03-21-2018, 09:21 AM
The downside to the wraps is that they tend to hold moisture and rust out headers pretty fast. A heat shield for the starter is definitely something I should have thrown on but there would be no room for anything with the steering box. Having to thread both the battery cable and shifter cable through the tubes meant it was only a matter of time before I was replacing those after getting stranded.
I'll lose like 15-20 ft/lbs of torque on the low end and make the same horse power but I'm done playing this expensive ass game. Schumacher makes a Tri-Y header that flows better than shorties but with all the merging and lack of equal length tubes means you lose some of the benefits but not nearly as much. Trickflow is making some great out of the box aluminum heads for this engine finally. They'll be out later this year and they're on the radar. If I pull the trigger on engine 2.0 (aluminum heads, roller cam, roller rockers) I'll probably buy those too. But that's wayyyyyy in the future. These shorties should be fine for 400-450 hp which I won't be making ... yet.
I'll lose like 15-20 ft/lbs of torque on the low end and make the same horse power but I'm done playing this expensive ass game. Schumacher makes a Tri-Y header that flows better than shorties but with all the merging and lack of equal length tubes means you lose some of the benefits but not nearly as much. Trickflow is making some great out of the box aluminum heads for this engine finally. They'll be out later this year and they're on the radar. If I pull the trigger on engine 2.0 (aluminum heads, roller cam, roller rockers) I'll probably buy those too. But that's wayyyyyy in the future. These shorties should be fine for 400-450 hp which I won't be making ... yet.