Are We Still Stuck With the 4-1 Headers?

[Galavoxx]

Originally Posted by Vanderkitten

I personally bought the Yaris to put money into... which sounds silly, but it's an affordable, excellent micro-tuner. I would spend $700 on full exhaust, hell, 2 carbon canisters for my Ducati cost $850.

Anyhow, there might be a 4-2-1 solution in the near future... but a question I have is how many HP and ft/lbs. of torque would make it worth buying? Dollar per HP, nothing beats a turbo kit.

I want a turbo. So unless someone can make a header that kicks at least 15hp for under $500, I don't know if I'll bite. With a 85+hp engine, 15hp seems to be impossible. The smart thing for some enterprising company to do would be to produce a header 4-1 or 4-2-1 but pair it with a piggyback unit with optional tunes available at time of purchase depending on our configurations. That would be hot and might even produce close to 15hp if done properly. I guess we'll have to wait until someone cracks the engine management before we see if a piggybacked N/A system will even produce power.