I've competed in some close exhaust competition, and was looking for the best exhaust system. In talking to Mr Gas, I was told the X pipe system would produce more hp then open headers, NOT TRUE!! I ran their whole exhaust system, their ( Wave Trap mufflers ) The system I first bought was
their 3" X pipe cross over..... into their 3" mufflers, and 3" out..... into 3" tail pipes. What a joke, you don't need to do much testing, it's simple, you make a run with the exhaust system on, then take it off. My car slowed down 5 Tenths with their system. When I call them they said oh, you need 3½" because your collectors are 3½, your reducing them to 3" an it's killing your torque, well then, why did they sell me the 3" X over pipe system then ? I went on what they recomended. Ok", so now I buy their 3½ X pipe set up, not cheap buy the way.
After reduing my whole exhaust system ( big dollars ) I made another trip to the track, guess what ? I still went 4 tenths faster with open exhaust. I call them again, ( get this, this time, the guy tells me himself that the Walker mufflers are actually better then there's ) each time the exhaust system was installed exactly to their spec.'s. the cross over was place exactly were they told me to install it. After talking to the guys who run Heads up classes ( which closed exhaust is a must ) this is what I ended up doing, I now run 3½" pipe into 3½" Walker Mufflers with " NO CROSS OVER" the same
mufflers they said were better then theirs, the car now runs the same with open headers, as with closed exhaust, no slower or faster.....go figure, and for haft the price.
David, racing NASCAR, and drag racing are two different things, the biggest market is Pro Street,and all those closed exhaust Heads Up Classes, if their system was what the said it was, they'd all have them on their cars, don't be suck in .
Tom, I know your a big seller of their systems, and your mainly looking for what's the quietest system out there for the street, you've even offer to sponsor me with one of their systems. I think it was a great offer. So if anyone wants to inpley that I'm just bad mouthing their system I got news for you,
I'll take anything that's for free, but not if it's going to slow my car down!.
I'm not telling anyone not to run their systems, but I have many guys who have installed their systems under the impression they would run as fast as open headers, not one ever did, now if you don't care about running as fast as open headers go buy their system. One more thing this Walker set up I
have on the car now is actually quieter.... go figure.
[This message has been edited by Gach (edited 06-17-2000).]
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