megan headers?

[Grazi07]

Here's a couple of videos from the dyno. What you're hearing is my intake, headers, y and catback with Megan muffler w/o the silencer. With the silencer, and stock head/y, it sounds pretty stock.

[SleeperSolara]

They do look pretty nice.
But it keeps on blowin' the rear gasket......

[DatSRBoi]

What were thenumber gains?

[Grazi07]

At the end of last season, I dyno'ed 154 whp/160 ft lbs with my intake and a GReddy Evo II, automatic transmission.

Last weekend with the charger @ 4lbs, headers, y, intake, and Megan Catback I did 201/180 on a Mustang dyno. they say it reads abt 12% low, so that means roughly 225 hp, with the leak. I don't know how big a difference the leak makes, but my guess is that since it's right at the beginning of the flow, it has a pretty big impact. The guys at the dyno said I could expect another 10-15 whp without it, but thats speculation.

[DatSRBoi]

Good decent numbers. I thought it would be alittle higher though.

[GReddySetGO]

At the end of last season, I dyno'ed 154 whp/160 ft lbs with my intake and a GReddy Evo II, automatic transmission.

Last weekend with the charger @ 4lbs, headers, y, intake, and Megan Catback I did 201/180 on a Mustang dyno. they say it reads abt 12% low, so that means roughly 225 hp, with the leak. I don't know how big a difference the leak makes, but my guess is that since it's right at the beginning of the flow, it has a pretty big impact. The guys at the dyno said I could expect another 10-15 whp without it, but thats speculation.

So your first dyno was with intake and GReddy exhaust only. And your second dyno is with a supercharger and the Megan Racing exhaust?

If that's the case, you cannot compare the two at all. They share zero relevance in determining the amount of power given by the Megan Racing exhaust. A more accurate dyno comparison would be with the supercharger, stock exhaust, then the MR exhaust.

Furthermore, the gains seen by you switching from stock to MR exhaust, would not be comparable to the gains of the other people running NA cars. An FI car will benefit from an exhaust MUCH more than any NA car would.

[Grazi07]

danny,

We're doing it a little backwards, I realize that. We had the headers, and I had the opportunity to get it done, so we put them on and went with it. It's obviously a weak comparison, it's apples to oranges. I'm not trying to pass it off as final numbers and I think my discussion of the leak makes that pretty clear.

My reason for posting is to give people an idea of what I'm working with right now. Posts were made on this inquiring as to what was going on, so there's an update with some videos.

Had these worked, the plan was to do another dyno without them to give a real comparison.

[lilm]

have you been in contact with Mr. Phreakd?


he showed intrest on helping out?....

i think we would all aprreciate his opinion on them anyway

[jazzlara]

bump? any news or is this a pipe dream?

[Grazi07]

Nothing yet... sent the set that was tested in the videos above back to Megan a while ago, haven't heard much since. For all the time and money my guys have dumped into this so far, they better be completed!!!

I'd love the opinion of anyone with knowledge, and if it were feasible/inexpensive enough to get him a set to look at I wouldn't have a problem, doubt the guys involved would either. The problem is that on our end, it's really just fitment and testing. Megan themselves are doing all the construction and design, and they've got their own engineers on the task.

I'm as anxiously awaiting the next set as you all are, trust me! I can't wait to get this project done and the product on the market.

[JavaJoe_2]

Oh yeah I just looked up the price for jpp headers from their website and for headers and ypipe its $1600 bucks? Is that what you guys paid???

Ouch, yes that's the price.
I'm ordering the entire system.
Can't wait no more....................

[dominoSLEV6]

This sounds like if andwhen they do get it right, it's just barely going to be a fix, with all these test fits and still getting leaks. I don't think after this I'm ever really going to feel that these are a solid product. To me, if they end up fixing the problem, I'll feel about as good about it as fixing a leaking sink with chewing gum, that's just the feel of quality or lack thereof I get from megan on this one. Especially after thos epics from the Nissan/infiniti or whatever headers and midpipe etc. I'm really upset as well because we need some affordable headers for our car. I think I speak for everyone here however when I say I'll spend 1,600 on the jpp setup before I spend 600 or so on somehting that's going to fall apart.

-chris

[JavaJoe_2]

This sounds like if andwhen they do get it right, it's just barely going to be a fix, with all these test fits and still getting leaks. I don't think after this I'm ever really going to feel that these are a solid product. To me, if they end up fixing the problem, I'll feel about as good about it as fixing a leaking sink with chewing gum, that's just the feel of quality or lack thereof I get from megan on this one. Especially after thos epics from the Nissan/infiniti or whatever headers and midpipe etc. I'm really upset as well because we need some affordable headers for our car. I think I speak for everyone here however when I say I'll spend 1,600 on the jpp setup before I spend 600 or so on somehting that's going to fall apart.

-chris

To be fair....that's called R&D.
And R&D IS REALLY EXPENSIVE!!!!
Just ask Greg and i'm sure many others on this forum.
We never heard of the problems that JPP had.
I do know that they have had problems with their cats....(hope that that all has been fixed).
We ALL are very lucky to have others that paid out SERIOUS cash, that WE all benefit from.
So, please don't be too hard on companies that are trying to develop products for our very small and limited platform.

[Astro]

Besides, JPP had Eric there making sure it went right.

[ReaDY-SeT-Go]

so are there any headers out there for a 5SFE solara? and where can we get them?