RE: Re: Shorty vs. Long-tube headers

From: Jim, Donna, Erin, and Brian (leefam@wcc.net)
Date: Sat Jul 18 1998 - 20:38:25 EDT


At 04:52 PM 7/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>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 :-)
>

You shouldn't be in any health danger. On the other hand, you will scare
the crap out of small animals and old people. Oh well ;-). Open headers
are loud - VERY loud!! btw - Cops will notice this too, unfortunately, so
try to be as conspicuous as possible.

I don't 'member the stats on your truck, but 16.186 with 3.21 open is good.
 Next on the list should be a limited slip of some sort. Mine used to have
a single track - it made wet streets fun! =)

Brian



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