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Old May 18, 2008 | 02:32 PM
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I have a TN kit on my z and i was thinkin about doing 1 single 3" straight pipe from the downpipe back. Any thoughts on this. I searched but after a couple of pages, i got bored.

Obviously its gonna be louad and i will shoot out flames but that doesnt concern me. My concerns are performance. Will this affect anything negativly
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Old May 18, 2008 | 04:54 PM
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just noise thats all, and the smells could be too much to take if standing behind the car.
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do it!
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Old May 19, 2008 | 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by 350 Rookie
I have a TN kit on my z and i was thinkin about doing 1 single 3" straight pipe from the downpipe back. Any thoughts on this. I searched but after a couple of pages, i got bored.

Obviously its gonna be louad and i will shoot out flames but that doesnt concern me. My concerns are performance. Will this affect anything negativly
Turbines like no pack pressure. So bigger piping or no piping altogether is better.
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Old May 19, 2008 | 01:37 PM
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i just installed my TN kit and did A 3.5" yea 3.5" single back and it is actually not that loud at all at normal driveing but in boost saounds pretty dam good, if you want i can post up some pics,
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Old May 19, 2008 | 02:24 PM
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I had that done for about 2 days before I realized how annoying it was. It sounded like crap.
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Originally Posted by Ahsmo
Turbines like no pack pressure. So bigger piping or no piping altogether is better.
I was looking at the keyboard and hoping that the P and the B were really close together.... but they aren't!

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Originally Posted by JETPILOT
I was looking at the keyboard and hoping that the P and the B were really close together.... but they aren't!

JET
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Originally Posted by JETPILOT
I was looking at the keyboard and hoping that the P and the B were really close together.... but they aren't!

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Give me a break its monday
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but back to the ? at hand you really cant get a straight pipe like your saying at the most i have a 25-30 degree angle on mine
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can you post pics and even vids? thanx
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Originally Posted by 350 Rookie
can you post pics and even vids? thanx
pics i can do vids nah my camera is pretty shatty
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Old May 27, 2008 | 09:59 AM
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this is a roughed version the hangers are temp for now but the rest is pretty close im getting some more 3.5" pipe and im goingt o bend it all in one piece so there are no weld marks as you can tell in the one pic it has a leak as you can see black sout
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Old May 27, 2008 | 12:59 PM
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Looks like you have an exhaust leak.
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Old May 27, 2008 | 01:23 PM
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yea i do it is little but like i said i just orderd 8 foot of 3.5" so i can bend it and not have any welds in it
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thats not bad. However i am not putting a muffler on.

Im just takin a pipe and gettin it bent all the way to the back and gettin the end of the exhaust cut at an angle.
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Old May 27, 2008 | 02:04 PM
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Kinda like this but not stickin out that much

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Old May 27, 2008 | 02:15 PM
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starting at the headers how much weight savings do u think that be over stock? and would this negatively benefit a stock n/a motor?
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Old May 27, 2008 | 02:15 PM
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it deff wouldnt benefit an NA motor. but turbo, it will. You will lose torque if you straight pipe na.
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Old May 27, 2008 | 02:19 PM
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so best thing would just be test pipes or HFC?
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