2.5 inch exhaust too restrictive??
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2.5 inch exhaust too restrictive?? I have a stock LS6 with some bolt ons and I'm guessing it will be putting out around 450-470 hp. I'm trying to finish up my install and my existing exhaust is 2.5 inch from my old gen I engine. Should I pony up the cash and put in 3 inch exhaust? Will the 2.5 inch be too restrictive? What do you guys think and why?
You mean a single 2.5" exhaust or dual 2.5"? If it's a single exhaust then holy **** yes that will be restrictive. That's smaller than the stock exhaust on an LS1. Dual 2.5" is more than enough for power levels under 500 or so.
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Really? The funny thing is I do have 40 series flowmasters... damn, they gotta be 10 years old though. That's another reason I was debating on new exhaust. Sounded good when I parked the beast
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I'll have to check those out, I definitely don't want something quiet. Thanks for the suggestions guys..
Anyone else? Looks like the money I save on keeping the 2.5" exhaust may be going toward mufflers eventually
Anyone else? Looks like the money I save on keeping the 2.5" exhaust may be going toward mufflers eventually
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How fast are you going? 3" worked the best for me. Anything less backed the motor up. Backpressure is not good I do not care what anyone says. Bullit mufflers never hurt my times but a full exhaust added 3/10's.
i like flowmasters, honest some of there stuff sounds great, on a dual set up i dont think swapin the flowmasters out will gain you anything, imo i have duals with sweet thunders and i love them , loud and sound great,i think the chambered style sounds best on the ls motors
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I'm guessing it will be around 450 at the flywheel with all the smog BS taken off, long tube headers/full exhaust, dyno tuned, cold air intake. Not sure though. I just stared getting into the LS scene after my old 350 went south a year ago
I could see 2.5" crush bent exhaust being a restriction. You would probably pick up more going to mandrel bent pipe and either and X crossover or an H if you don't have room, then by switching mufflers. If you want new mufflers too the Magnaflow 4x9's are definitely quieter then flowmaster 40's, atleast at idle and cruise speeds.
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There was a site years back that had flow numbers for all popular mufflers.
The whole flowmaster line at best beat stock mufflers by 15% better flow numbers, but they we less than louvered cherry bomb types.
The best were race bullets, ultra flow type mufflers followed by the rest which all flow double a stock one which average 180 CFM.
The problem with blowmaster is shown right in there advertising.
Redirecting exhaust gases to use sound to cancel sound.
Everything your taught about exhaust says the straightest path is the best.
The smoother the turns the better and so on.
Kinda goes against it doesn't it.
Some people say its sounds cool and I can tell a flowmaster system from quite a distance, it has a echo tin sound like no other! Its sounds fake!
The whole flowmaster line at best beat stock mufflers by 15% better flow numbers, but they we less than louvered cherry bomb types.
The best were race bullets, ultra flow type mufflers followed by the rest which all flow double a stock one which average 180 CFM.
The problem with blowmaster is shown right in there advertising.
Redirecting exhaust gases to use sound to cancel sound.
Everything your taught about exhaust says the straightest path is the best.
The smoother the turns the better and so on.
Kinda goes against it doesn't it.
Some people say its sounds cool and I can tell a flowmaster system from quite a distance, it has a echo tin sound like no other! Its sounds fake!
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Trying to get an idea of what they sound like... I figure I'll do a cam down the road, but not for a while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q851F8GVe78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Mk7LyQzac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BL891mGHY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q851F8GVe78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Mk7LyQzac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BL891mGHY