Driving on open headers?
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Staging Lane
Joined: Mar 2006
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From: Terre Haute, IN
Driving on open headers? I'm going to be finishing up my header install tonight. And I cannot make it to the exhaust shop until friday morning. Is driving the car going to be ok? What about WOT? The car will have front o2's in of course and the rear codes will be deleted. I just might wanna drive around with open long tubes tonight. hehe
Well driving alot without any sort of pipe off the header flange will kill your o2 sensors. Id at least put an extension pipe off the header. But I cant talk, I just drove my car to work today, open header'd.
the only thing you could run into having problem wise is burnt O2's but should be ok for one night and the only thing i see is your going to smell like exhaust and have a headache(maybe on the headache) and completely annoy everyone else. lol what a way to go i love it.
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Careful you don't smoke your 02's man. I drove around for 2 days maybe 25 to 30 miles and next thing I know i've got codes saying 02's are slow to respond on both banks. Had to buy two new ones.
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I dont know where your cutout is, but mine is right after my Y pipe, and open, its loud. But I yanked the exhaust off the car, and the Y pipe off, and open headers is 10000X louder than a open cut out. Im now changing my set up to a cut out after each header, then the Y pipe, and catback.
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Staging Lane
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 89
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From: Terre Haute, IN
tranny shakes like a ****! lol shifter *** shakes pretty bad at a certain rpm. Overall car its pretty loud and not too horrible to drive around with. It backfired a few times, but im sure thats from running rich from the o2's being too close to the fresh air.
