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Awesome did you see the headers Im gonna build?
I think im gonna start selling titanium/stainless/carbonfiber super headers. Ill make a commercial in time lapse photography. You'll see a car sitting on street with buildings all around. Then the time lapse will start, 100 years, 500 years, 1000 years and as all the buildings become engulfed in plant life so does the car. Humans are long gone and mother nature takes back the streets and buildings. Now the next ice age starts and whats left of the car becomes encased in 100' of ice for 10,000 years. Next the ice thaws and the tiny bit of car that is left is now under a ocean. When the water finally subsides all that's left on a grassy hill is a set of headers. My slogan will be "$3000 for headers but they'll last 300,000 years" Ill build them in the US for $300, get some fancy brand name, mark them up %500, tell everyone that I needed a $300,000 machine and nasa engineers to design and build them. Then i'll go around on the forums and bad mouth anyone who's buys anything less. I'll beat them over the head with my propaganda till they agree to buy them just to shut me up. How am i doing guys? |
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Premium headers aren't marked up. They cost more to design and produce. You'd probably be surprised to see the profit margin on a set of headers from Kooks or ARH.
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I guess man, I'm over it. I got a great deal and my car runs like a champ. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to PM me.
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People make the mistake of looking at what materials costs and not the overhead. A header is nothing but pipe and flanges...maybe $100 in material right. That ignores some of the following things.
All that, and I am certain I forgot a bunch of stuff. Bottom line is, there is a lot of cost in being a specialized manufactuer like Kooks. These costs are obviously not shared by a company that steals someone elses header and sends it to China to be made in runs of 50 between orders for Walmart Lawn furniture. Who cares if the person making your header has no clue what it is they are makring...and does not car? It's cheap right? Tech support, major dealers? Who needs them..sell on ebay..and if you have a problem..well it's cheap..what do you expect? Deal with it. Last edited by MarylandSpeed; 01-12-2012 at 04:36 AM. |
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Good write up, and an excellent indicator of just how many of those expenses OBX can eliminate by simply stealing a header design from someone else. And if you can circumvent those expenses by capitalizing on someone else's design, you can offer a cheaper product by default, regardless of quality or where it's made.
Can anyone honestly say that they don't see a problem with this?
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That being said, for a company like Kooks, that made a huge investment in north american manufactuering capacity two years ago..that would also be a huge risk. |
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I hate these OBX header threads. I can't believe people will create a thread to support OBX headers. It flat out makes me sick. I grew up in an American town where more than 10,000 steel workers lost their jobs when the steel mills closed up in the early 80s. Because of this, I watched some hardworking guys lose their lively hood, houses, musclecars, etc., just because of the foreign competitive steel market. You've got to be kidding me, if you think you are doing the right thing by buying OBX headers. If you want to save a few bucks, go at it, because its your money and you can do whatever you want with your money. But I for one, would think much less of one of the greatest American icon cars, the Camaro, that had the aftermarket OBX headers installed on it.
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