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Tune before the last bolton is done...

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Old Apr 20, 2008 | 08:17 PM
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Well in a few weeks their is this big car show iam going to and i want all my boltons to be done with before the show...anyways the last thing i have to do is put long tubes headers, off road y pipe and cutout...i havent had the car tuned yet for the stuff i have done so i was going to send my computer out this week to get it tuned for everything... being that the show is just around the corner and will be putting the headers on in about two weeks and hope to get the computer back before the headers and ect are installed on the car.... will it be ok to drive the car around without the headers on the car but the computer is tuned for it????

Ps...these are pacesetter race style headers
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thanks Brandon
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Old Apr 20, 2008 | 08:28 PM
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won't hurt a thing.
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Old Apr 20, 2008 | 09:42 PM
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You'll be fine. Long tubes, although a very important and vital mod to making decent power, are not a "major mod" that would pose a problem without tuning. Now when it comes to big power adders such as boost and spray, thats when not having the proper tuning can become detrimental.
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Old Apr 21, 2008 | 08:19 AM
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ok well thanks guys iam going to send it out today
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Old Apr 21, 2008 | 01:50 PM
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have you been running around with an LT4 kit untuned? also what show are you going to?
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ha! for a second there i thought he you were talking about driving around with no headers or manifolds on the car. ?? idk but yea you'll be fine.
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Old Apr 21, 2008 | 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by sdm1234
have you been running around with an LT4 kit untuned? also what show are you going to?
yea i have been riding around with it untuned for a while now and iam going to the OC Car Show in Maryland the 15th-18th
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