you're able to buy obsolete limited production parts brand new and whining about having to work them a bit? wonder how many folks could afford -or find- the originals?

Bill
Let me get this straight. You pay hundreds of dollars for a set of cast Fenton headers and get back a casting that is only 1/16" thick in some places, and you call that whining?
What do you think is going to happen in not very long a period of time? That 1/16" thin spot is going to burn thru. I'd say that's a pretty good reason to be upset.