Does anyone have any experience with these, they are cheap and a supposed good design with stepped primaries and an equalizer tube. But I have heard from one person on this board that there is a problem with the welds. I know you generally get what you pay for and would like a D/C or Edelbrock, but I'm planning on going turbo later, so I don't want to spend too much.

 

1st set of headers I had were Chikaras they were on my d15b7 engine ... They were ugley as sin .. but i guess they worked .. I never had them crack or anything I dont know about performance gains .. but the car definatly felt "smoother"

 

were they the stepped design, or regular primaries?

 

I've got chikara's on my d15b7. They work fine, they look like **** though. Gave me a LITTLE horsepower, DC is alot better though, I can say that by experience.

Chikaras are good for the money i suppose

 

so there was a noticable difference with the D/C from the chikara's...was it pull, low end? top end? a little more info...

 

I had just the regular ones not the Torq step .. their add claims more Hp then DC .. I dont beleve that ... but Like I said if your just gona have them for a short period of time they arnt bad ... oh and when that paint burns off it smells like *** !

 

Chikara sucks, I almost bought one for my integra, but then I went the DC route. It doesn't matter what finish you get on Chikara, it will look like flaking spray paint in a few days after install. You'll be lucky to get one or two hp out of them.

 

I had the regular tork step on a D16z6. I went from stock exhaust to header,racecat,2" cat back. I had much better top end and no loss of low end. The tork step thing sounded like a gimmick to me but they were out of the plain one. So I would say get them and put extra $$$ towards turbo

 

i have on and it fits like crap i had to modify it too fit. It also looks like *** but i got it for $80

 

pretty wide range of view, on http://www.hadamotorsport.com/tech/r...emc/index.html they had some decent info. well thanks guys. MAybe i can find a used D/C and if not I just may try the Chikara's, then invest in the turbo...