Re: accessary exhaust and the torque curve

[Eric Sheley <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Uh oh - he's out of control and replying to his own messages....

I forgot to add, that the performance increase is dependant on having the
new tune installed and making sure that the CO level is properly set.
Otherwise all bets are off.....

- - Eric

>Low end should show a big improvement, with the amount of improvement
>tapering off the farther up the curve you get. The reason for this is as
>follows. The stock exhaust with stock tune has more restrictions to meet
>drive by sound requirements and emissions levels and most of these
>restrictions are at the lower rpm level. This as you can imagine does not
>make for optimum performance, but it does make them street legal. When the
>"for race only" pipe is fitted, these requirements go out the window and
>the pipe can be tuned for its best performance - the biggest gains being
>seen where the biggest restrictions were before ......
>
>plus it will make a little more noise....


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