I'm in no way affiliated with this company, just saw their ad in the back of a magazine and my jaw dropped. Figure someone else here would find these to be extremely helpful.

http://www.icengineworks.com





Genius. Just thought I'd post up something that should help EVERYONE who is into making header(s). Now I get to play with Legos at work.

 

Wow, that's a really nice tool. Thanks a lot for sharing!

 

Awesome!
must have it!!!

 

Thanks, very nice indeed. Seems like fabbing up a manifold in solidworks is really no longer needed with this.

 

omg the end all be all tool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! perfect radius every time!

 

Best idea ever!

 

no prices... uh oh...

 

entirely too much reading... cliff notes?

 

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Pictures pretty much say it all

 

thats tight and a great idea. these guys might take over the industry with the patent

 

its like building blocks for maifolds, Pre sized and pre cut modular bends, so that you can form a manifold without cutting any pipe until your doen with yoru final design. Then you break apart the building blocks and cut to size and viola instant manifold. And no need for cheater bends because the modular pieces don;t have any.

 

You guys shouldn't be so hard on yourselfs. Build a few sets of headers and you will throw that thing in the trash.I can eyeball a cut dead nuts everytime.And so could everybody else after you do it enough. I have cut so many tubes ,I can just about throw it at the saw and its right on.LOL

The idea is to have the least amount of welds .Not to see how many you can get.
Rule #1 Never weld 2 pieces of straight together. Go straight turn straight turn. When you put two straights together it looks like a goof up.This is a pretty good example.See how there is not any straight to straight welds?



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i know exactly what you are talking about Randy

 

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The idea is to have the least amount of welds .Not to see how many you can get.
Rule #1 Never weld 2 pieces of straight together. Go straight turn straight turn. When you put two straights together it looks like a goof up.This is a pretty good example.See how there is not any straight to straight welds?



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That works great when you have the space, but guess how long it took me to make this. The customer wanted it to bolt to the stock ball-socket type connection y-pipe, have a merge collector and have it equal length while also clearing his supercharger/water-air aftercooler setup. I had fun with that.



This product would is designed for situations like this. Not for a generic longtube setup. I've built a 'few' sets of headers myself and am not full of myself enough to totally disregard a great product that is going to save time and money.

 

Oh you made that deal ? Sorry about that.Hey maybe some people DO need to use it .I was just saying that me personally ,I wouldn't ,Because it would slow me down.I'm not stuck on myself. Its just that I have made 1000s of headers in my life.
Your headers look good .But they are just different than I would do them.You have 6 and 7 welds per tube.On this header here there is 2 and 3 at the most.
Your doing a good job .I was just sharing a little of my 30 some years making those things.

 

darnit why did you have to share this, lol I had my name in the kiddy for the first one of them along time ago, was hoping no one else found out about it...
-James

 

I got a price quote for them
$ 1,100.00 plus s&h

 

Sweet, costs less than that third-arm transplant I saw on TV.

 

I guess I can ruin a good bit of pipe before arriving at that price tag

 

but for what sizes?? or is that their complete kit...

 

Availability is expected for early April
for the 1.625"OD which is the first of nine to come out during 06.
The part number, not yet uploaded on the website is 1625L4T
with a cost of $ 1,100.00 plus s&h and includes 120 blocks
plus 4 adapters.
As probably you are aware already, we plan to open a pre-order
period on March 15th. If you wish, I can email you a Paypal payment
request for the total including UPS-G service to Illinois by then and
we would ship during the first days of April

 

thats an awesome tool and would be cool to have and would be great to work with but the price is crazy for what it is i think if they lowered the price which im sure they could for the cost to produce it they would make much more profit

 

cool tool and everythign but $1100 for some legos? Are you joking?? Why cant they simply stamp out some cheap plastic pieces like legos since most of the are either tight turn, gradual turn or straight. Sounds bonkers to me

 

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I am guessing they had to make special molds which cost the most, and they are trying to cover their cost, as time goes by I am sure the price will go down very very much.

 

looks like good stuff

thanks for posting it.