i did not know that
i do get pulses, but it is cool
if you put one hand over the end of one pipe, and one over the other, you
can feel the pulses going back and forth from side to side..
that is COOL!
and it runs like a mofo
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> From: Sam <samp@cts.com>
> To: dakota@sseg.ait.fredonia.edu
> Subject: Re: 2" exhaust system?
> Date: Thursday, February 06, 1997 6:15 PM
>
> 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
> >
> > ----------
>
> 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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