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Exhaust system backpressure
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<blockquote data-quote="scott degroot" data-source="post: 965408" data-attributes="member: 66039"><p>You can find backpressure testers all over the internet, they are relatively inexpensive. If you purchase one don't get the kind that screws into the oxygen sensor hole. The one I have I drill a 1/8" hole in front of the cat and insert the gauge into the exhasut there, it has about 10' of hose attached to the gauge so I can run it up into the car and go for a test drive with it...think it cost me $40 some years ago. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You are not going to get a tune written to cure your poor exhaust setup. Get the exhaust setup right and you'll be amazed by what it can do. Not to dis on you but you could also do better than the Flowmaster as far as a muffler goes, they sound allright but aren't the best for making power. Just remember that when building an exhaust bigger isn't alwasy better...99% of the people who redo their exhasut make this mistake but it sounds really good so they think that it makes more power...noise does not equal power.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If you didn't have a backpressure tester what makes you thinlk the cats were plugged??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scott degroot, post: 965408, member: 66039"] You can find backpressure testers all over the internet, they are relatively inexpensive. If you purchase one don't get the kind that screws into the oxygen sensor hole. The one I have I drill a 1/8" hole in front of the cat and insert the gauge into the exhasut there, it has about 10' of hose attached to the gauge so I can run it up into the car and go for a test drive with it...think it cost me $40 some years ago. You are not going to get a tune written to cure your poor exhaust setup. Get the exhaust setup right and you'll be amazed by what it can do. Not to dis on you but you could also do better than the Flowmaster as far as a muffler goes, they sound allright but aren't the best for making power. Just remember that when building an exhaust bigger isn't alwasy better...99% of the people who redo their exhasut make this mistake but it sounds really good so they think that it makes more power...noise does not equal power. If you didn't have a backpressure tester what makes you thinlk the cats were plugged?? [/QUOTE]
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