For those of you running shorties, what are ya runnin', and how they working out?

Thanks

 

I know some of you guys run shorties.

 

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Pay attention to what is not being said.

 

I get your point, just don't want to bolt up the stockers to my new head. I live in Cali. so they gotta be 50 states! I appreciate the feedback though

 

I have LT's and an ORY, I am also in Cali . I really feel that it is worth swapping them out every three years.

 

Isn't it every 2 yrs. for smog check?

 

I am running JBA's and like them a lot excellent quality and with the mufflex test pipes you can run without cats and put them on pretty easy for the smog test. putting down 415 all motor can't complain.

 

That is the way to do it. I still think a lot of the gain for LTs over shorties is that people with shorties keep their cats, while LT owners eliminate them or at the worst have larger high-flow cats. That is why there is such a performance difference.

 

My bad ... every two years.

 

Forget shorties. Go with LT or midlengths at least.

 

i thought i was going in for smog this year(my second year) but am not called for untill 2006, which will be 3 years.

When the time comes, i will be looking for a shop to overlook the headers

 

JBAs. They're good quality but might as well be stock manifolds. Only making 356whp with TR224 cam and tune.. I know another guy with my same mods making the same power here.. Im assuming the JBAs are our bottleneck

 

are the JBA's 1 3/4 or 1 5/8? i keep forgetting who makes the 1.75 shorties.

 

the JBA's are 1 5/8ths. Don't seem to bottleneck my setup very much. However my car peaks at only 5800. Don't want to switch to long tubes as it would be a waist of money since I am going single turbo in a year or two from PTK.

 

i think its BBK who makes the 1 3/4

 

I don't think the BBK's have a CARB# yet though.

 

and they don't make it for the year 00 for some reason? Must be different smog fittings.

 

With my TR224, I made 397whp and 387wtq.....get the LT and do it right, otherwise, start coming up with excuises on why you lost the race.

 

QUOTE:With my TR224, I made 397whp and 387wtq.....get the LT and do it right, otherwise, start coming up with excuises on why you lost the race.

He lives in california and can't/doesn't want to do longtubes, hence the question. No offense, but you aren't helping. Everyone knows longtubes make more power. California sucks.