Originally posted by fastcougar:
My point is this: Their price for a "full" system (headers & Y-Pipe) is not less, BUT MORE than SHM's where when they where being sold. They have only proven marginal gains over MSDS considering the price difference. If you treated your car like a "business of horsepower", the Return On Investment just isn't there ... the hp per $ ratio is horrible. Don't get me wrong, I see the market & desire for long tube headers for our cars, but what's the point really if it costs an arm and leg ... we already have that with SHM!



Well Nikolas at Draxas has been contacted by Adam (atom44wat from Mazda6club) who is still running MSDS headers on an ATX, he also was one of the ones who purchased the CPe headers. Other than the headers he has the CPe tunable intake system and Magnaflow catback. They will start with a dyno of the MSDS headers still on the car and make sure AFR is tuned properly and dyno again if required. Then they will install the CPe headers, dyno, check and adjust AFR as needed and dyno again if required. Back-to-back dynos, on the same day, on the same engine.

So we will finally have our answer in a few weeks time.

Driving the Caliber Side project: The LT-5 Fiero is being born..