DesignTech@worldnet.att.net wrote:
>
> doesn't anyone out there have a true dual exhaust system like i do??
>
> the factory plumbing to the cat is the part you have to get rid of, it has
> a kink in it. i trashed the whole system and started over new with two 2.5"
> pipes, 2 cats and 2 one piece turbos, and to top it off with 2 3" chrome
> tips
>
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Unfortunately in CA. if you have a vehicle with 1-CAT, you cannot
put 2-CAT's on (per the Smog folks I have spoken to). YOU MIGHT get
a referee to give you an exemption, but good luck.
Secondly, that funny like crushed pipe, was compensated for in
the stock exhaust manifolds..(Kukukooter is the 'eggspert'...) From
what
I understand, the driver's side flows @ 104% of a 340, and the passenger
side flows @ 95% of a 340 manifold (a great manifold). Why a
difference??
Possibly to offset the crimp in the driver's side Y- pipe... The right
side and left side are supposed to have the same (or near so) flow...And
by removing the crimp, the left side (driver's side) would have much
more
than the right (passenger)...It might be a little weird in real life,
but
on paper it wouldn't be desireable.
Then you get into the situation of too little back-pressure (which
I am very close to now), and exhaust power-pulses, etc. etc... Then how
the
computer 'LIKES' to see things, and how much it can learn, etc. etc..
WHEW!
If you REALLY want to fabricate an exhaust for a Dakota, that's out
of this world (both in performance and COST, well cost isn't that bad),
talk
to ED HANSEN... Probably the best performance exhaust fabricator in the
business...
..Sam '95 SLT (one-PIPE)
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