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Flowmaster Muffler/Exhaust mods?

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Old 06-28-2010, 07:10 PM
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Default Flowmaster Muffler/Exhaust mods?

I'm thinking about going with the after cat 3" pipe, with the dual 2.5" tips with the 80 series Camaro Muffler (crossflow, 3" in / dual 2.5" out) . Is anyone running this combo, any draw backs I should know about?
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Has anyone tried this setup?
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i think i saw this set up on youtube on a JK,

i liked it, just havent got around to getting it done yet, weighing all my options first
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I had 3" to a magnaflow and 3" straight out the back high clearance. I had a ton of popping and seat-of-the-pants LOSS of power. I would talk to some of the exhaust manufactures and see what they have to say, but I think the 3.8 likes alittle back pressure.

I now have a 2 1/2" to a walker "quietflow 3", sounds and runs great...
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Indeed, you need some back pressure (resistance) or you loose more than you're trying to achieve. Even a monster diesel needs a little, without they loose as much as 10% on the bottom end.
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Originally Posted by Baldguy01
Indeed, you need some back pressure (resistance) or you loose more than you're trying to achieve. Even a monster diesel needs a little, without they loose as much as 10% on the bottom end.
It isn't back pressure that is needed it is a size of exhaust tube that assures exhaust velocity.

There isn't any reason to have anything larger than a 2.5" pipe, single in and single out. Anything larger and you lose exhaust velocity and exhaust gas scavenging from the cylinder. A 2.5" single outlet system is good to about 250hp and you need to do a lot of work to push that kind of power out of the JK's 3.8l engine.
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to do a dual exhaust like that you may want to think of doing a 2.5" inlet with 2" or 2.25" dual outlet. And at that those diameter outlets may be to big. You will get loss of back pressure and reduce torque and hp. I wouldn't do a dual exhaust. I relocated my muffler with a flowmaster super 44 and i noticed a drop in power due to backpressure.
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Originally Posted by kabookie10
to do a dual exhaust like that you may want to think of doing a 2.5" inlet with 2" or 2.25" dual outlet. And at that those diameter outlets may be to big.
It isn't back pressure but exhaust velocity. You are correct in your assertion that those diameter outlets would be too large for a dual outlet exhaust for the JK. The correct diameter outlets for a dual outlet exhaust would be 1.75" diameter which would totally remove any cool factor.
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Originally Posted by Baldguy01
Indeed, you need some back pressure (resistance) or you loose more than you're trying to achieve. Even a monster diesel needs a little, without they loose as much as 10% on the bottom end.
Might wanna stick to gasoline performance theory.
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Originally Posted by patracy
Might wanna stick to gasoline performance theory.
Yes, in a normally aspirated engine.


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