Re: V6 Exhaust

From: Scott Miller (kmiller@mail.cvn.net)
Date: Tue Sep 29 1998 - 17:42:54 EDT


God, I would love to race. I'll take my Shelby, which let me remind you is
rated at the same horsepower as that V6 and blow your doors off. Hey, I
don't mind spending money on Spark Plugs.

Later

Scott Miller
Shelby Dakota #322
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Bonanno <kevin_bonanno@harvard.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 5:39 PM
Subject: DML: V6 Exhaust

>Hey DML. I am new here, and have the V6. Aside from the ticks it's a great
>little motor. With just an open element air cleaner it can get serious
>rubber in 2nd gear and even chirp 3rd if theres a mustang around. It runs
>low 16's in the quarter. Looking through the archives I've seen exhaust for
>V6's discussed before but I still have questions... Will putting a
>Flowmaster muffler in place of the stock muffler take too much back
>pressure away making it a slug off the line? After putting the muffler on
>how long will the engine take to adjust itself to the new flow? Does it
>sound good or is it just loud like putting a cherrybomb on a slant six?
>will there be an actual performance increase or just a noise increase? Oh
>and any of you guys with V8s want to race? I might not win all the time but
>I love the looks on your faces when the little stock V6 keeps up, and with
>the money I save not buying two extra spark plugs... ;)
>Kevin Bonanno
>Harvard Planning and Real Estate
>Ph. 617.496.5778
>http://hpreweb.harvard.edu/
>



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