I have yet to see a set of long tubes that are 50 state legal =
(emissions
wise) so if you care about passing inspection shorties are the way to
go. I have long tubes on my other car and it will cost me 300 clams to
"pass" smog here in California. Everything is a trade off.
BTW, I ordered the JBAs with ceramic coating $413 includes shipping and
tax. Jeff is a cool guy to deal with. He said I should get them by end
of first week in august. He also mentioned that they will fabricate a
few sets of pipes to the cats (R/T only). Those should be ready in a
month or so. Bruce, please bring you truck back so they can make the
measurements!
Alan
Alan Mok =AE
Systems Engineer
X3396
'88 x-CHP Mustang LX (off to the glue factory)
'89 Mustang GT (347, Griggs, S-trim and the list goes on...)
'98 Dakota R/T (360ci to be unleashed)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Bridges [mailto:bbridges@alarismed.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 1998 4:58 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Yet another new member
Hey guys,
Mike is right in a technical sense. long headers are
great for all out
racing. They are expensive (mild steel hookers for my
cuda were 567.00
coated) they also have some serious drawbacks on the
road. They scrape
(remember they were designed for racing. no bumps on
the 1/4 mile after the
front wheels hit the ground. Ive had a couple different
skid plates
installed in the last 3500 miles. They make quite an
interesting racket (I
kinda like it but its not subtle). They are in the way
of everything (my
crosslink is routed through a couple of tubes.) AND,
performance gains are
not significant over shorty style headers if you are not
WOT (IMHO and
others HO). Im still trying to get some more data on
the short vs. long
controversy since most mfgs are doing shorty style for
the new vehicles. I
consider my long headers Junky due to the massive
problems they cause in day
to day street driving, which is what I built my cuda
for. Im probably going
to keep them since I paid so much, but theyve already
worn through twice...
Bruce
At 07:04 PM 7/16/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-07-16 01:21:57 EDT, you write:
>
><< I'll put on some good, long headers (not the junky
shorties that
> people are signing on to buy now) >>
>Oooookay!!
>Eric
>
>
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