Headermania

[Stephen Williams <mannlaw@indy.net>]

	Bryan makes a good point about economies of scale: Sell more = 
Sell cheaper.  HOWEVER, you are not taking orders for shifter knobs 
here.  The way the manufacturing business runs is:  Identify a market; 
R&D a prototype; Test,Test,Test the prototype / small production run; 
document the advantages of the design, re-design around the little 
monsters, Test,Test,Test some more THEN sell as many of the mothers as 
you can.  Where are the test results here?  

	Eric brings up an important point when discussing Honda, et. al., 
and why they had someone else do the nut work on exhausts.  Having been 
up against Honda in the real world I can tell you it was not because they 
could not afford the dyno time to make their own.  Furthermore, Honda 
does not lack engineers.  

	Spend your money where you will, but hopefully we are all here 
trying to help each other spend it wisely on performance parts for the 
Audi.  From the BTDT dept on headers, my advice is:  do everything else 
FIRST.  The HP you hope to produce from a well designed header can be 
bought much cheaper elsewhere.

Good Luck,

Bruce