Well, that is not true. if it were then we could all go running straight
pipes w/o any loss of torque. Had a straight pipe on my 5.2 for about 2
weeks, and when I put my Flowtech muffler on, I gained a lot of low end.
I don'tt hink it will hurt in this app., but what they told you isn't
true.
Erich
fawcett@uism.bu.edu wrote:
>
> Thanks Jason.
>
> I was curious about that myself, the 2.5" in and 3" out thing... What
> their telling me is the larger pipes downrange from the muffler helps
> improve the exhaust sound. Does this make sense or am I just getting
> exhaust smoke blown up my ----??
>
> As a side note, I was also told the pipe diameter is only important up to
> the Cat... The theory was that all the "important" back pressure issues
> happen before/at the cat and everything after that was relatively
> unimportant. Again, I don't know... What do you think of that???
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