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Re: Should I add a Header?

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Should I add a Header?
From: "Mick T" <mickth@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 22:04:19
Would it be worth the effort of polishing/honing the inside of the stock 
mainfold? To make the path smoother. Also, how much would it cost to "Hot 
Coat" the header or manifold?


>
>Sorry, but headers are almost always significantly louder than cast exhaust
>manifolds.  The thinner wall of the header allows a lot more of the noise
>of exhaust blasts (at the head, where the forces are most pointed and
>loudest) to transmit--regardless of exhaust pipe, muffler, etc.
>
>Headers are louder than stock manifolds.

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