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[blazinzuk]

Are you running duals or do the pipes join at some point?

Right here



Unfortunately I cant seem to stop ripping the muffler off. It has many many dents.

 

[Bent77]

Dude,

You have a purple box

 

[campfire]

It needs stacks.. that's gonna solve every problem.. that and a 6.2 Detroit..

Open headers.

 

[campfire]

Dude,

You have a purple box

And here I was thinking he was irrationally attached to painting everything orange.

 

[wetoolowdingbangow]

Hmm I'm just not sure yet. I don't know if that turn I created is to abrupt for flow...don't need to make peak numbers but I also don't want to cause problems...

I wish I could make that turn a 3 inch but the room and length just isn't there. I could go under the trans adapter...

 

[skunked]

I would run the 90 the way you had it, just add some clearance.

 

[Bent77]

Yep /\

At 2.5" the pipe is too big that close to the primary anyway

 

[blazinzuk]

Here is the way I look at exhaust.

You don't want a restricted exhaust. I figured the massive dents I have put in several exhausts restricted my flow way more than a couple 90° bends. In addition to crushing mufflers and tailpipes I decided my main goal for my exhaust was to maintain decent flow and to prevent it from being hit. The bendy part of my exhaust has rarely been touched. When the rest is on its straight and easy to replace.

I truly think just about anything will free up flow vs factory and while it's nice to think your extracting every ounce of power your engine has a couple 90° bends aren't going to make a lick of difference.

Keep it up and out of the way. If you gotta put some funky stuff in it no biggie its gonna be way better than factory

 

[sreidmx]

Didn't you see the dented header video that engine masters put out? I think the flow is a concept that's hard to grasp because you automatically want to think of it being in a single direction but the dynamics of a gas and heat expansion changes the behavior so direction doesn't matter as much, also considered this bend is quite far down stream I wouldn't worry about it either.. mufflers made from square boxes claim to flow better even with flat plate perpendicular to the direction of said flow..
paralysis by analysis...

 

[campfire]

paralysis by analysis...

This. Tubing, flow rates, and flow restrictions are all great in theory. But your goal of having this thing running by summer 2016 is out the window. Pick something and go with it.

 

[campfire]

 

[skunked]

just thought I would mention something that I read yesterday on the FiTech paperwork.



We picked up a couple adapters since we don't want issue and there only $6 each

 

[F.S.F.W]

just thought I would mention something that I read yesterday on the FiTech paperwork.

View attachment 217836

We picked up a couple adapters since we don't want issue and there only $6 each

My RPM airgap saves me $6.00

 

[skunked]

My RPM airgap saves me $6.00

glad you saw that, forgot to tag ya. My wieand is very similar to Eric's vortec eddy manifold.

 

[wetoolowdingbangow]

Wow that's a trip...I must have skipped over that part!

 

[skunked]

Me and you both

 

[wetoolowdingbangow]

So they must want some silicone on one side of that adapter right?

 

[skunked]

It has two gaskets with it. We're installing it after lunch so I'll let ya know.

 

[F.S.F.W]

I haven't read the instructions yet. Lol

 

[sreidmx]

Is this done yet...