[Euro] DC Header - Arrived

**Matell** · 14-06-2005 10:27 PM

Pum[Z], of course as is usual I'll give a little review on my thoughts about it and pass it on.

euro77, sadly I think from following the TSX threads on another forum I tend to think it does need the weld, though I could be wrong. They have done a good weld job on the outside of the flex pipe section to flange, so maybe improving the quality of that weld was sufficient. Oh and nick want's one, surely you've got paypal

Ferrarista, noobish questions are always good. At this stage I don't know, several more hp I imagine at best, however power deliver should be smoother from low rpm to redline. :xfingers:

**EuroAccord13** · 15-06-2005 12:17 AM

It's about 5HP @ the wheels for the DC Sports.. and it's measured in SAE measurement AFAIK so it might read a little less on our local dynos....

**EURO-R** · 15-06-2005 01:10 AM

Nice!! wanna know more installation detail .

**learner** · 15-06-2005 02:14 AM

tats very nice Matell... good luck on the installation : )

**stephen8512** · 15-06-2005 07:10 AM

oooooh nice stuff mattell!!!
besides build quality, is there anything else much diff. to the comptech headers? (besides it being stainless steel and teh D2 being ceramic)?

**blkeuro** · 15-06-2005 09:31 AM

very nice matell... can't wait for your dyno..

**jolt** · 15-06-2005 10:29 AM

I'm waiting for my DC Sports headers to clear customs but hopefully I'll have them before the weekend and be fitting them then. I plan to attempt to fit them myself and will most likely take a few photo's but the guides on http://tsx.acurazine.com/ are very detailed and probably better than what I could put together.

Baboo's headers are known most commonly as Maxim Works. I have a set fitted to my MX5 and they truly are a work of art. Here's some photo's of mine when they first arrived before being fitted.

http://www.prosperion.com.au/maximworks/

The flanges are billet stainless steel and the welds and bends are impeccable. There are lots of close-up photo's on that site.

DC Sports headers are a bargain though at a fraction of the cost and seem to do a pretty good job based on the information available on http://tsx.acurazine.com/.

**EuroAccord13** · 15-06-2005 11:28 AM

Indeed the MaximWorks are works of Art when it comes to headers, their quality, build and finish is unsurpassed.. But what about the net gains at the wheels?

With a MW set, you could have purchased at least 4 sets of DC Sports headers. Also that, DC Sports uses Mild Steel (Which will rust) but is Ceremic Coated but once scratched, I'd be worried.

CompTech ones being Stainless Steel will naturally cost more.

As for the DC Sports ones for the Euro, it's an entry level system that is both affordable and with proven gains, minus their earlier cracking problem heeheeheeh...\

With reference from Matell, I'm also giving the seller an email to purchase one too and I'll try to do a DIY install on it when it arrives

**BLKCRX** · 15-06-2005 11:41 AM

For the Price the headers are ok.. but from my testing so far.. hmm there are better options ...darn i love the euro ;-) lots of hidden power from cams, headers, tuning.. or even supercharging them ;-)

**EuroAccord13** · 15-06-2005 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by BLKCRX

For the Price the headers are ok.. but from my testing so far.. hmm there are better options ...darn i love the euro ;-) lots of hidden power from cams, headers, tuning.. or even supercharging them ;-)

I'm following up on Skunk2 Cams.. Are they good

? Or you guys have something better

...

**Matell** · 15-06-2005 12:26 PM

Well just following up thanks to the opinions of the guys in the US, these are infact the "fixed" version. The ceramic coating is a pain. When I took them out of the box I noticed a few little nicks on one of the pipes of the 4-2 section. It came from the way DC packs them into the box with only folded cardboard keeping the plastic bagged 4-2, and 2-1 sections apart. There's also an area on the 2-1 section bend that looks to have hard some of the coating rubbed off against the inside of the bag. There is coating there it's just thinner than everywhere else. It's to be expected from the way they're packed, so I thought DC may've used a little more common sense and surrounded them in foam, or air cell packaging. I'll probably give the areas a light touch up with some matt silver high temp brake paint overspray unless advised otherwise.