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| RE: Another Horsepower Question |
| By Gerry Proctor - 04/25/2003 7:29:26 AM; IP 207.133.188.254 |
Short answer -no.
Longer answer -not a lot...maybe 20 or 30 or so if you tuned for the mods. But the only way to tell is by scientific methods like a chassis dyno where you use a baseline measurement, make your mods, and do another run. Obviously you didn't do that so you have to deal with it on an objective basis. You could take it to the drag strip and gather scientific data but you still don't know where you started, only where you finished so you have no basis for identifying any proovable gain.
In the bigger picture, it really only depends on how it FEELS to you now. Do you have more torque where you want it and can you feel it in the seat of your pants?
The truth is that most of the mods that improve the breathing ability of the engine only pay off when you look at cam timing. The only time when you see big gains in intake, exhaust, and even cylinder heads is when the engine was being choaked by those things and limiting the potential of the camshaft. FEs, even in their most pedestrian configurations, have pretty good flowing intakes and heads. With few exceptions, the exhaust manifolds are fairly poor and you can see some gains in going to a free-flowing exhaust as you've done. But all the modifications that most folks make are cumulative and make their full contribution when you get to the heart of the matter and that's the cam. |
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