HRD - Jeezus! I'm gonna need a dang degree in cresent wrench engineering before this is all over!
OK, lemme get this straight - I'm dumping the manifolds in favor of headers because the manifolds create too much turbulence & tend to impede performance because this turbulence forces exhaust back into the cylinders. However, I want to add a crossover downstream to increase turbulence to enhance the performance? God, I love this stuff!
I went to Summit & read some of their marketing copy to get a quick feel for what's going on here & will do some additional research but the question that comes immediately to mind is this: is there anything special about the X junction itself or can I manufacture one here? Sounds pretty daunting when Hedman says stuff like their crossovers are "tangentially sequenced." Doh! I think I left my tangental sequencer in my other pants!
I'm not even sure where I can pull off the junction. If I run individual pipes from the headers straight back into the elbow that'll turn up into the stacks, I can have enuff linear room for the mufflers/resonator. I haven't measured it yet but the distance isn't that great. I suppose that I could run the from the collectors to the X & put the resonators immediately downstream of the X junction right into the elbow.
Well, I'm just thinking on paper, here. What I gotta do is pour a glass of JD & go out and crawl around under the old girl for awhile, but at present it's dark & raining so I guess I'll just settle for the glass of JD.
Ya'll sure have given me some stuff to think about! I appreciate it. Keep the info coming. My brain hurts but I'm hoping it's growing pains!
THX.
