Reply to "Dyno'd the Car, Please Critique."

Thanks for the pics Plankton, I would be really curious to see the gains since gutting the mufflers, is that why you did it? But I'm thinking you'd have to gut the tailpipes as well, that inner diameter is small and would block off flow. I found a max effort 35x cam and he's running stepped longtube headers on it with a 3.5 inch collector lol. I've monkeyed around on my desktop dyno with the cam and it estimates that there is around 50 horsepower plus in the last 2k of power going from a longtube header with mufflers to a stepped race header. I'm not a fan of the 180 header look from the back and like the ANSA look, so maybe I'll have a local header builder weld a 3" setup back to the tailpipes, and either gut the ansas, or find another stainless set with the twin tailpipes that fits with the same look. I'll do some measurements between the rear a-arms when I get home, not sure this can even be done. Maybe if I flipped the u-joints?

I'm guessing the vendors never made this setup because all the money was in a tuned header like the 180 headers, or because it was impractical to get anything larger than a 2.5 inch diameter pipe around the suspension in the rear. I guess I'll do some more searching on here.