Re: Gibson Cat-back Exhaust.....

From: Bruce Aaron Hefner (gt9742a@prism.gatech.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 11 1997 - 09:09:56 EDT


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> Well, the split-fires probably don't do any harm, but they don't do any good either.
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> Pat Buthmann
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> From: Michael Clark [SMTP:mike@snakebite.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 1997 5:38 PM
> To: dakota@ait.fredonia.edu
> Subject: Re: Gibson Cat-back Exhaust.....
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> Sam Parthemer wrote:
> > Dyno your stock V8, and you will then see the real
> > numbers... I checked a stock
> > 5.9 ram against my truck (I didn't do a run on the dyno
> > until the mods.), and it put down
> > 180 hp down to the ground... Again, this was a stock
> > truck... So I am putting down
> > 32 more HP to the ground... Not a lot more, but enough for
> > me...

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> > Sam '95 SLT
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> Wow! this is wierd. I dyno my dak one day and the next time I check my
> email there is all this dyno-talk. Kinda Twilight Zoneish.... Yes I
> can see into the future, I see vortech, paxton... Oh I'm just dreaming
> again :-)
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> I think that mine might be the most "stock" dak to be dynoed to date. I
> only have two real performance mods and a colder tstat. I don't
> consider the Splitfires to be performace mods but I don't think they do
> any harm. Also mine is a '93 so my factory specs are 230hp and
> 285ft/lbs (I might be off on torque, can never remember that one)
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> Michael Clark mike@snakebite.com
> 93 Mark III 4X2 reg. cab SWB
> V8 auto MP SBEC K&N FIPK
OK guys, I was considering buying the Splitfires, but it sounds like
there is a little animosity towards them, so what's the verdict guys, are
they worth the dinero? I'd like to hear all of your opinions before I buy
them, thanx-

Bruce

 



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