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Old 10-22-2006, 03:37 PM
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I have a 2001 formula with a Vig. 3600 and 3.23s with all the traction stuff including M/T tires. The car has a 1.63 60' and runs 12.20 @ 110. I have stock headers now. Will long tubes have anegative effect on my 60'?
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Nope - if anything, they'll help.
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they will help and tuning the car with them will be even better.
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LT's are only good..no bad lol

BTW..what are your mods that really fast without Lt's unless your running a cheater cam or sprayin or something
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That's the whole story as I described above. No cam , no spray..just the vig 3600, shift kit, custom program, pulley, gmafs, lid, smooth bellow, magnaflow catback, QA1s, Hotchkis Lower control arms, adjustable torque arm and M/T E.T. street drag radials.
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you have a vig 3600. what truely is "bottom end anyways? think about it. your converter flashes right past that
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Originally Posted by gator's 99TA
you have a vig 3600. what truely is "bottom end anyways? think about it. your converter flashes right past that

Sick Burn!

J/K

I drove Open LTs for 6 months, with a 3200 Conveter. Didnt seem like power was down at all.

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who needs bottom end? but seriously LT's dropped my ET by about .35
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Originally Posted by gator's 99TA
you have a vig 3600. what truely is "bottom end anyways? think about it. your converter flashes right past that
this is true. before i had my converter, my car was dog slow below 2600RPM, but ran great in the upper RPM range. The headers didn't even improve my et. The converter took care of that though .




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