Open header

[9camaro9]

Is it bad to run open header?

[99v6cam]

depends on how long and how you drive. If you get on it alot you tend to get valve float which isn't good for your motor. If you drive around 3000rpm tops, as long as you aren't melting anything with the exhaust heat it'll be fine.

[BLLDOGG]

i can see some problems coming up like things getting too hot, burning wires underneath the car or o2 sensors not getting proper readings from air flowing back up into the headers cause of terbulance.

[Rowdy Burns]

your biggest concern should be cold air coming back up the primary and bending your valves.

[9camaro9]

so another words should i put them back on?

[BLLDOGG]

yes but were you asking about running with no headers or open headers cause from your last comment, i got confused.

[L36Camaro]

Originally posted by BLLDOGG:
cause from your last comment, i got confused.

Me too

[9camaro9]

i just took them off a couple hours ago.....and was wondering if it was bad to run them like that?


after the few comments i got i put them back on. But it still sounds the same?? did i not tighten it enough?

[BLLDOGG]

if in following correctly, no, there wont be much of a sound difference from no headers and open headers.

[9camaro9]

???? I have headers on, i unhooked them from the y pipe, after the few comments i got from the post i decided to hook them back up to the y pipe. After i did so i started the car and it sounds as if theyre still unhooked from the y pipe even though they are hooked back up? What did i do wrong

[BLLDOGG]

ok.....i think for a second, we thought you took the headers off. yeah, there isnt going to be much of a change from open headers to running with a ypipe and you would notice if it wasnt tight enough, it would rattle like hell and or there would be the exhaust leak tick.

[9camaro9]

its pretty damn tight do you have to tighten each screw equally so it gets a good seal or did i not align it very well when i was putting it back on?

Im just wondering why it sounds like im running open headers when all of the pipes are hooked back up?

[Rowdy Burns]

RUNNING AN OPEN Y-PIPE SOUNDS PRETTY SIMILAR TO RUNNING OPEN PRIMARIES.

that's why it sounds similar.

[9camaro9]

Originally posted by Rowdy Burns:
RUNNING AN OPEN Y-PIPE SOUNDS PRETTY SIMILAR TO RUNNING OPEN PRIMARIES.

that's why it sounds similar.

??????????? I am not talking about that. As I have stated above I connected the headers back up and it still sounds as if theres no exhaust on.

[Red]

"..are you not understanding the words that are coming out of my mouth?"

I have re read that 3 times and i am still confused as to what you are doing. So first you had them completely off, then you hooked up your complete exhaust system and it sounds the same?