Are my shorties holding me back?
10-20-2004, 04:09 PM
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Are my shorties holding me back? I just got done with my head swap, stage 2 5.3L. I also have a TR 224, well i have had the cam in for a while. I can feel a small increase in power from the heads, but not too much, not rearly as much as I thought I would. Is it because I havn't tuned the car yet? I got the car tuned after the cam, but not after the heads. I also think it might be because I have JBA shorties and not LT's. Am I losing a lot of power out of my H/C cause of the shorties? how much? I'm wondering if I should order some pacesetters and throw them on before I get the car tuned.
Any input would help as always.
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Jermzz
Any input would help as always.
thanks.
Jermzz
10-20-2004, 04:36 PM
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The difference between the stock exhaust when it was back on and my Mac midlength setup is nothing short of amazing - I would speculate that the same would hold true for shorties vs. LTs, especially with a heads/cam setup.
I didn't expect it to be such a drastic difference, especially in the top end.
I would think I could even gain a little more by swapping to LTs (I got my Mac's several years ago used for super-cheap, and swapped in 3" carsound cats).
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I didn't expect it to be such a drastic difference, especially in the top end.
I would think I could even gain a little more by swapping to LTs (I got my Mac's several years ago used for super-cheap, and swapped in 3" carsound cats).
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10-20-2004, 04:57 PM
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So tuning and Lt's are going to give me quite a bigger jump in power then just the heads did alone without being tuned, right? But it will all go together once its done.
10-20-2004, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by jermzz
So tuning and Lt's are going to give me quite a bigger jump in power then just the heads did alone without being tuned, right? But it will all go together once its done.
10-20-2004, 05:46 PM
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Get that thing tuned it is the key to getting what you want from that motor.The header are holding you backalso but I would think the tune would be more important.
