Bad Additude? Chit! That should be my screen name, and the board will agree.

Anyway, I shopped headers for a decade. I heard mixed reviews about Dougs, with many saying that they are a hammer fit. Even if they aren't a hammer fit, I think that they are major overpriced because you aren't getting any extra for the extra money. After all, there isn't a shred of documentation that shows that they are any better than others. Likewise for Pypes exhaust, zero documention that its sytem offers anhything additional other than the price. Please show me the beef in either case.

Headman looks like it's a good fit, it appears that they are not a hammer fit, and they are a fraction of the price of Hooker. The only reason I passed on the Headman was that the right header collector hangs down further than the hooker, and I hate the look of brass balls dragging on the pavment.

I bought thermal coated Hookers last spring and had a custom exhaust installed last year. The headers had the same install effort as factory logs. (If I think of it, I'll get some shots of the headers installed because I have the front clip off, and it don't get no more visual than that.) No hammering whatsoever, and the bolts for cylinder #5 and #6 don't get any easier considering the funkyass design.

Cost? The headers and system cost the same money as a set of Dougs, still sitting in the box. The difference between cheap and cost effective lies in quality. I spent this side of $500 for a copper brass rad because it's ten times the better quality rad, including cooling ability, than the $100 pos alumn rad. Also, I paid over double for the thermal barrier headers.

Just like passing on the less expensive Headman, the reason I didn't buy dougs has nothing to do with the price because if I thought they were better than Headmans or Hookers, I would have bought them.