Just want to get an idea of the % of people who have had problems with the OBX headers cracking.

 

They cracked after a few months and I had a though time getting them to fit....

 

that's what you get for being stingy and not buying comptech. hate to say it.

 

Bottom Line:
Comptech Headers: problems extremely rare if any at all. Plus good warranty coverage.

OBX: Few reported problems, no warranty.

 

OBX SS user here. It's been over a year since install and still looking good.

 

Thanks for all the feedback guys.. keep it coming. I know OBX has been known to crack, but I want to know exactly how bad this problem is. As you can see in my sig, I have OBX headers I haven't installed yet... if this poll shows something like 50% of the users here have had the headers crack in less than a year, I think I'll probably just resell them and save up for CTs.

 

Mine have a small crack in the center pipe on the front manifold and i had to replace my flex pipe last month cause that cracked and it sounded really bad like i lost a couple of bolts off the pipe.

 

I think i was the second person with a crack in my OBX headers about 1.5 years ago. It was a CHIP not a CRACK. It was on the rear center tube. It has an annoying "clicking" sound from the exhuast leak. Called OBX up for warranty, they gave me BS and didn't replace.

But afterwards I realized that it may not be back workmanship.

It may be due to our bad trannies....and the hard jolts on your engine/headers when the tranny shifts from 5th to 2nd gear. The force was hard enough to break our front motor mounts. So my theory is that it may be cause by the tranny and not bad work

Can anyone confirm/agree?

 

My car doesn't jolt during shifts unless I'm flooring it w/o having the engine warmed up.

If this theory were true, wouldn't CT headers be affected too? I haven't heard anyone here have problems w/ CT headers.. but then again, I don't think a ton of people here have CT headers?

 

Jolts from the "bad defective trannies", not the ones that are still good.