Upgrade to long tubes or stay with shorties

BlownStangGT

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When I change my tranny, I am thinking of swapping in long tubes. I want to here from everyone whether it would be better for me to stay with my MAC Unequal lenght shorty headers or go ahead and find a set of Long tubes to help my car breath for the future, or are the shorties plenty for now until I get really serious with the motor?

 

90mustangGT

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I would, you could probally sell your Mac shorties for enough to make it worthwhile.

 

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What are your goals? If you want the most horse and are willing to put in a little work, go for it. If you want an easy exhaust keep what you have.

 

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if you're planning on more horsepower in the future go for the longtubes, plus they'll give your car a different tone also.

 

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I made 600 rwhp with shorties.

 

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Go ahead and do the longtubes for the future

David

 

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I think I will do the long tubes for the future, unless something happens....how much of a PITA will it be with the car ont he ground, I know we will have to jack the motor up, but is that crap hard or not? Just time consuming?

 

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I had shorties and a Catted Mac H... ran a 13.89 @ 98

Added LTs, and a prochamber, as well as pulleys... ran 13.05 @ 103

Go Long Tubes.

 

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25thmustang said:

I had shorties and a Catted Mac H... ran a 13.89 @ 98

Added LTs, and a prochamber, as well as pulleys... ran 13.05 @ 103

Go Long Tubes.

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that is just plain awsome!!! That makes up my mind!

 

Rick 91GT

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25thmustang said:

I had shorties and a Catted Mac H... ran a 13.89 @ 98

Added LTs, and a prochamber, as well as pulleys... ran 13.05 @ 103

Go Long Tubes.

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I'd atribute that to the the offroad/Prochamber and the pullies. A stock motor will not see as large of a gain with long tubes, they really come alive in the higher rpm and power adder cars.

BLWNSTG- If you want to change exhaust systems then I would do the long tubes and some type of Offroad pipe X or H. What about the new PA emissions laws.... May want to look into that before you waste money.

Just my $.02

 

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LT for sure !!!

Some one noted it will have a different tone... IS this tone a deeper tone ? would it make ur existing cam louder or have a different chopy sound to it?

 

25thmustang

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I am sure it was a combination of the mods, but I can only speak from what I did... and from my experience pulleys actually helped the charging, and those mods dropped .8 tenths.

 

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I'm planning the same swap this spring when i put a T5 back in my car. What LTs do you guys recommend? I'm thinking MAC for cheapness, and i've heard they go on and fit perfect without any problems you hear about with the steering shaft. One thing i know for sure, there are few things as evil sounding as a cammed stroker running open LTs. I've got a sound clip but have no way of posting it.

 

25thmustang

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Mine rub the steering shaft under a load, but I expected that with 130,000 mile motor mounts... I have Macs and for $100 (used) I cant beat them. Some surface rust but I dont have a show car.

 

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Rick 91GT said:

I'd atribute that to the the offroad/Prochamber and the pullies. A stock motor will not see as large of a gain with long tubes, they really come alive in the higher rpm and power adder cars.

BLWNSTG- If you want to change exhaust systems then I would do the long tubes and some type of Offroad pipe X or H. What about the new PA emissions laws.... May want to look into that before you waste money.

Just my $.02

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rick...yeah I know the emmision laws are coming I am still tossing the idea up in my head, I may jut wait till I look for heads/cam/intake and stuff then I can go ahead and go full out with the exhaust, this way I will have more money for the tranny swap right now