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Old Sep 17, 2004 | 10:56 PM
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Track times - cutout experimentation

13.5@103 2.0 60'
13.5@103 1.9 60'
13.5@103 2.0 60' - cutout open
13.4@103 1.9 60' - cutout closed
13.5@103 2.0 60'

90 degrees
85% humidity
29.94 pressure

28psi in the BFG drags dead hooking every time (no burnouts, just peeled out to clean them off).

I posted this in LT1 tech because there's so many questions asking if cutouts gain HP. Well, I answered that question. You do the math.
Old Sep 17, 2004 | 11:36 PM
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Re: Track times - cutout experimentation

Not much change at all. But you already have a fairly free flowing hooker exhaust so I suppose any gains (if any) would be minimal...
Old Sep 17, 2004 | 11:43 PM
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Re: Track times - cutout experimentation

wheere did you put the cutout? if i had them i would put them right before my cats, and right after headers!!
Old Sep 18, 2004 | 12:21 AM
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Re: Track times - cutout experimentation

I have no cats. The cutout is right after the Y-pipe.

I didn't gain any trap speed which means I didn't gain any HP, so I basically just lost low end torque which was shown in my 60' time.
Old Sep 18, 2004 | 12:26 AM
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shoulda put the cut-out closer to the muffler
Old Sep 18, 2004 | 12:45 AM
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Re: Track times - cutout experimentation

No flame intended here, but just because your set-up responded this way, doesn't mean other people and their set-ups might not have different results.
Old Sep 18, 2004 | 01:00 AM
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Re: Track times - cutout experimentation

Originally Posted by Z-RATED94
No flame intended here, but just because your set-up responded this way, doesn't mean other people and their set-ups might not have different results.
So you're saying another bolt-on car is going to gain something? My point is, the Hooker is already so free flowing that the cutout is useless for me.

The cutout exits under the rear passenger hump in the floorboard BTW, sorry should have clarified that.
Old Sep 18, 2004 | 01:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Cmr0z28
So you're saying another bolt-on car is going to gain something? My point is, the Hooker is already so free flowing that the cutout is useless for me.

The cutout exits under the rear passenger hump in the floorboard BTW, sorry should have clarified that.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. Bolt ons can mean many things. Someone with another 20 HP worth of bolt ons might cut some ET by having the cut-out open. It's to bad it didn't help you out, but it might in the future with any other upgrades you might add.
Old Sep 18, 2004 | 01:31 AM
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Re: Track times - cutout experimentation

Well yeah I know that.

When I say a bolt-on car, I'm talking about one that already has a cat-back.
Old Sep 18, 2004 | 01:34 AM
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OK then, talk to you later.
Old Sep 18, 2004 | 03:45 AM
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Re: Track times - cutout experimentation

i too saw no gains with my cutout open.

and i have longtubes, no cats, CAI, drag radials, and a catback.


i'm sure a cammed car would see a difference. as a matter of fact, i know a 98 camaro that ran 12.5 through true duals, and 12.2 with dual cut-outs, 10 inches behind the collector. but it has a cam. but the runs were on different days. so...isn't totally accurate.
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