oh well what can you ask for. this thing was less then 4 bills....so cant really complain. but iwas just wondering if the rest of you had JDM DC primary flanges this chity? i honestly could have done a better job. i alos thought that their headers were all made by machine?? so they should all look like this right?? or is there a human stage...

here is the weight

leave my feet out of it



is yours like this?










im just waiting for my type one....


[Modified by up-youRs, 10:52 AM 8/17/2002]

 

GOOD GOD those flanges do look like total ***...

 

tell me about it...but like i said for under 4 bills how you could you go wrong? and on the inside of the walls there is this really sticky nasty dirt. i tried to stick my hand down as far as i could but there is stilalot of it in there....im thinking it will all get blown out later...i hope.

 

Nice blue sandals !!!

 

what did i say about the feet?? i knew i should have croped that out

 

Time to take out the navel jelly and dremel them suckers out!

 

i like my dc jdm 4-1!!! eric


[Modified by rainmanEK, 10:00 PM 8/17/2002]

 

Mine were fine nicely finished and no corrosion didn't take any pics as they looked good and weren't an issue, that looks like a bad one (or maybe I got a good one, we'll see what others say about their's), by the way wait until it's on the car a couple of hours this is the last time it will look so sliver and shiney

I de-blinged my header with a cut and hammered UK spec heat shield (that came off the old header.




[Modified by HardHead42, 2:47 PM 8/17/2002]


[Modified by HardHead42, 2:49 PM 8/17/2002]

 

what the hell are you talking about?? i hope you were being sarcastic with this really stupid statement of yours. who said anthing about switching it out?? maybe if you passed the 2nd grade and learned to express your thoughts through the written word, i might not have a problem with you statement.

anyway, so others have had better looking primaries huh?? that kinda sucks, but oh well, what do you expect for under 4 bills right? im sure there will be no adverse effects because of this. i will dyno by months end and post results.

 

umm i was under assumption you were getting type 1 header!! now that i think about it, i think your talking about the exhaust!! sorry for flaming if i was wrong! eric

 

no problem....my statement of the type one was not very clear either....

 

Dude what the **** is wrong with your toes..

 

hardhead can you take a pic of how you mounted the heat shield onto the dc header ?? thanks
edit: and up yours lol dremel!!!!


[Modified by XtraFastCRX, 5:34 PM 8/17/2002]

 

i like your sandals!

 

The welds look the same on my ceramic dc jdm header. It's dremel time!

 

F you all that made fun of my feet or my sandals

i was thinkign of v=breakign out the dremel but what should i do....ake off more metal??? i mean it already looks like alot of metal was taken off...i dont wanna take off more....you know what i mean....i think i am just gonna leave it the way DC sent it to me

 

I dint buy the DC JDM, because it wasnt out yet. hehe! But I bought the 4-2-1, one piece header from DC. The FIRST one I received the damn bolts holes on the primary flange didnt even line up!! I was heated. They gave me the run around. Then they finally sent me a new one. I sent the messed up one back, shipping was paid out of my own pocket (dc bastards!). The second one did fit properly. But on BOTH my primary flange looked just like yours. Dont worry about it too much. I'm looking into the Hytech header and exhaust system. Heard good things about them, just a lil' expensive. But anyways good luck with the DC JDM!

 

The brackets are some cheap (2GBP for 4) zinc plated angle brackets, I enlarged the holes, and cut them to fit and mounted them on the lower header mounting studs, and torqued up the nuts back to facvtory spec. There is only a little of the shield left and it needed considerable hammering to allow clearance of the outer (1 and 4) primary pipes. The heat shield is a UK/EURO spec item I'm not sure if the US version will fit. I don't think it will work that well as a heat shield as it is touching the pipes in some places, but I'm going to get some exhaust wrap and do it properly

The shield is made of two sheets of steel and I have tack welded the bottom edge where it was cut right across to keep the two sheets from seperating.


[Modified by HardHead42, 8:48 AM 8/18/2002]

 

is that a birth mark or are ur toes bleeding? hahaha j/p

 

 

around 17lbs...... not bad, i wonder how heavy the ceramic is... same probably?

 

My JDM DC 4-1 was beautiful. Both inside and outside of the header. As long as it doesn't affect airflow, its all good in my book.

 

don't take off more metal just polish it out

 

My friend rubbed his DC SS header down with clean motor oil on a rag when he firct got it as the thing was getting hot for the first time... turned a beautiful golden colr and has stayed that way ever since.



For some reason the flange rusted out...

 

what do you expect from buying a DC sports header? You know all mass produced stuff is CRAP!!! i learned the hard way and i will never buy it again. Im sorry that you had to waste your money on that piece of crap.