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Marylandspeed: All I saw from your post was high costs of making these headers due to wages and costs of doing manufacturing works in this country. Not a whole lot on R&D, which is my point. Hate to tell you, but you aren't the only people facing this problem. It's simply impossible to be competitive making low tech products with our costs of living in this country, but this can be an endless debate. Simply stated, I always tried to buy American made products. Hell, I have always bought GM cars (my whole family worked for GM); 1 Japanese car and 1 Chrysler product vs. 14 GM cars in the last 30 years. The G35 was the only foreign car since GM didn't have a competing product a few years ago. If you can produce these headers at a more competitive price, I am sure a lot of people wouldn't have to look elsewhere. That lifetime thing, it's pretty worthless with headers. The beauty of these pony/muscle cars, if people still remembered, was that they were "cheap" performance (cheap in costs per performance) and was fun and inexpensive to add mods so that Joe Blows like a lot of us can afford. People like JBAs and OBXs will always be around because of the void for these low costs mods.