I've been on this board for awhile now. I've done alot of researching and looking at numerous peoples dyno sheets. There a ton of people on this forum and on others with long tubes claiming gains of 15-25 rwhp from long tubes alone. Come on. You can look at plenty of peoples mods list and dyno sheets putting the same hp to ground to the ground with couple bolt ons, off-road x-pipe, cat-back as the ones with the long tubes and off-raod xpipe and cat-back.
The 80% of the gains people are seeing are from off-road x-pipe and off-road h-pipe.
Now you got a guy that just put long tubes, x-pipe and flows on his car he gets a dyno of 260rwhp, hes excited. So sinceh esp ut the money on the long tubes and the labor he thinks to himself, he spent alot of money it was worth it. But what the guy doesn't know, that is if he had a off-road x-pipe, cat-back and put the stock shorties back, there probaly won't be but at the most 5rwhp difference.
I'm making this post, casue there basically is a daily thread on mac long tubes, hooker long tube, and bbk long tubes. Unless your blown, don't waste the $500 on labor for the long tubes, and the $350-$700 for the Headers themselves.
Josh
The 80% of the gains people are seeing are from off-road x-pipe and off-road h-pipe.
Now you got a guy that just put long tubes, x-pipe and flows on his car he gets a dyno of 260rwhp, hes excited. So sinceh esp ut the money on the long tubes and the labor he thinks to himself, he spent alot of money it was worth it. But what the guy doesn't know, that is if he had a off-road x-pipe, cat-back and put the stock shorties back, there probaly won't be but at the most 5rwhp difference.
I'm making this post, casue there basically is a daily thread on mac long tubes, hooker long tube, and bbk long tubes. Unless your blown, don't waste the $500 on labor for the long tubes, and the $350-$700 for the Headers themselves.
Josh