So I've been back and forth with supercharger/rear mount turbo/low mount twin turbos/single turbo/bigger heads/snakes on my v8 and I've seen most people do the standard flip the manifolds up or forward and join the exhaust from each side into a common t3 or T4 flange, then hero/success/boost/instant 9 second 1/4.
Like what's shown below....
PROBLEM.....I don't have room for any of that.
I've been looking at pictures of the old buick grand national and they did it differently... In case you didn't know, they take one bank from the driver's side, feed it under the engine and then send it back into the header on the passenger side. Well, it looks like this.
My brain likes option 1 with two sides merging into one. I like it better from a tuning aspect. I don't know why, my brain just likes it.
Option 2 seems like the passenger side is going to see something different than the driver's side. The entire driver side exhaust gets dumped into the passenger side while it's coming out of the head.
My brain is telling me it should make no difference 1 or 2 because pressure is pressure, but I wanted to ask the question anyways. Do buick GN people have special tuning considerations because of the way the exhaust combines or is it not anything to worry about? I mean it obviously works because GNX's ruled the Earth..
Like what's shown below....
PROBLEM.....I don't have room for any of that.
I've been looking at pictures of the old buick grand national and they did it differently... In case you didn't know, they take one bank from the driver's side, feed it under the engine and then send it back into the header on the passenger side. Well, it looks like this.
My brain likes option 1 with two sides merging into one. I like it better from a tuning aspect. I don't know why, my brain just likes it.
Option 2 seems like the passenger side is going to see something different than the driver's side. The entire driver side exhaust gets dumped into the passenger side while it's coming out of the head.
My brain is telling me it should make no difference 1 or 2 because pressure is pressure, but I wanted to ask the question anyways. Do buick GN people have special tuning considerations because of the way the exhaust combines or is it not anything to worry about? I mean it obviously works because GNX's ruled the Earth..
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