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Yes sir! Doubles as a seat heater :lol:

 

Nothing like coming of redline at night and seeing the blue cone light up the road in your side view mirror...

 

Haha that's wicked. I know that my Z backfires when coming off higher rpms but I don't know whether or not anything can be seen projecting outward of the tail pipes haha

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... pretty darn close to straight pipes ...

 

"Twice pipes with glasspacks and no cat. " - youtube description

 

That's going to be noticeably quieter and less harsh than just straight pipe(s).

I am curious though, how the tone, volume and harshness would compare between dual straight pipes (2" or 2.25 or something) and a single straight pipe (2.5" or 3") on an N/A. Is it about the same, or do they sound pretty different?

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Videos of an open 6-1 header on my 3.1L

 

First drive on the new motor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BXs1svOc5s

 

First start up doing timing and such:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHAyvZ5CR5k

 

Just a month ago or so, motor is broken in by now idle at 1300 RPM no video since I heard sirens where I was at after I had gotten home, don't want people to know :P:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbcs-Ar_eZs

 

With a 3" pipe and muffler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asM-MVAg9LA

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So speaking of straight pipes, I know old IMSA NA Z's had like megaphone tips on their dual 2.5" pipes correct? This is a big time aid in the scavenging effect so here comes the question, for my motor (the larger ones of our L6's) with the ported head and moderately radical cam I have a Cyclone header fixing to go on:

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Courtesy of Frank Honsowetz How to Modify your Nissan/Datsun OHC Engine

 

This sort of applies to both open pipes and a muffler of some sort, do you run the two collectors into one 2.5" pipe, maybe 3" pipe, or do you run dual 2.25" pipes. If you want each firing cylinder to alternate collectors (1-2-3 and 4-5-6 per collector firing order 1-5-3-6-2-4) to air in the scavenging effect, then I'm not sure why you would merge the two collectors into one pipe. Doesn't that just make your 6-3-2 header into a 6-3-2-1 AKA 6-1 header pretty much..? I see Zredbaron has a single 2.5" pipe and his head is from Sunbelt so the port job is of high quality, but then I heard somewhere from like Rebello or someone else who had a 3.2L that said a 3" pipe is essential. Right now my 3" pipe gives me a deep tone and at idle there is zero rasp to the idle, its more like all one tone. I would like to infer that if you can't hear a the raspiness/cylinder firing in the exhaust then that could generally mean your pipe is too big and those exhaust pulses are just mingling with each other in the pipe before they exhaust so what you hear is a purrrr rather than a lumpy sort of tone.

 

Cancel all that talk, searchy searchy is your friend! :/ Should have known that by my own signature, shame on me.

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