Car feels like a pig...
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Re: Car feels like a pig...
I'll agree with almost every other response about this.. the car gained, you just can't feel it now..when I had my stang I upgraded the exhaust to the everpopular mustang exhaust- flowmaster and put on headers and I thought the same..where the hell is the power..I too felt like I had lost it but I now know more, LS1'S are deep breathers and with the automatic you will have to keep tuning as the mods increase.
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Re: Car feels like a pig...
I'll agree with almost every other response about this.. the car gained, you just can't feel it now..when I had my stang I upgraded the exhaust to the everpopular mustang exhaust- flowmaster and put on headers and I thought the same..where the hell is the power..I too felt like I had lost it but I now know more, LS1'S are deep breathers and with the automatic you will have to keep tuning as the mods increase.
I too used to have a mustang, 89' lx, I did the obligitory 2 chambers & off road H-pipe. The car didn't spin the tires as hard in 1st, but nailed 2nd & 3rd way harder. So I guess I can see that as a good comparison to my LS1.
Hopefully I get it to the track Wed and see what it is doing. On a side note - the car has seemed to pick up some MPG since the exhaust. I'm avg'ing 20-30 more miles to a tank when I keep my foot out of it.
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Re: Car feels like a pig...
Well, I have a small update... Was drivng the car in traffic w/ the radio off and the windows down today. Kept hearing a slight banging sound. I decided to go back to my exhaust guy and have him throw it on the lift. The very back of my y-pipe was up against that cheesy factory brace on the underside of the car. It had worn a small groove in the Y pipe and a notch in the brace. We took the brace off and gave it some "clearance." I'm thinkng I might have been getting a small amount of false KR.
The bad news is because I had to wait so long for him to get a chance to look at it - I didn't make it to the track. Oh well, there's always next week.
The bad news is because I had to wait so long for him to get a chance to look at it - I didn't make it to the track. Oh well, there's always next week.