Sorry to be coming back with a "I can't believe you can't smoke the
tires..." type of reply, but can you really tell no difference in
performance? Other people have made similar posts about no
performance increase, so I don't doubt your opinion at all.
May I ask - do you often go to WOT when driving your truck? Driving
habits in general? The magazine article that another member refered
to (Mopar Action, I think) was talking about good hp and torque gains
from these headers.
The performance gains from the MP headers and Y-pipe were quite
noticeable - maybe with a Y-pipe, your gains would be more noticeable
too - who knows.
Tate
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Burgess [SMTP:ax778@lafn.org]
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 1998 12:00 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Cc: bwnicks@ibm.net
Subject: DML: re:JBA and the burning rubber smell
I too, have noticed a hot rubber smell, but have no idea where it
comes
from. I constructed heat shields/reflectors out of some 2"
spacecraft
aluminum tape (Scotch #425 7118-5-4) by the AC "freon" hoses, and the
vacuem booster for the brakes. Nothing should be getting that hot,
but
it sure makes the garage smell. (I'll check the reat of that AC
hose)
I also flunked the butt dyno test, no noticable difference. Gas
mileage
went up about 1.5 mpg. I have about 1,000 miles on the headers now,
installed by JBA themselves. I just gotta find the goofey socket and
fittings to get in there to re-torque it.
'98 CC 2x4 auto LSdiff Tire&Handling 318 V-8
Mike
--
" I am confident that the Republican Party will pick a
nominee that will beat Bill Clinton in 2000. "
former V.P. Dan Quayle
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