curious, why so many lt1/ls1 owners here
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Originally posted by 2000 SS
Your stock WS6 catback (the one with one round tip on each side) is not a mandrel bent exhaust. Want to find out how? Go underneath your car and look at the bend on top of the rear axle. That crimping you see there is NOT a mandrel bend. If it was, it would be smooth. It's also a 2.75 diameter intermediate pipe, unlike the optional 345hp package which has a 3 inch pipe.
Some cars dyno higher than others, key statement here being
Relative to a standard SS, Z28, WS6 or TA .
Your stock WS6 catback (the one with one round tip on each side) is not a mandrel bent exhaust. Want to find out how? Go underneath your car and look at the bend on top of the rear axle. That crimping you see there is NOT a mandrel bend. If it was, it would be smooth. It's also a 2.75 diameter intermediate pipe, unlike the optional 345hp package which has a 3 inch pipe.
Some cars dyno higher than others, key statement here being
Relative to a standard SS, Z28, WS6 or TA .
You should really go out and do a little more research before trying to tell me what my car has. Also just for YOUR information....the entire catback on ALL 96+ F-bodies is MANDREL bent ( i assume 93-02 but i don't know for sure).....
I have a 96 WS6 and a 00 V6 Firebird sitting in my driveway and the ENTIRE catback is MANDREL bent. There is no crimping....hence the name mandrel bent.
I could care less what the diameter of the pipe is....fact is a stock to slighly modded LS1 DOESN"T NEED a bigger intermediate pipe. Thats why gains with aftermarket exhaust are insignificant.
Not until you get heads/cam do you need a killer exhaust setup.
Peace out
Last edited by JamRWS6; May 28, 2003 at 08:49 PM.
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Re: my conclusions...
Originally posted by bhobson333
I started this thread:
https://my350z.com/forum/motorsports/30641-took-a-z28-today.html
and it spiraled out of control and was closed before I had a chance to post what I learned or think I learned:
1) I think the reason there are so many posts here about races with Camaros is first because there are so many of them, and second because the typical Camaro driver is more likely to challenge us, to give us a race. They buy the car because they like to play and they're not afraid to give us a go. I applaud them for that.
2) Before I started that thread I didn't know an lt1 from an ls1 from a hole in the ground. I guess the lt1's are older and not as fast and a decent match for us at least in a straight-line and the ls1s are newer and faster and will hand us our *** unless they're not really racing. I raced an lt1.
3) (and you'll have to excuse me for voicing my honest opinion here) you Camaro drivers are spending WAY too much time and energy on the 350Z forum. We like having other-car owners here, and we like the sanity check and BS meter, but when a thread has way more posts from "other car" owners than from "this car" owners and degenerates into a detailed lesson on the minute details of the variances in the "other car", then something is wrong. When this happens in thread after thread then something is very wrong. Do many threads in the Camaro forums spiral off into the similarities and differences between the engines and other performance characteristics in 350Zs and Maximas and Infinity G35s? I kind of doubt it. If I wanted to learn all that much detail about your cars then I would go to your forums.
FWIW
I started this thread:
https://my350z.com/forum/motorsports/30641-took-a-z28-today.html
and it spiraled out of control and was closed before I had a chance to post what I learned or think I learned:
1) I think the reason there are so many posts here about races with Camaros is first because there are so many of them, and second because the typical Camaro driver is more likely to challenge us, to give us a race. They buy the car because they like to play and they're not afraid to give us a go. I applaud them for that.
2) Before I started that thread I didn't know an lt1 from an ls1 from a hole in the ground. I guess the lt1's are older and not as fast and a decent match for us at least in a straight-line and the ls1s are newer and faster and will hand us our *** unless they're not really racing. I raced an lt1.
3) (and you'll have to excuse me for voicing my honest opinion here) you Camaro drivers are spending WAY too much time and energy on the 350Z forum. We like having other-car owners here, and we like the sanity check and BS meter, but when a thread has way more posts from "other car" owners than from "this car" owners and degenerates into a detailed lesson on the minute details of the variances in the "other car", then something is wrong. When this happens in thread after thread then something is very wrong. Do many threads in the Camaro forums spiral off into the similarities and differences between the engines and other performance characteristics in 350Zs and Maximas and Infinity G35s? I kind of doubt it. If I wanted to learn all that much detail about your cars then I would go to your forums.
FWIW
Secondly, LS1.com gets its fair share of discussion regarding other platforms, and the details of their engines. This year, it has tended to be the FD, RX-7. Those threads went the same way they do here, the "forum car" had a race with an "outsider" and posted a kill. People who own the "outsider" car see the post and question its validity. Then commences the pissing contest. It is the same on every forum that I have seen, the only thing that differs is the platforms being compared.
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