Hooker Shorties!
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Sounds to me like you did alright with the deal and as long as you are happy with the car's performance, life is good.
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Yeah, for $200 those are good looking shorties, and your cars sounds like a really fun driver.
My car already sounds cool, (IMHO, lol) and with a 6 speed and 4.10 gears it’s pretty quick. My interest in long tubes is more under the curve power augmenting my heads and midrange cam for street-only driving. For less than $600, I’m looking at Speed Eng. LT’s and X-pipe. HP is just expensive these days, so the value in the shorties isn’t there for me at list price.
I’ve had shorties and tune on a previous C5, and I didn’t really find much benefit. In the years since test after test, including Engine Masters, Holdener, etc., have indicated shortys provide little or no increase in power. Just my observations and personal experience.
My car already sounds cool, (IMHO, lol) and with a 6 speed and 4.10 gears it’s pretty quick. My interest in long tubes is more under the curve power augmenting my heads and midrange cam for street-only driving. For less than $600, I’m looking at Speed Eng. LT’s and X-pipe. HP is just expensive these days, so the value in the shorties isn’t there for me at list price.
I’ve had shorties and tune on a previous C5, and I didn’t really find much benefit. In the years since test after test, including Engine Masters, Holdener, etc., have indicated shortys provide little or no increase in power. Just my observations and personal experience.
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Clip of a cold start. Definitely louder than stock manifolds. Didn't rev it because my neighbors were having a baby shower outside. I just moved here, so I didn't want to be "that guy" lol.
Also I was incorrect on the dyno numbers it's 421@ 5200 /447 @ 4900. Apologies!
Also I was incorrect on the dyno numbers it's 421@ 5200 /447 @ 4900. Apologies!
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The plot thickens boys! Just got a set of 1 3/4 kooks longtubes with catted x-pipe off a buddy for 800. Wasn't looking for them but I couldn't turn it down. I hope to get them on in the next few weeks. I'll go get another dyno and be able to provide real world FACTUAL differences in gains between the 2!
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The plot thickens boys! Just got a set of 1 3/4 kooks longtubes with catted x-pipe off a buddy for 800. Wasn't looking for them but I couldn't turn it down. I hope to get them on in the next few weeks. I'll go get another dyno and be able to provide real world FACTUAL differences in gains between the 2!