Hmmmm..along those lines of thought...I wonder if I can get a bigger PCM??!?
;-P
Ron
00 SLT QC 4X2 5.9 46RE 3.92 LSD
For modifications see my DML Profile
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From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Doug Fedeli
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 11:22 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: DML: Re: RE: Re: Re: Spring clamps and headers question??
Ain't technology wonderful?
Doug Fedeli
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From: "Ronald Wong" <ron-wong@home.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 2:04 PM
Subject: DML: RE: Re: Re: Spring clamps and headers question??
> Then you get bigger injectors.
>
> Ron
> 00 SLT QC 4X2 5.9 46RE 3.92 LSD
> For modifications see my DML Profile
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Doug Fedeli
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 10:59 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Re: Re: Spring clamps and headers question??
>
>
> I just read a response in Sport Truck about losing MPG with headers. They
> said the improved scavenging with the headers and exhaust on carbed trucks
> will lean them out. You end up using more throttle for less performance
> until you richen it up. That shouldn't be a problem with our FI systems
> until you get to the point that the injectors can't keep up.
>
> Doug Fedeli
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven T. Ekstrand" <cyberlaw@earthlink.net>
> To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 1:28 AM
> Subject: DML: Re: Spring clamps and headers question??
>
>
> > | For all: also, did you lose MPG by putting on a set of headers/y-pipe?
> > | I was told I'd lose 5-7 just by bolting a set on...
> >
> > That is RIDICULOUS!!! Free flowing exhaust improves gas mileage.
> > Now...Sometimes people run too big of primaries and the engine runs
poorly
> > and looses low end. But that's not an issue with the trucks cause all
the
> > headers are short small tube crappy headers. NONE FLOW TOO MUCH!!!
> >
> > Remember that often you won't see much of a benefit from headers or in
> some
> > cases you may even run a LITTLE worse, if you've done no other mods.
> Think
> > system!
> >
> > You will always run into people who are Anti-Headers. They are simply
> > wrong! Sometimes headers simply aren't worth the pain and the cost.
> > That's a different issue.
> >
> > -STE
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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