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Old Jun 14, 2009 | 08:16 PM
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Is it ok to drive around all the time with my cutout open? Someone told me that driving with an open cutout is like driving with open headers, and I risk burning a valve. So I was just wondering if it was safe to drive around with an open cutout all the time.
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Old Jun 14, 2009 | 08:20 PM
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yes it is. if you have long tube headders you could take the y pipe off and even that is enough back pressure on the heads to keep from burning a valve. cold air being sucked back in to the motor is how valves get burned.

on a side note I have a 96Z with mac mid headders and my cutout fell off one night and i've been running it like that for 6 months with no problems.
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Old Jun 14, 2009 | 08:25 PM
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the hot exhaust pipe will heat the air up before it gets to the valves
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Old Jun 14, 2009 | 10:13 PM
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There's plenty of cars out at HRP rolling around with open headers, and they are not worried about it. i think you'll be fine.
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Old Jun 14, 2009 | 10:21 PM
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yep you'll be fine. ran my camaro with lt's and no cats with a cut out for 4 years with no problems.
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Old Jun 14, 2009 | 10:28 PM
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run with my cutout open most of the time never had any problems
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Old Jun 14, 2009 | 10:36 PM
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same here, cutout open all the time and no problems.
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I know this is a shot in the dark, but would anyone happen to have a video or soundclip of their ls1 with lt, ory, and cutout? I want to get a good idea of what mine is going to sound like when i get it back. Lol.
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I'll have my brother take a vid of his and post it tomorrow. He has pacesetter lt's with a 12" dynomax bullitt. sound of the idle may vary since he has the Z06 cam.
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I run mine open, Sounds good and no problems.
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I have an electric cutout and only closed it when I was pulling into my neighborhood just to be respectful. On the streets it's always open.
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The only problem is...the **** gets annoying to you the older you are.
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Originally Posted by ZONES89RS
The only problem is...the **** gets annoying to you the older you are.
x2 after having it open for a while now, i used some washers so that its open about 1/4....sounds good.. to me
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Originally Posted by ZONES89RS
The only problem is...the **** gets annoying to you the older you are.


yes, and I use a lot of advil!
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As long as the cutout is far enough downstream, then it can't burn a valve.
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