RE: Re: Shorty vs. Long-tube headers

From: STRICKLAND, Tate (tstricklan@shl.com)
Date: Sat Jul 18 1998 - 19:52:44 EDT


I assure you that with maybe a couple of trailered exceptions, each
and every truck on talked about on this list is streetable. Hauled a
bunch of stuff over to my dad's the other day - went to the track last
night (oil pressure oddity and o2 sensor error code be damned) didn't
have the traction bars adjusted correctly yet - I'll get there. Good
news is that I was smoking the tires (tire - 3:21 single trac :-) ) in
second with my 5 spd - that didn't happen before the Magnecors and
throttle body work - wooohooo! Before, I only got a healthy chirp.
 Ran a 17.5 - hahahaha! Next and final run, I ran a 16.186 - my best
time ever - and that was babying it big time off the line. She's up
on jackstands in my dad's garage right now waiting for me to get off
work and complete the MP header and y-pipe install - two more hours
and I can start wrenchin' again. I'll need to drive her to a muffler
shop to get the collector welded to the pipe upstream from the cat -
any danger in driving it like that for any length of time? Just
headers and a y?

Tate "DML boy racer" Strickland :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Hoopgj@aol.com [SMTP:Hoopgj@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, July 17, 1998 6:10 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Re: Shorty vs. Long-tube headers

In a message dated 7/17/98 8:25:22 AM Central Daylight Time,
rlr@rtp-bosch.com
writes:

<< This is the rub. My Dakota is my daily driver, plus unlike the
DML boy
 racers, I actually use my truck as a truck. Hence my desire to keep
the
 torque peak at a somewhat manageable (i.e. streetable) RPM range, and
still
 allow ground clearance and room to work. >>

Race on Saturday......haul cords of firewood, concrete, stone, or
lumber on
Sunday. Just cause we race them doesn't mean that they arent still
work
trucks. Just get there faster. HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
George



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