stacks on a hemi.
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catback exhaust...thats all they did?!!!
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Because to make it look worth a damn, you'd need decent size piping and with a shorter distance and bigger pipe, the exhaust pulse timing and scavanging would be fu*ked...
And I think the modern Lil Red Express looks like chit, you need the step side bed and woodgrain to pull off the stacks:
And I think the modern Lil Red Express looks like chit, you need the step side bed and woodgrain to pull off the stacks:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I really liked the new version, that's why I mentioned the Dakota bed in an earlier post, and I'd never put them on my truck even if it were diesel...although I was thinking about putting stacks on when I build my mudder, to keep them up outta the water.
Anyway, so if I understand correctly, it is just the design of this particular motor that needs more back pressure? And with that said, as ridiculous as it may sound, hypothetically, if you were to run exhaust all the way back to the rear bumper almost, and then loop back around up to the back of the cab and up the stacks, then it should be better and able to use the huge stacks?? Again, nothing I'd do, just helping OP come up with ways it may work if he so desires
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Anyway, so if I understand correctly, it is just the design of this particular motor that needs more back pressure? And with that said, as ridiculous as it may sound, hypothetically, if you were to run exhaust all the way back to the rear bumper almost, and then loop back around up to the back of the cab and up the stacks, then it should be better and able to use the huge stacks?? Again, nothing I'd do, just helping OP come up with ways it may work if he so desires
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Otherwise, I'd say its your truck, your paying for it, do what makes YOU happy. If you like like it and you want it then who cares your the one that has to live with it. Its still a lot less played out then ...cough..rockstars...
