. A friend said she noticed it. There is also a little more power.
Need to have it dyno'ed.
I don't want to make this a bash session and this is not a hit on prerunnerparts.
Received my DT shoty headers earlier this week.
Nick at prerunnerparts offers great service. Good guy to deal with.
The exterior of the headers look great. the welds are "OK". I am not impressed with the blending of the ports. I highly doubt that it will affect performance due to laminar flow. For me, its really a looks thing. The lack of pride of workmanship with these is evident.
There were also ceramic spheres in the collector area that were left over from the coating process. I removed them myself.
It appears that DT has poor quality control.
I installed them because: I wanted them for the drive across the country next week, no time for hand picked ones and they are the only ones authorized for California operation.
If you get them, I highly recommend you purchase new OEM copper crush ring gaskets.
They were a pain to install. Those heat shields are of the devil. They were the most frustrating part of the install.
The exhaust note changed slightly. A friend said she noticed it. There is also a little more power.
Need to have it dyno'ed.
I don't want to make this a bash session and this is not a hit on prerunnerparts.
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