Other header and cam options

so stillen, dc sports, brian crower, ect are "unknown" parts. being in japan will give you different options than living in the states. whats "unknown" there is mainstream market here and vice versa. what popular there may not be popular here. people here in the states will tell you what to do and not to do too that doesn't really make it any more or less right or wrong. when it comes down to it buy the part with the best value, i have only ever had to replace one aftermarket header and it wasn't a quality issue. make sure its a good material with good welds, if two products have the same qualities paying more because a company thinks their name is worth more is a waste of money. hell by buddy wanted an intake for his mazda so i did the research and found that for $60 he could have an exact replica injen intake shipped to his door for $170 less than than the injen. every weld and the fittment was perfect the only thing it didn't have was an injen badge on it and an injen filter, so we ordered a dryflow and threw the cheap one it came with in the trash, total price for intake and filter, about $120 still making ti $110 cheaper than injen and its the exact same thing. research the product not the name.

MESOGLEA said:

That was what my knock off comment was about.
What company will spend time, effort, man hours and money to design something that another company will reverse engineer? The other company will change something minor and mass produce in China for a fraction of the cost.
People go out to get the cheapest stuff and wonder why parts for their vehicle don’t exist. Who will do the above for a small portion of consumer enthusiasts that will complain about the price and then want the knock off version anyway?

What other company offers that many cam options?

Most of those "Jap headers" are not made in Japan. They are made in China or Thailand.

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the thing about intakes is how much r&d is really put into the average intake. they bend some pipe weld on a maf mount and throw on a filter. hop on a dyno and see what they got. the real r&d is already done, a long long time ago, you pay for the name on the sticker. intakes cost what they do because people will pay it blindly, why charge less if you know you can get it. its like the music industry, they act as if the masses are taking food off the tables of these artists because they download their music for free when the reality is they might not be able to buy that new version of the bugatti veyron and the only reason they make that money in the first place is because we blindly throw it at them and enough people always will at least enough for them to get that 4th Ferrari or one of the boats i used to build. in just the way that the parts will always exist, if the people want it enough it will be made. like it or not the market is bases off supply demand and competition. many of the major companies today got their start reverse engineering someone elses product, then the more people buy from them the more they can charge then you start paying for the name. and the big name brand jap companies have their run of crap products too. HKS had the worst quality control that i've even seen when it came to their Hi Power exhaust for the 350z, an h pipe with a cross over tube that on some of them protruded into the main pipes almost fully blocking them off. look it up on my350z.com. sent back 2 systems that had the same crap then got my money back and bought the copy of that exhaust that was cheaper and has much much better quality than the hks one. but hey if you would rather have the hks name you can take the poor performing crap built exhaust, and i'll take the better built fully functioning exhaust instead of the legendary hks name. when it comes down to it the best product for the price wins. there are little companies that make great stuff and some make crap and the same goes for the big names