Originally Posted by George Knighton
However, you will get the same gains you will get with other big-name headers and, while you will spend quite a bit more than you would for the JDM OEM header, you will spend quite a bit less on the SMSP header than you'd spend on the competing high quality headers.
I'm not entirely sure if you've ever priced out an SMSP header, but if you have, you havn't priced out anything else. When I emailed Dave I think it was, don't remember his name, but Trey reffered me, he emailed back with a price of like $1300...that being said. The Toda header is less than a grand, the Spoon header is less than a grand, the Jun header is less than a grand, the Type-one header is less than a grand, the fujitsobo header is less than a grand, and the Hytech was just over twelve hundred.
If anything, the SMSP is the most expensive header availabe, and honestly, I think I'd rather a Toda header over an SMSP, after having seen both, the finish on the Toda is so much nicer, not to mention making about the same power gains....
It's really all what you're looking for...SMSP can custom make something for a specific application, but if you're not gonna be super charging your car or something, and don't need huge primaries or like a 3" collector or something out of the ordinary, then I wouldn't spend the money...
It seems that names in headers have become more about the name than the actual performance.
Just my opinion.....
Later,
Aj