Curious

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:27 pm

Can anyone tell me if these are after-market headers? or does the FTO come factory with em SS?

down pipe

Post by **dstocks** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:08 pm

I would have said yes. The stock ones have no shine at all normally. They are normally a dirty brown colour

Post by **I8A4RE** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:20 pm

Definitly aftermarket

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:25 pm

thats so cool

thanx

Astron_Boy · Post by **Astron_Boy** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:18 pm

Aftermarket

They look like mine, which are RPW made.

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:53 pm

should i bother wrapping them? im pretty sure i have some spare

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:39 pm

They are Pro Shop Idia extractors! SCORE.

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:23 pm

Bennoz wrote:They are Pro Shop Idia extractors! SCORE.

cool, i take it they are rare? ive only heard of RPW ones

il take a better look at the downpipes later, thats a crappy pic but i think they are SS too

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:34 pm

cool found em on the pro shop iida site, must come with the pipes as well

Fulltiltorgasm · Post by **Fulltiltorgasm** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:03 pm

MAD-FTO wrote:Aftermarket

They look like mine, which are RPW made.

hey mate, im thinkin of getting the RPW headers do u recommend them and what gains would u expect???

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:07 pm

hahaha, thread hijacker

Astron_Boy · Post by **Astron_Boy** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:58 pm

Came with the car, never driven any other FTO, has as a full exhaust and other goodies, so couldnt say the gains.

Have heard mixed responses on headers for these cars though, dunno.

FTEvolution · Post by **FTEvolution** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:05 am

F'in aye mate, those are a nice score. I skim read the thread, did your car come with 'em? If so...

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:38 am

yep came with the car when i bought it, the lebo that owned the car before me must have stolen em

bushido · Post by **bushido** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:04 pm

wow thats a cool discovery. And my vote goes to getting headers. Much better growl IMO plus the freeer flowing

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:08 pm

i think i might take em out and give em a bit of a reco

FTEvolution · Post by **FTEvolution** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:51 pm

tippin9 wrote:cool found em on the pro shop iida site, must come with the pipes as well

Anyone else think he should chop the flexi off, mandrel some pipe up to where the battery is and install a 35/40, fab a dump pipe then mate it to a nice fat 3.5" Mandrel zorst, plumb in some oil lines, mount a FMIC, fab some heat shielding and install a Haltech?

This would be the easiest opportunity I have seen thus far to turb an FTO. Seeing those headers again have got my juices flowing again (the creative ones, don't get ideas Subbie).

Nacho · Post by **Nacho** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:59 pm

The downpipe bend doesn't look like much of an improvement on the gas flow in relation with the direction the car is travelling. It looks like they didn't correct it on this set with the gasses colliding at the y-point at a bad angle. Maybe ditch the downpipe and get the better one....I think it was the UAS pipe.

Post by **Bennoz** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:16 pm

FTEvolution wrote:Anyone else think he should chop the flexi off, mandrel some pipe up to where the battery is and install a 35/40, fab a dump pipe then mate it to a nice fat 3.5" Mandrel zorst, plumb in some oil lines, mount a FMIC, fab some heat shielding and install a Haltech?

This would be the easiest opportunity I have seen thus far to turb an FTO. Seeing those headers again have got my juices flowing again (the creative ones, don't get ideas Subbie).

What is it with you & turning a simple conversation into a turbo conversion? Do you work for Garret?

Nacho wrote:The downpipe bend doesn't look like much of an improvement on the gas flow in relation with the direction the car is travelling. It looks like they didn't correct it on this set with the gasses colliding at the why-point at a bad angle. Maybe ditch the downpipe and get the better one....I think it was the UAS pipe.

Agree to a point. If the headers are tuned to length perfectly, then the merging of gas pulses will be perfect, even in that seeemly constrictive join. If the headers aint perfectly tuned - then yep, go for a UAS style collector. Much better gas velocity regardless.

Astron_Boy · Post by **Astron_Boy** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:25 pm

Bennoz wrote:

Same as RPW which is what mine look like.