Open headers for long periods...
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Open headers for long periods... Is it bad for your engine? I'm patiently waiting to get my TSP TD set up in and i absolutely HATE my freaking exhaust. I just installed an MS4 cam and I really only drive my car to and from work. About 10 miles total daily.
I'm wondering if i should just go ahead and whack the **** exhaust off until i get my duals in. Hopefully it will be w/in the next week or so.
what do you guys think?
I'm wondering if i should just go ahead and whack the **** exhaust off until i get my duals in. Hopefully it will be w/in the next week or so.
what do you guys think?
Shouldn't hurt. I had to wait a week for my exhaust. I drove around with just a ory pipe and had nothing but a O2 sensor code.
For weeks at a time I ride with the cut out open and haven't had any problems with that either.
For weeks at a time I ride with the cut out open and haven't had any problems with that either.
if you can handle the noise, then go for it. You run a slight chance of messing up a front o2, but if your only doing 10ish miles a day for a week, i think you will be fine. Your neighbors will freaking hate you, but you wont do any serious damage.(well maybe to your eardrums). 
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Well i just got off the phone with TSP and they said it would be at least another 2 weeks before they shipped my exhaust. Fine by me. as I said, i really only drive it to and from work.
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Originally Posted by Blk97WS6
if you can handle the noise, then go for it. You run a slight chance of messing up a front o2, but if your only doing 10ish miles a day for a week, i think you will be fine. Your neighbors will freaking hate you, but you wont do any serious damage.(well maybe to your eardrums).
Make up two 16" extensions for the collectors and you'll be ready to go. If you don't the car will run like ****. Enjoy the sound, my neighbors love when I fire my car up on Sundays at 6am. 
Originally Posted by GM Muscle
Make up two 16" extensions for the collectors and you'll be ready to go. If you don't the car will run like ****. Enjoy the sound, my neighbors love when I fire my car up on Sundays at 6am.
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No man, I havnt even started it yet. Doing that once I get hom and put the pulley on and radiator back in. I just dont want the exhaust on there anymore because it sounds liike ****!
So can u use pieces of my y-pipe for the extensions? Why would an open extension make a diff?
So can u use pieces of my y-pipe for the extensions? Why would an open extension make a diff?
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Originally Posted by tuffass
No man, I havnt even started it yet. Doing that once I get hom and put the pulley on and radiator back in. I just dont want the exhaust on there anymore because it sounds liike ****!
So can u use pieces of my y-pipe for the extensions? Why would an open extension make a diff?
So can u use pieces of my y-pipe for the extensions? Why would an open extension make a diff?
Extending the headers a little bit will help to creat more backpressure. and yes you can make extensions using the old y-pipe, as long as its the same diameter.if not just run to a home depot or something. 
I'm currently using the peices of my y pipe that weren't crushed by the biggest freaking hill in all of the carolinas as my header extensions. I have a TSP ORY and I took off the part where the two 3 inch pipes come into a single 3 inch pipe and turned the extensions 180* on the collector. I call it mullet side pipes.
AJ
AJ
Originally Posted by ArrestMeRed99Z28
I'm currently using the peices of my y pipe that weren't crushed by the biggest freaking hill in all of the carolinas as my header extensions. I have a TSP ORY and I took off the part where the two 3 inch pipes come into a single 3 inch pipe and turned the extensions 180* on the collector. I call it mullet side pipes.
AJ
AJ
------new smilie!Any pics of that set-up.