I have a 94 Dakota V8, I changed out my stock exhaust with a Flowmaster Cat back dual exhaust. Thats a 3 inch from the cat to the flowmaster, and dual 2 in pipes to the back. I am very happy with the performance increase, about 10-15 horses on my truck. I checked into headers, but found it would be too little bang for the buck. The Mopar chrome headers where $600 and only good for 5 horsepower. Evidently the stock manifolds work extremly well already. My advice, spend half the price of headers and buy the performance computer. Between the computer, the cat back exhaust, and a K&N Filter, I'm at 250 hp. Unfortunatly I had to upgrade wheels and tires to put the extra power to use.
Next is limited slip diff. That should drop my 1/4 mile time into the high 14's.
Hope this helps...
Alan acasey@io.com 94 Dakota V8 1/4=15.5s ET=88.9mph
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From: Glenn S. Wiltse[SMTP:iggy@merit.edu]
Sent: Monday, September 09, 1996 4:51 AM
To: dakota@csclub0.cs.fredonia.edu
Subject: Re: Dual Exhaust for 93 Dakota
I don't have any answers for you, I have similar questions and maybe
a comment or two...
I am interested in finding out about options that may be available
for a legal dual exaust system, preferably with headers... Does anyone
sell such a system? Mopar? It seems to me that you should be able to
put two cataletic converters on a truck...
I too don't see the sense in dual exaust and one Cat, or even a 3"
cat back system...
On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Michael Clark wrote:
> I own a 93 Dakota with the 318 V8. I love the engine but I would like
> to have a dual exhaust system for it instead of the factory single. I
> have talked to some muffler shops who said that it would be an EPA
> violation to dual it out before the converter. Everyone says they can
> do it behind the converter, but what good is that? It would still be
> single exhaust because the headers come together in a single pipe. Is
> it possible to buy custom headers and have a truly dual system ? If so
> where?
>
> I live in Texas if state law has anything to do with it.
>
> Any suggestions will help me out alot.
>
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