# How hard is it to make custom Headers?

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [January 29, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-hard-is-it-to-make-custom-headers/42671 "2008-01-29T22:56:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Muscle50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@Muscle50](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Muscle50)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-hard-is-it-to-make-custom-headers/42671/11 "2008-01-30T06:44:53Z")

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> [@DrImodium"](#):
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> I was on another forum today searching through the engine conversion section and came across theses headers that a Texas based company sells for $2,850. That just seems CRAZY to me. Is this really the cost to make custom headers? There has got to be a way to replicate these for MUCH cheaper. Swap in question is an LS1 E36.
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> Who here has made custom headers? Is this the norm for something like this?

Supply & Demand  
Stainless Steel is expensive  
V band  
TIG welded  
All primaries are 1 piece mandrel bent  
Someone did the R&D work already

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