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09-26-2012, 09:21 AM | #3126 | |
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I call bull. I have an EQL and it sounds more like a porsche.... with these engines you usually dont get that raspy tone unless you have a catback exhaust that accentuates it. Xluben: I am also at the limits of my stock clutch. I held on at a 4th gear pass but with a rated 425-445wtq that occasionally drags would a 4 puck be enough or a 6 puck?
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09-26-2012, 09:34 AM | #3127 | |
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09-26-2012, 09:59 AM | #3128 | |
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09-26-2012, 10:00 AM | #3129 |
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Here's a photo of the header:
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09-26-2012, 10:02 AM | #3130 |
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I want photos of it wrapped like a mummy.... or video of you holding it wrapped while rapping!
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09-26-2012, 10:04 AM | #3131 |
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09-26-2012, 10:12 AM | #3132 | |
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09-26-2012, 10:18 AM | #3133 |
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That looks like a lot of work. Why did you choose to wrap the runners separately? I would think that wrapping the pairs together would retain heat better (less surface area, hot pipes next to each other, etc). When TopSpeed tested the Invidia headers they wrapped them in pairs, but I also see many people wrapping them separately, so I really don't know which is best. How much wrap did you use to do all that?
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09-26-2012, 10:20 AM | #3134 |
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09-26-2012, 11:00 AM | #3135 |
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09-26-2012, 11:10 AM | #3136 |
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How much of the wrap is left? Can one roll do headers + uppipe + downpipe?
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09-26-2012, 11:27 AM | #3137 |
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Nope. Not even close. I barely, barely had enough to do just the header with one 50'x2" roll and I basically wrapped it in a way that I would use the least wrap. You probably want two rolls to do all that and you could do more overlapping on the headers too.
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09-26-2012, 11:38 AM | #3138 | |
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09-26-2012, 11:42 AM | #3139 | |
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09-26-2012, 11:43 AM | #3140 | |
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09-26-2012, 12:55 PM | #3141 |
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Huh, maybe wrapping the pipes together, like I did, actually uses more wrap. Do you have a thread for your wrapping? That would be a good place for those photos. I still don't really know which way is better, but I think they both work fine. Wrapping each pipe individually does look cooler.
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09-26-2012, 12:56 PM | #3142 |
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Here's the wrapped photo of mine:
More pictures and initial review here: http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show....php?t=2412751 I'll try to get some videos up sometime soon. |
09-26-2012, 01:34 PM | #3143 |
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Well done sir. I can't wait to hear this thing.
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09-26-2012, 02:23 PM | #3144 |
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EL headers definitely do not sound like a Honda. You can still pick out the boxer tone in it, it's just not as obvious. I will most definitely go to an EL header eventually. If price isn't a problem I'll be doing the Killer B unit for sure. If price plays into it too much it'll be the Tomei. From all the sound clips I've heard it seems like as long as there is a resonator and muffler with the EL header you'll usually get good sound. The only ones I've really not liked are unresonated exhausts.
I'm also anxious to see how this one sounds compared to what is on the car now. Last edited by sjs0433; 09-26-2012 at 02:48 PM. |
09-26-2012, 02:50 PM | #3145 | |
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I'll be anxious to hear the sound clips then. All of the EL headers seem to sound slightly different front one another if you ask me. I've yet to hear a clip of the Killer B unit that I didn't like. Haven't heard many Perrin clips I did like. Definitely didn't like the APS either. Interested to see where this one falls.
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09-26-2012, 04:19 PM | #3148 | |
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09-26-2012, 05:45 PM | #3149 | |
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09-26-2012, 06:11 PM | #3150 |
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I wrapped mine together and not the individual runs. I agree with what you are thinking about retaining heat that way. It was also less wrap and less work in the end. Ideally, you are trying to retain the heat from the entire unit and not each individual pipe...so it just make sense to me to wrap them together.
With the single, I would imagine it would have more of a Honda sound than utilizing the dual exhaust setup. However, even those setups sound like a Honda to me under load with a EL header setup. There is no doubt that EL produces more power though. |
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