X,h,or Open Headers?????
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X,h,or Open Headers????? My question is this I have a 382, at the track I remove the caps off the headers when I run. Would I pick up power with a H or X pipe or am I better of doing what Im doing? 
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Car is street &strip the only time its open headers is at the track,or when the I want to **** some people off in the hood.Im runnin the flp headers with the off road pipe with cutouts before the y pipe.
Originally Posted by RrCoX22
backpressure and burning your O2's out is the only problem with open headers
and that fact that you need earplugs
and that fact that you need earplugs
Not really backpressure as much as no velocity/scavenging.
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Originally Posted by orangeapeel
Not really backpressure as much as no velocity/scavenging.
backpressure is more involved when the pipe is kinked
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From: Philly
Originally Posted by Tainted
X pipe will make the best possible power. at least with the x pipe it can balance uot the flow and as tis been said, help with scavening
i've only seen one graph of a car dynoed with an h-pipe and then an x-pipe. it was a mustang. the h-pipe **** all over the x-pipe. unfortunately, no one ever backs up their claims as to which is better. the reason why people praise x-pipes on this site is because that's what everyone has. nobody has proof they are better and they only get x-pipes because that's what most people have. i guarantee you if TSP made their system with an h-pipe instead of an x-pipe, people would praise the h-pipe. your best bet is to try each of them dumped and dyno each. Lord knows they're cheap enough. i'd put my money on the h-pipe making average higher power per rpm.
Last edited by ChocoTaco369; Sep 10, 2006 at 10:31 PM.
