After two drives, it was absolutely worth the extra money. I was lucky and found a set of very lightly used ceramic coated Cargraphic headers online for a great price and will be selling my Top Gear headers to a friend. If you look at the equal length Fabspeed headers, they have much shorter primaries which can give some increased power in the low-mid range but you lose the top end power gains. They do sound fantastic but part of the fun with these NA engines is wringing it out and I would hate to lose some power in the top end. Another less important reason is that when I change spark plugs with catless headers, I don't need to remove the actual headers anymore (this is true with probably most catless setups). Fabspeed's design would make it pretty hard to torque down spark plugs whereas the Cargraphic design gives a lot of room for a torque wrench to be used at the 6 o'clock position.
@@wout-janwaslander2555 I did see those as well but there wasn’t much as far as sound clips that I could find outside of one dyno run on a 981 GTS. The design is also a little funky with more bends in the primaries. I’m not sure how long GT racing has been making headers but Cargraphic has been making headers for Porsches for quite a while so I had a bit more trust in the build quality.
Sounds great! Worth the extra buck compare to the top gear ones? And out of curiousty, why these instead of the equal length fabspeed ones?
After two drives, it was absolutely worth the extra money. I was lucky and found a set of very lightly used ceramic coated Cargraphic headers online for a great price and will be selling my Top Gear headers to a friend. If you look at the equal length Fabspeed headers, they have much shorter primaries which can give some increased power in the low-mid range but you lose the top end power gains. They do sound fantastic but part of the fun with these NA engines is wringing it out and I would hate to lose some power in the top end. Another less important reason is that when I change spark plugs with catless headers, I don't need to remove the actual headers anymore (this is true with probably most catless setups). Fabspeed's design would make it pretty hard to torque down spark plugs whereas the Cargraphic design gives a lot of room for a torque wrench to be used at the 6 o'clock position.
Thanks! Are you also familiar with the European Racing Headers / GT-racing?
Any thoughts on those? Seems like equally length for a better price.
@@wout-janwaslander2555 I did see those as well but there wasn’t much as far as sound clips that I could find outside of one dyno run on a 981 GTS. The design is also a little funky with more bends in the primaries. I’m not sure how long GT racing has been making headers but Cargraphic has been making headers for Porsches for quite a while so I had a bit more trust in the build quality.